Until a month or two ago I had never heard of this Aliexpress 2.0 but it feels like Temu has exploded overnight. To be fair I’m mostly oblivious to the movers and shakers in the pre-garbage consumer space. Temu first launched in the United States in September 2022 followed shortly after with a superbowl ad […]
Ryan Reynolds isn’t just Mr Hollywood, he’s a serious deal maker, investor and founder. . Here’s a breakdown of his most notable business deals and investments, including his own company, Maximum Effort. Maximum Effort Founded: 2018 Industry: Media and Marketing Film Production: “Free Guy” and “The Adam Project,” both of which were commercial successes. The […]
Some of the best and brightest the world has to offer gathered to hear what Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had to say at the 2024 SIEPR Economic Summit at Stanford. He was asked just how could graduates find success. “For all of you Stanford students,” he said, “I wish upon you ample doses of pain […]
While Elon Musk might have no problem ruffling feathers, another tech billionaire, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang seems to be gaining a cult-like following for his more pragmatic approach to multi-modal disruption and media relations. His GPU company is like the modern equivalent of selling spades at a goldmine. Not only for gaming but […]
Anne woke up on 1 January feeling positive and motivated (and just a tad hungover), saying to herself “This is going to be an awesome year!” She’d been thinking about her goals and now it was time to lock in her New Year’s resolutions and start making progress! That positive feeling and motivation lasted all […]
A new star was born in January when a little known developer Pocket Pair dropped its new game ‘Palworld’ onto game marketplaces Steam, Epic and Xbox Game Pass. The influences are clear, and the casual description of the game prior to release was “Pokemon but with guns” or in other words “Pokemon if they lived […]
In the vast and murky landscape of blockchain technology, crypto and fiat currency movements a New Zealand company is working on a new era of financial empowerment for everyday users through their innovative platform, Roundable. And what started as a bold vision to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the blockchain realm is […]
AI is here to stay and will impact the way we work and communicate; it is also likely to become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. As an owner of multiple businesses, it is critical for me to both understand AI and guide our customers on this journey. In order to ensure we remained […]
The New Zealand property market has always been characterised by its cyclical nature, with peaks and troughs occurring through each property cycle. Yet, beneath these fluctuations lies a fundamental aspect that has remained constant over the years: an undersupply of housing. This persistent demand-supply imbalance has resulted in property remaining a historically solid long-term investment. […]
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true: Leaders are made rather than born.” – Warren Bennis “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple. “If you are not embarrassed […]
Every cloud has a silver lining. So whether or not the sun sets on cryptocurrencies, its underlying technology, blockchain, has a bright future beyond just coins. Sam Bankman-Fried was the darling of the cryptocurrency world, then he became its black sheep. In November of this year, the cryptocurrency company he founded, Futures Exchange (known widely […]
The property market has changed a lot for investors over the last few years and while some things have become a lot harder with old properties, there are more and more reasons to go brand spanking new and you don’t get much more brand spanking new than off-the-plan. Here are 7 reasons why investing in […]
Property investing has long been a retirement strategy for many New Zealanders. So many factors seem to have made it a crowd favourite and embedded it within a national psychology often spilling out at family events, barbecues and the water cooler. And there are probably many legacy reasons for this. Unlike so many asset classes, […]
While the property market has pulled back from its heady 2020 – 2021 rises and has come up against inflation, recession talk and a Reserve Bank with a big interest rate lever, there are some strong signs of improvement. Factors such as a strong labour market, increasing immigration, and a recovering global economy have contributed […]
‘What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.’ So said Buddha long ago and it still resonates just as much today as, at its heart, what the great man was talking about is that you can become what you want to be, just by thinking or behaving like […]
For a lot of New Zealand entrepreneurs and business owners, the prospect of selling into China and the wider Asia-Pacific region is a compelling market to scale, but it’s also filled with costly pitfalls for those that don’t get it right. To help navigate the nuances of this immense market, Kevin Sun co-founded Cross Culture […]
