Your Money With Mary Holm

Investment author and columnist Mary Holm talks to Jesse Mulligan every fortnight about her top tips for how to make your money work.

Hosted by Mary Holm and Jesse Mulligan

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Find out why your KiwiSaver statement is a must read!

It's that time of the year when your KiwiSaver annual statement comes out. Mary Holm explains why you should read it!
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Does the Government help or hinder KiwiSaver?

Find out how respective Governments have helped or hindered KiwiSaver. Mary explains how over the years most government changes to KiwiSaver have made it less attractive.

Tips and tricks to managing debt

Mary Holm joins Jesse to talk about how to manage debt.

Financial Quiz with Mary Holm

How well do you know your money matters? Mary Holm has a quiz to put your financial knowledge to the test.

Mary's Financial Knowledge Quiz

This week, a quiz to test your financial literacy. How many questions can you get right?

How will KiwiSaver changes in the Budget affect you?

The 2025 Budget has just been released, Mary Holm gives her first impressions focusing on the changes to KiwiSaver.

Budget 2025 changes to Kiwsaver

Mary Holm talks to Jesse about the Government's changes to KiwiSaver in today's Budget.

Will Government change its KiwiSaver contributions? If so, how should it do it?

Let's talk about Your Money and that means Mary Holm is in the studio. So will the Government change its KiwiSaver contributions - and if so, how should it do it?

Potential changes to KiwiSaver and what it means for you

A listener asks: will the Government change its KiwiSaver contributions - and if so, how should it do it? Finance Minister Nicola Willis is not ruling out changes to the Kiwisaver subsidy. Should the Government even do this? And if they do, what does it mean for you and I?

The wisdom of our listeners!

Today Mary accesses the wisdom of the crowd! Recently she asked Afternoons listeners to write in with the best financial decision they ever made. We got so many responses that Mary has decided to sift through them and see what important and useful information she can find and what it tells us bout managing money.

Turbulent Markets and how to navigate them

Mary Holm discusses the recent global market downturn and uncertainty caused by economic policy decisions. Mary also looks at a new Mindful Money and RIAA (Responsible Investment Association Australasia) survey about how New Zealanders view ethical inbvestment.

Getting wise with your mortgage

In this episode Mary looks at ways to get wise with your mortgage including repayment advice and explainers on all the different types of mortgages.

Keep contributing to KiwiSaver through thick and thin.

Today Mary looks at KiwiSaver and answer a listener's question about the current economic climate and how one should manage their KiwiSaver.

The 3 most important things to do with your Kiwiwsaver

Very quickly, here's Mary's top three tips: 1. Join. And keep contributing. 2. Use a higher-risk fund – usually. 3. Choose a low-fee fund.

A bit of bitcoin?

Money expert Mary Holm discusses the recent developments in bitcoin.

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