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| Newsletters, Investment | | | Tip sheets are to the sharemarket, what the Best Bets and the Turf Digest are to horse racing.The frightening thing about tip sheets is that anyone, no matter what their background, could start up business as a tipster. In New Zealand there are no requirements for tip sheets to be registered with a regulatory authority, such as the Securities Commission.No doubt this will change at some stage in the future when the powers that be eventually wake up to the abuses that do occur from time to time.
The quality of tip-sheets available ranges from the very good to the very dreadful. Their merit pretty much reflects the calibre of the personalities (or lack of them) behind the publication. We are aware of one such publication that publicly prides itself on its research capabilities yet has shown itself to be incapable of undertaking even the most elementary of company searches. This is what one should look for in a good tip sheet:
- Full disclosure of the identities behind the publication. Street address, the name of the tipster behind the tip sheet, their credentials, experience and qualifications; contact phone numbers, and so on. University degrees alone do not make a good financial adviser.
- Immediacy. A tip sheet should tell you to buy or sell before the event, not after it. With hindsight anyone can claim to be a sharemarket guru. It’s no use knowing about a good buy if you are the last to know about it.
- The advice you are given should be flexible — not always bullish nor always bearish. They will be right some of the time (even a stopped watch is right twice a day!) but not most of the time. A tip sheet should assist you in making good decisions, in today’s market conditions.
- Is a history of recommendations maintained and if so is it accurate and true?
- Is the style of the tip sheet suitable to your own investing style?
| | | | | | | | New Zealand | | Ellis Brothers Newsletter | | Good Returns | | Information about managed funds. | | | | Headliner | | Monthly investment newsletter. Topics include columns, tips, detailed research on a wide range of topics including equities, property, currencies, fixed interest, managed funds. | | | | McEwen Investment Report | | A concise, incisive review of the market, with firm an independent long-term recommendations. The only publication in New Zealand publishing weekly trading recommendations. Features include: detailed analysis of New Zealand listed securities with firm recommendations, a "strategy session", comment on major Stock Exchange announcements, an investment research service, and a "share of the week". This site includes a performance review showing its ability to outperform the market average. | | | | New Zealand Investor Monthly | | Published by Equity Investment Advisers and Sharebrokers Ltd, this monthly magazine contains general interest articles on investment matters and commentary of specific share investments. | | | | NZ Investment Journal | | Established in 1994. Published 11 times a year. Articles are intended to make the reader think and are generally short and to the point. The contributors are mostly authorative executives from the funds management industry. | | | | Shares.net.nz | | buy and sell recommendations and much more. | | | | Unlimited | | A monthly magazine with good net content. | | | | | | Overseas | | Taipanonline | | This site has a large amount of promotional content in it, it also has editorial material – and some related to the New Zealand economy and NZSE listed stocks. This can be best accessed through the sites search archives feature. | | |
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