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| Investor Column Archive | | | | For the latest copy of the Investors Column click here... | | | | 8th June 2010 | | PLANS OR NO PLANS? READERS DIFFER
By Mary Holm
If you¡¯ve wondered who that bloke is hanging around stores in the weekend watching people buy 3D television sets, it could be Blair Vernon.
He¡¯s the AMP executive I had a ...more | | | | 30th May 2010 | | BEWARE FAT FINGERS AND BLACK BOXES
Was a ¡®fat finger¡¯ to blame for Wall Street¡¯s recent implosion?
The US Securities & Exchange Commission has launched an investigation after the main measurement of the US market, the Dow ...more | | | | 23rd May 2010 | | CONFESSION TIME ABOUT RETIREMENT PLANS AND GOALS
By Mary Holm
I’m going to commit sacrilege here. But it’s not as if I haven’t thought long and hard about it. So okay, deep breath, here we go:
Contrary to what many will ...more | | | | 15th May 2010 | | WHY NEW ZEALAND CAN'T CATCH AUSTRALIA
I once worked for a brief period in Tanzania, East Africa.
At the time, the country was the fourth poorest in the world, despite having a wealth of base and precious metals and masses of ...more | | | | 8th May 2010 | | SET AND FORGET KIWISAVER FUNDS A GREAT CHOICE FOR MANY
By Mary Holm
I’m not really interested in what happens under the bonnet of my car, as long as it goes. In much the same way many people are not interested in what ...more | | | | 30th April 2010 | | HOW MUCH IS A TRILLION?
By David McEwen
Imagine you have borrowed a million dollars – interest free - and you pay it back at the rate of $1 per second. It would take you 12 days to pay it back. That is not too scary.
Now ...more | | | | 26th April 2010 | | HOME OWNERSHIP DOESN’T ALWAYS BEAT RENTING
By Mary Holm
I was a little surprised the other day when I asked a couple of hundred young university students whether they wanted to buy a home in the foreseeable future. Everyone ...more | | | | 19th April 2010 | | POSITIVE SIGNS - BUT CAN THEY LAST?
In the past few weeks I have seen something in shop windows that I haven’t seen for years – "staff wanted" signs.
I’m not talking about one or two but several that have been put up. Some ...more | | | | 9th April 2010 | | CHANGE KIWISAVER DEFAULT FUNDS – BUT EDUCATE TOO
By Mary Holm
All the wrong people are ending up in KiwiSaver default funds – or are they? That depends on their financial knowledge, temperament and home ownership ...more | | | | 6th April 2010 | | HOW MOVIES HELP INVESTORS
Good investors don’t concentrate just on numbers but look for ideas and trends that might help them understand the economy and markets better.
So, as odd as it may sound, a study of trends at the ...more | | | | << Previous | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | >> Next | |
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