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| Investor Column Archive | | | | For the latest copy of the Investors Column click here... | | | | 27th March 2010 | | WANTED: BETTER INSURANCE AGAINST OUTLIVING OUR SAVINGS
By Mary Holm
Imagine you’re heading into retirement. You’ll get NZ Super, but you also have savings in KiwiSaver or elsewhere. You would like to spend that money over ...more | | | | 22nd March 2010 | | Investor Column - Perils of the crystal ball
By David McEwen
Making predictions is a difficult game, but that doesn't stop people trying. Many try to cover themselves by making vague predictions that they hope will at least ...more | | | | 13th March 2010 | | KIWISAVER NEITHER GUARANTEED NOR GHASTLY
By Mary Holm
Recent news suggests New Zealanders are poles apart on KiwiSaver. Some think the scheme is safer than it is. Others are leaping to ridiculous conclusions about how unsafe ...more | | | | 28th February 2010 | | READERS REACT OVER GST
By Mary Holm
Two readers sound angry about my last column about GST. Some of their points are valid, but over all I think they just didn’t “get” it.
The column – about the government’s proposed ...more | | | | 6th February 2010 | | Commodities Are Still Attractive
Commodity prices have been softening lately amid fears about China's economy overheating. Naturally, this has dragged down the price of most resources companies.
BHP, for example, is down 4% ...more | | | | 30th January 2010 | | OH NO, OH NO, IT’S OFF TO WORK WE GO
By Mary Holm
Returning to work after a holiday is rarely easy. Back when I was employed – as opposed to self employed – I remember always feeling as if I were in the wrong job on my first ...more | | | | 20th December 2009 | | When Experts Panic
People tend to choose their advisors poorly, mainly because they consider them to be 'experts'. Unfortunately, experts tend to be constrained by their own feelings of self-importance. Tests have found that ...more | | | | 12th December 2009 | | DO KIWISAVER – BUT NOT TO THE MAX
By Mary Holm
At a recent KiwiSaver seminar I was surprised to find that many employee members were still contributing 4 per cent of their pay, rather than the 2 per cent permissible since ...more | | | | 7th December 2009 | | Oil Heading Higher?
John Hess, chairman of US energy company Hess Corporation has predicted a "devastating oil crisis" in as few as five years, unless global action is taken.
In a speech a few weeks ago to the Money & Oil ...more | | | | 28th November 2009 | | GIFTS THAT GIVE ON SEVERAL LEVELS
By Mary Holm
Perhaps the most important assignment in a university course I teach on financial literacy has little to do with finance. Worried that the course might send the message “the ...more | | | | << Previous | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | >> Next | |
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