In our last issue, we published a quote from Bob Chapek about leadership in our success section. By the time you were reading it, his head was rolling and Bob Iger was retaking his throne after less than a year in retirement. I guess kicking your feet up in Hawaii gets boring fast. Chapek took […]
Over the last couple of years, economists have been able to sum up the sentiment of the New Zealand property market with a couple of simple acronyms. Last year we had good old FOMO (fear of missing out) as a big psychological driver for property prices and recently this has become FOOP (fear of overpaying). […]
The Centre of it all at Central Park The Residences at Central Park in Ellerslie is another stunning investment option by investor-focused developers, Safari Group. This 12-story building dedicates the four bottom floors to a hotel (Safari Group remains invested in the development via this hotel so they don’t just walk away at the end […]
A string of legislative changes have made investing in old housing stock less and less viable. Not only have investors lost the ability to deduct interest payments on old residential stock, but Healthy Homes upgrades and ongoing maintenance costs have eroded many investors’ love affair with residential property. But don’t worry, the honeymoon doesn’t need […]
Getting the most out your properties as an investor is one of your primary goals, the other is to provide a living situation so good it’s worth the extra dollar to live in it. Unfortunately though, not all renovations are made equal, and not all will provide you a return on the massive time and […]
New Zealand entrepreneurs, inventors and developers are doing incredible things right here right now. We have an incredible startup culture here, New Zealand is packed to the eyeballs with small teams doing awesome stuff. Unfortunately their accomplishments are too often going under our collective radars due to a deluge of doom and gloom from headlines […]
One of the really cool things about writing for M2 and M2woman is that you get to cover a wide range of subject matters. This means that you tend to build up a library of esoteric knowledge useful probably only for pub quiz (although geography is still my foil). It also means that you get […]
It’s been a bit of a roller coaster for landlords over the last little while. But despite a changing environment, property investing is still a top option for Kiwis wanting to invest for the long term whilst also helping to alleviate New Zealand’s accommodation shortage. Like anything though, it’s important to understand all of the […]
In Monopoly, there is a bit of a rigmarole to go through before being able to buy a hotel. You first have to own all of the properties in a colour group and then get to four houses on these properties before you can buy a hotel to swap them out with, allowing you to […]
While we’re freezing our butts off in WInter, Bill is celebrating summer with his latest book picks. How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It’s a tour […]
They stalk Wall Street looking for dodgy businesses to short, and business is booming. They have shaken finance to its very core with their larger than life attacks and prescience on where the market is going. Are they heroes or villains? Has morality ever even had a place in finance? Why should we start now? […]
There’s a lot of reasons why Parnell is considered one of the country’s top suburbs. It’s got history, it’s got character, great restaurants, boutiques, a location to die for and Double Grammer zoning. Being “affordable” is not one of those traits. Well, until now, thanks to one of New Zealand’s most respected investor-focused developers, Safari […]
Auckland’s oldest suburb is also one of Auckland’s hottest suburbs for countless reasons. Here are just a few. 1 – Prime Location Location is so important that eager real estate agents will often echo it three times but in Parnell’s case that is exactly the right assessment. Not only does Parnell have its own epicentre […]
While inflation has hit most sectors within New Zealand over the last couple of years, the impact on the cost of both residential and commercial building has been particularly profound. And of course, Gib board has become the poster child for this rise with desperate builders scrambling to find supply. A recent Trade Me auction […]
“Remember when we you couldn’t stop hearing about GameStop?” Few stories in recent memory shook the world of trading like the epic GameStop stock story from 2021. What started as an elaborate example of online trolling turned into a legitimate short squeeze of epic proportions, creating a truly fascinating, captivating and revealing event, a genuine […]
Believe it or not, if you are reading this, and you manage your investment property privately, you have probably experienced at least one of the following reasons as to why a professional agency is contracted to manage a private property. Over the last 5-6 years, and especially within the last few years, the industry has changed significantly. The recent […]
While there is plenty of media coverage about economic headwind on the horizon, the head of CMC Markets New Zealand, Chris Smith, is optimistic about the future. And he should know, with access to over 10,000 financial products, CMC covers the gamut of the trading world. We talk to Chris about the life of an […]
