by Elise Vine | Oct 6, 2021 | Blog
World Financial Planning Day is a global event, the aim being to raise awareness of the value of financial planning. As you’ll know if you follow our blog, we’re always on about this! We want you to understand your financial situation, and to feel empowered when it...
by Elise Vine | Oct 1, 2021 | Newsletters
Hi there! Here we are in October already – wow! It’s been quite a month. Great that Auckland has made it down to Alert Level 3. All going well, Auckland may be back at Level 2 after the announcement on the 4th October. The “feel” of this latest lockdown...
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 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...