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Financial Planning for Life After Work

We work alongside professionals
to get you to and through retirement, ethically

Independent recognition matters to us

Our approach to financial planning and ethical investing has been recognised by independent organisations committed to transparency and responsible advice.

Winner Mindful Money Awards - 2023, 2024 and 2025

Who we work with

We work with professionals and couples, including managers, scientists, doctors, engineers, public servants, IT specialists and other analytical thinkers, who value expert guidance and thoughtful decision-making.

Many of our clients have paid off their mortgage and are focused on how their savings and investments can support the life they want, both as they approach retirement and once they are living it.

How we help

We provide thoughtful financial planning for life after work - bringing together investment strategy, retirement planning, and ongoing advice in a way that’s clear, ethical, and grounded.

Financial Planning

Understanding your position, clarifying priorities, and creating a plan that brings everything together

Retirement and Investment Planning

Structuring and managing investments to support income, flexibility and peace of mind

Ongoing Advice and Review

Staying alongside you as life changes, markets move and decisions evolve

How we work

We start by understanding you

We take the time to understand your goals, priorities, constraints, and what matters most to you.

We create and implement a clear plan

Bringing together financial planning, retirement strategy, and investments into a coherent whole.

We review and adapt over time

Staying alongside you as life changes, markets move, and decisions evolve.

  

Paul, Carey and Peter at the Mindful Money Awards

We’re a small, experienced team of financial planning professionals who work closely together to support our clients over the long term, particularly as they move into and through retirement

Carey - Managing Director, Financial Planner and Ethical Investment Adviser
Paul - Financial Planner and Ethical Investment Adviser
Peter - Financial Planner and Ethical Investment Adviser

What guides our work

Ethical investing and financial planning means different things to different people. We work with our clients to understand what matters to them and reflect that in their financial planning and investment decisions.

Integrity

Honesty

Trust

Respect

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Planning 40-65

Planning after 65

9 Steps to Financial Planning

Insights and Resources

We regularly publish articles and commentary on investing, retirement, risk, and financial decision-making.

What ethical investing can and cannot do

This is the final post in a three-part series on evolving ethical concern. It is important to be clear about limits. Ethical investing cannot fix global politics. It cannot force cooperation betweenRead more

What does “US exposure” really mean in your portfolio?

Over the past year, more and more people have asked some version of the same question. “How exposed am I to the US?” It’s a fair question. The US dominates global sharemarkets, US politicsRead more

Maybe this time is different - Part One

Most years since 2009, we have attended the Portfolio Construction Forum, a conference based in Sydney that we follow each year. It is one of the better investment conferences on the calendar. TheRead more

When the rules turn out not to mean very much

Over the last couple of years, we have been having a particular kind of conversation more often. A client will ask whether they own Palantir. Or Tesla. Or how much of their portfolio is sitting inRead more

KiwiSaver 2040: Where the System Could Be Heading — and What That Means for You

Over the next 15 years, KiwiSaver is likely to become a far more significant pillar of New Zealand's retirement system. Several converging trends, demographic, political, economic and technological,Read more

Spending is changing. What does that mean for your investments?

Recently, I signed up to a spending monitoring and budgeting app for $120 a year. I did it partly out of curiosity, and partly because I wanted to test it properly before ever considering whether itRead more

When self-enrichment and corruption are openly defended

This is the second post in a series looking at how ethical concern is changing. The first explored why many people have broadened their focus beyond climate alone. Over the past year, a differentRead more

Why doing nothing is sometimes the right financial decision

There’s a lot of pressure around money to do something. Change funds. Switch strategies. React to headlines. Tidy things up. Fix whatever feels uncomfortable in the moment. Doing nothing can feel lRead more

Why concern about climate change has shifted, not disappeared

This is the first in a short series of three blog posts exploring how ethical concern is evolving and what that means for how people think about money. At the Mindful Money Awards in June 2025, whenRead more

KiwiSaver’s Growing Pains: The Issues Emerging as the System Reaches Adulthood

KiwiSaver has moved from scrappy teenager to central pillar of New Zealanders’ financial lives. With nearly 3.3 million members and rapidly growing balances, it is no longer a nice extra. It is aRead more

Carey and Susie – My journey in ‘mastering’ AI

I didn’t really get AI for a long time. Not because I wasn’t interested, but because everything I tried either didn’t work very well or didn’t actually make my work better. When ChatGPT wasRead more

KiwiSaver vs Australian Superannuation: Two Systems, Two Philosophies, Two Very Different Outcomes

KiwiSaver and Australian Superannuation are often compared as if they were two versions of the same idea, but in reality they represent completely different philosophies about how people should prepaRead more

Our Community Involvement

"I have worked with Moneyworks for many years and value the trusted financial advice they provide. Their advice is always timely, tailored to my circumstances, and educational. I value the relationship and the consistently sound guidance that underpins it."

Richard Murcott - Wellington

 

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