About ShareChat

ShareChat was launched in 1999 to provide an online destination where New Zealand investors could share information and news on New Zealand and overseas shares.

The site quickly made its mark on the local investment scene and has built a loyal community of online investors who visit it regularly to make sure they are kept up-to-date on what is happening to the local share market.

Fast forward to 2009, ten years later and we are still going strong.  Although the site has a fresh new look, we will continue delivering the same quality news and content expected from our loyal readers.  The new site aims to provide even more editorial and education material as well as engaging with you, our audience, on a more personal level with blog comments and social media.

One key area of the site development is the implementation of three new specialised Education Centres.  You can now visit our new CFD, Options and Forex centres to learn more about each topic.

We're fortunate to have a very talented team of experienced journalists contributing to ShareChat. Firstly, BusinessWire provide our awesome daily news commentary. 

The BusinessWire team consists of:

Jonathan is a 13-year veteran of Bloomberg News, where he was New Zealand Bureau Chief and one of four editors responsible for top news across Asia. He had worked for a number of newspapers, including the National Business Review, Sunday Star-Times, Dominion Post and Auckland Star and contributed to media companies in the U.S., Europe and South Africa. He has covered politics and policy based in the press gallery, and enjoyed overseas postings in Sydney and throughout Asia.

Pattrick cut his teeth as a journalist at NBR and The Dominion, before working between 1985 and 1988 as a press secretary for New Zealand's reformist Finance Minister Roger Douglas, a period of transforming economic change in New Zealand. He then spent nine years in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Wellington, two of those years as Gallery chair, four of them as New Zealand Correspondent for The Australian.  He has worked also as a NZ correspondent for TIME magazine, the Australian Financial Review, and contributed to numerous British, American and Asian news publications.  Between 2001 and 2008, Pattrick worked in corporate communications for major New Zealand entities including The University of Auckland, Fonterra, James Hardie Industries, and Contact Energy Ltd.  He formed Content Ltd, the publisher of BusinessWire, with Jonathan Underhill in June 2008.

Paul joined BusinessWire in October 2008.
A graduate of the Whitireia Polytechnic School of Journalism, Paul works with Jonathan Underhill to deliver the daily BusinessWire news service.

Plus, you'll also see these people contributing regularly.

Jenny has been a business journalist since 1984, starting her career at National Business Review, worked on Australian Associated Press' finance desk and was New Zealand bureau chief for Bloomberg News until mid-1998.  Jenny now spends her time freelancing for publications such as www.sharechat.co.nz, www.goodreturns.co.nz, New Zealand Property Investor magazine, The Mortgage Mag, The Sunday Star-Times, The Independent and Unlimited magazine.

David writes for Good Returns and is editor of ASSET magazine.  David has extensive experience in the financial arena having spent many years in Australia as editor of a leading financial planning magazine.

Forex Opinion is written by consultant economist, Anthony Byett. Anthony's knowledge stems from 16 years as economist for ASB, which included 5 years as Chief Economist.
Anthony has a passion for fx, and applies that enthusiasm towards informing exporters, importers and investors of the driving forces in foreign exchange markets.
You can visit Anthony's website here:  www.fxmatters.co.nz

Check out our other sites here:

www.landlords.co.nz - for kiwi property investors

www.depositrates.co.nz - find the best term deposit rates online

www.mortgagerates.co.nz - find the best mortgage rates online

www.netprophet.co.nz - accounting news for profit

www.interestrates.co.nz - find the best interest rates

www.goodreturns.co.nz - NZ's financial adviser news centre

www.sharetrader.co.nz - the only community for share traders in NZ