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■ REVIEW: Crisis
Bollard gives fascinating insight to financial crisis

There’s no denying the global economy is in pretty bad shape and the forecasts for where it’s heading go from one extreme to the other. However, there are few people as well qualified to comment on the New Zealand economy as Dr Alan Bollard, governor of the Reserve Bank on New Zealand for a decade […]

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■ REVIEW: Shares
Making the most of your money

Business & money, NZ books

This is a revised edition of Martin Hawes’ best-selling book. It aims to help anyone make money on the sharemarket, no matter how experienced or inexperienced they might be. The author explains what he says are the seven secrets to becoming a successful investor and as with all his books, does it in plain English.

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■ REVIEW: Make Your Database Your Goldmine | 101 Quick Tips: Effective Communication
Practical guides in plain English

Advice, guides & self-help, Business & money

Debbie Mayo-Smith has written a lot of books on a lot of topics but all of them are aimed at making the reader more successful in their chosen field, and these offerings are no different. Sure, the titles do sound a lot like those spammy ads you stumble across online (“click here to buy now

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■ REVIEW: Rework
A pleasant surprise

Advice, guides & self-help, Business & money

I wasn’t quite sure was I was getting into when I picked up this book. It had a picture of a screwed up piece of paper on the cover, along with the bold claim: Change the way you work forever. Sure, the cynic in me thought here we go, another one of those books, full

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■ REVIEW: Plastic Spoons
High-achieving Kiwis tell how they did it

Business & money

Most of us dream about what we might do if we suddenly found ourselves wealthy: what we’d do with a big Lotto win or other unexpected windfall, how we’d live our lives if we had millions of dollars in the bank. For some Kiwis, that isn’t a dream, it’s a reality, and that reality is

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■ REVIEW: Save Money on your Mortgage
Expert shares his knowledge

Advice, guides & self-help, Business & money

What Martin Hawes doesn’t know about handling your finances isn’t worth knowing. This time around, in Save Money on Your Mortgage, he’s tackling what is most likely our biggest financial outlay, and our biggest debt: our mortgage. More specifically, he shows how we can save money on our mortgage. This is the updated version of

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■ REVIEW: Buying Your First Home
Good advice for home-buyers

Business & money

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the global credit crunch that is currently hitting us all but these tough economic times do have an upside for some. The experts are now saying housing affordability is at its best level since 2005 so if you’re in the the market for a house, now might be

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■ REVIEW: Pressing the Right Buttons
Importance of people skills recognised

Advice, guides & self-help, Business & money

Author Allison Mooney believes that even though we live in a wired world, having people skills is an absolute requirement for business success. This is the premise of her book Pressing the Right Buttons. I’m inclined to agree with her. During the past few months I’ve had a range of customer service issues with some

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■ REVIEW: Fl!p
Deserves a closer look

Business & money

Aussie business guru Peter Sheahan might be just 30 years old but he’s already built himself an impressive reputation in the business world as a consultant to some pretty major organisations, including L’Oreal, Fairfax, Google, Coca-Cola and BMW. There are plenty of books around that claim to offer some special insight into the world of

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■ REVIEW: Smart Moves
Safe as houses

Advice, guides & self-help, Business & money

With the current boisterous real estate market, you can understand why so many people see selling property as a good way to make a living. Smart Moves author Marnie Adams is one of New Zealand’s top real estate agents, selling more than $200,000,000 of residential property in just four years and in this book she

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