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THE PACESETTER - 08 SEPTEMBER 2025

🔥HOT TOPIC

There’s no hotter topic right now than Tom Philips and his three children. How, and who, kept them shielded from the public for so long?

💡SPOTLIGHT

We’ll all have our answers as to why the All Blacks lost against South Africa and by such a margin, but that’s not going to help the team and coaches get back in the saddle for their opening Bledisloe Cup match against Australia in a couple of weeks time. Let’s all get in behind them for this campaign, and to New Zealand Rugby, no more games at the Wellington Cake Tin, where we have a history of getting ‘baked’.

💭OPINION

KiwiSaver must be compulsory. Why is that? Let’s look across the Tasman at our Aussie friends and see what compulsory super has done for them. Aussies collectively have $4.5 trillion saved for their retirement, that’s approximately $225,000 per person. Compare that to our KiwiSaver, where the average balance is approximately $37,000. ☹

💎GEM OF THE WEEK

The best way to succeed is to double your failure rate

– Thomas J. Watson Jr.

❓QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What’s up with New Zealand Netball? Are we going to find out why the players had and held the power to have the coach dumped?

🏉SPORTIFY

At least New Zealand can claim some kudos from the Springboks defeat, with Tony Brown the master coach of their backline. And how good is Rassie Erasmus? He dropped 11 players from the side that lost to the All Blacks in the first test and still believed he had the team to win the second test. How bold was that?

📊OF INTEREST

By 2048, 40% of people aged 65 and over, or up to 600,000 people will be renting (according to the Retirement Commission).

📈THE MARKETS

Hope you got a slice of Oracle’s 36% surge in its share price last week, following its projected revenue growth in the next few years. And it’s not hard to guess what’s driving their investment boom, yes our favourite friend, AI!

And finally, some good news for our hopso industry, according to the latest Retail Spending Stats, hospo had its largest monthly increase since November 2024, up 1.4% or $21m. 😊

 OCR                                          3.0% ↓                        August 2025
CPI                                            2.7% ↑                        June 2025
Unemployment                      5.2% ↑                        June 2025
House Price Movement        2.3% ↑                        July 2024
Rent Price Movement           4.3% ↑                        July 2024

AND IT’S NOW ONLY  101 days to go until Christmas. 🎄