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| Investor Column Archive | | | | For the latest copy of the Investors Column click here... | | | | 5th July 2009 | | Government Super Plan Shortsighted
Memo to the National Government: Time to learn some investment basics. Here's an example: You have to invest money to make money. Another is: The price paid for assets dictates the return you ...more | | | | 28th June 2009 | | HOW WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IN FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE SURVEY?
By Mary Holm
It's question time. How would you have answered the following in a recent survey: "Which is generally considered to make you the most money over the next 15 ...more | | | | 22nd June 2009 | | Concern over a leading recession indicator
By David McEwen
The latest in my anecdotal indicators about our economy come from the hospitality industry.
I am fortunate enough to live near Ponsonby in Auckland, which contains ...more | | | | 14th June 2009 | | TIME TO TOP UP KIWISAVER TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE SCHEME
By Mary Holm
Mid-June is top up time for many people in KiwiSaver. If you don't take action in the next week or two, you could miss out on up to a thousand dollars or ...more | | | | 8th June 2009 | | Why Soft Commodities Are A Safe Bet
The prices of oil, gold and a number of other resources have been rising lately, suggesting the balance between inflationists and deflationists is starting to swing in favour of the former. ...more | | | | 31st May 2009 | | NYAH NYAH TO MORNINGSTAR
By Mary Holm
One aspect of the recent Morningstar report on investors' experience of managed funds - in which New Zealand came bottom out of 16 countries ¨C got little coverage in the news media. ...more | | | | 24th May 2009 | | INVESTOR COLUMN
By David McEwen
One of the hardest things about being an investor in the past 18 months was watching the failure of almost all the experts' most cherished concepts.
Think of 'Flight to Safety', the concept that in bad times ...more | | | | 17th May 2009 | | ILL WIND NOT AS BAD AS IT SEEMS
By Mary Holm
An email from a Christchurch reader has got me thinking. "In any game it is either a win, loss or a draw," he writes. "Right now there are plenty of losers, nationally and ...more | | | | 13th May 2009 | | Inflation versus deflation?
By David McEwen
There has been a hullabaloo in the media recently about prices falls. The UK's retail price index fell by 0.3% in March, the first decline since 1960. Meanwhile the Bank of ...more | | | | 3rd May 2009 | | NON-KIWISAVERS MISS OUT BECAUSE OF MISINFORMATION
By Mary Holm
Sometimes it's not so much what you don't know but what you misunderstand that hurts you. That came through loud and clear in my recent reader survey about ...more | | | | << Previous | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | >> Next | |
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