by Elise Vine | Sep 1, 2021 | Newsletters
Hi there! Well this certainly hasn’t been the month we expected! Back into a Level 4 lockdown, at the discovery of the Covid-19 Delta variant here in little old NZ! Are you ok? These lockdowns have massive impacts on our lives – for some of us it means no work or...
by Elise Vine | Aug 26, 2021 | Blog
What’s ahead? This lockdown has been easier for some of us to adjust to as we know what to expect, and that same knowledge of what is ahead is causing others distress. There is still uncertainty about how long we will be in Level 4 lockdown and how quickly we...
by Elise Vine | Aug 19, 2021 | Blog
OCR Update The OCR remained at 0.25% yesterday, as expected in light of the current Alert Level 4 lockdown. All indications were that it was going to rise at this announcement, but of course a nationwide lockdown changes things! The Governor indicated that the Reserve...
by Elise Vine | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog
Website updates! Here at Building on Basics we are all about empowering people to understand their finances. As part of that mission, we are adding a Glossary page to our website. We want our website to be an easy place to go for a whole lot of resources around...
by Elise Vine | Aug 4, 2021 | Blog
On Tuesday the Reserve Bank announced that an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) has been signed with the Minister of Finance regarding a macro-prudential policy. What this means is that along with the tightening of the responsible lending rules that have been...
