Finance Blogs
You can read and comment on the latest views from our team of financial commentators. Topics range from foreign exchange, finance, investing to blogs on trading.
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Think Global: It’s a wrap (Jan/Feb)
By Wayne Lochore
Things are moving so fast in the markets and global economies that most writers I follow are complaining of the same thing – there is so much of value being written that it is near impossible to keep up. When top writers such as John Mauldin and... More »
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Trust KiwiSaver? You bet
By David Chaplin
“It must be remembered,” the PR-attenuated Simon Power commented in his ‘fast-track’ release this week, “that though KiwiSaver was set up by government, risk is inherent in investment decisions, and those investments... More »
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SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: Down in the Lab
By Pattrick Smellie
As a bouncy young Minister in 1992, Simon Upton dismembered the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and created the Crown Research Institutes, to various shrieks of heresy and with perhaps too much the idea they should act like private... More »
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Brash takes charge but of what?
By David Chaplin
Fund managers bleary from a night celebrating the success of their own kind awoke Thursday morning to news that an outsider, and upstart competitor, had slipped up.
After weeks of controversy the resignation of Peter Huljich from the investment/KiwiSaver... More »
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Think Global: Europe and little white pills
By Wayne Lochore
Firstly me – on the 9th of February I received a call from the Endocrinology Department of Waikato Hospital asking how long it would take me to get to their clinic – when I hesitated to think, the specialist said “I mean today!” I turned up at... More »
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Further statements on Huljich
By David Chaplin
In response to one of my previous blogs some readers took offence at my use of the phrase “unsafe marketing practices” to describe certain actions undertaken by the Huljich KiwiSaver scheme.
For example, boredacademic wrote: “Some ‘unsafe... More »
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SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: Intimate Disclosures
By Pattrick Smellie
It was a week for divulging secrets. Phil Heatley: – Basically, I have a confusing wallet. I’m not a details person. I’ve got really no idea which credit card I use most of the time. All too believable. That’s what it looked... More »
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Tiger, Telecom, ministers apologise, but not the NZX
By David Chaplin
I couldn’t find any mention of an apology on the NZX website following its confused position on the index-worthiness of Allied Farmers.
And while NZX chief Mark Weldon might be even now crafting his apology speech, he will be selling his sorriness... More »
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Hubmania – an unexplained phenomenon
By David Chaplin
Against the run of play the ‘financial hub’ concept I thought wouldn’t even make a news brief in Back Office Monthly has instead become headline fodder in the mainstream press.
Herald columnist Fran O’Sullivan had a crack; Bernard... More »
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Sorting out fund managers
By Frank Newman
Questions regarding the way Huljich Wealth Management has been reporting historical investment returns raises some wider issues about the way fund manager performance is reported. If investors are to be better informed as the current government expects,... More »
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