# Carl Thompson

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Should I be using a trust? When a family trust is the right move?

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A decade ago, as Opes Partners' Ed McKnight puts it, "every man and his dog had a trust." That default has quietly collapsed — three regulatory shifts (the Trusts Act 2019, the 39% trustee tax rate, and tighter IRD disclosure) have raised the bar for needing one. But every law-firm page online stil…

06/15/2026 NAS Whiting Field

Jamie Coffey (Director of Public Affairs), Christy Mason (Deputy Director of Public Affairs) and their guest Command Master Chief Carl Thompson, join PEP Talk with Meg to introduce the new CMC Carl Thompson to listeners to talk about his career, family and new responsiblities at NAS Whiting Field. …

Introducing Entity Management: your trust, your rental, your side business all in SortMe

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If you've got a trust, a rental or a side business, you know the March routine. Your accountant emails asking for the year's transactions, the rental statements, and "any receipts you've got." You lose a weekend exporting CSVs from three different banking logins and diving through 100,000 emails lo…

Your default savings account is leaking money: where to park your money in NZ in 2026

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A BNZ ad for a 1.6% "high-interest" savings account. That doesn't even keep pace with inflation. The default narrative is that a savings account means whatever your own bank put in front of you — and on the four big banks' everyday savings pages, you're looking at 0.05% to 0.40%. A household with $…

Why I left millions on the table | Carl Thompson | 2 Commas with Josh Comrie

Carl Thompson flew to Singapore with $3,000, shared a pullout bed with his co-founder in a room so small he could touch the wall sitting up, and cold-called New York at 2am because that's when the market was awake. That was the start of TradeGecko. He left the company two and a half years in, halfw…

Mortgage refix or refinance? Your options when your fixed rate ends

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Your fixed mortgage rate has an end date, and there's a decent chance it lands between now and next winter — 68% of New Zealand's fixed-rate home loans are due to reprice in the 12 months from early 2026. A few weeks out, your bank will email you. The email offers a refix: pick a new term from a sh…

KiwiSaver employer contributions in 2026: the new 3.5% minimum, explained

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Check the KiwiSaver line on your last payslip. Two numbers moved in April, assuming you were on the default 3%, and you didn't have to do a thing for either of them: your deduction is now 3.5% and your employer has to at least match it. On $80,000 that half-percent is roughly $7.70 a week out of yo…

Breakfast Show Podcast 19-08-2026: The importance of social care in the UK to help the NHS & Britain's Heatwaves: Preparing for a Hotter Future

Latest News/Headlines | Traffic | Weather | Sports Topic I: The importance of social care in the UK to help the NHS Topic II: Britain's Heatwaves: Preparing for a Hotter Future Presenter(s):
Imam Muhammad Athar Imam Noorudeen Jahangeer Guest(s): * Professor Carl Thompson * Rachel Hutchkings …

Index funds vs picking stocks in NZ: fewer than 1 in 5 pros beat the index

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Buying a single company's shares on your phone feels like investing. The app is clean, the ticker goes green, and you tell yourself you've done your homework on this one. It feels like skill. Here's the uncomfortable part: the people who do this for a living — fund managers with Bloomberg terminals…

David Haye talks about Moses Itauma's shock upset loss to Filip Hrgovic

Former world cruiserweight and heavyweight champion David Haye talks to Tris Dixon about the huge fight at the weekend that saw Filip Hrgovic defeat Moses Itauma. Haye looks at the similarities to his early career defeat to Carl Thompson and discusses what Itauma's next steps need to be in a fasc…