NZ Herald 24 September 2005
Q&As: What are reasonable conditions for a home buyer to insist on?; Government’s proposed tax changes on international shares.
Q&As: What are reasonable conditions for a home buyer to insist on?; Government’s proposed tax changes on international shares.
Wellington and Christchurch dwellers big spenders and risk takers. So much for Aucklanders’ image as the big spenders, risk takers and owers of debt! Wellington and Christchurch dwellers are more inclined to put some of their savings into high-risk, high-return investments than Aucklanders, a recent survey shows.
Q&As: Don’t be rushed into buying an apartment; 2 Q&As on how student loans can be invested; A finance company has its say.
Q&As: How to go about investing your student loan; How to find rating information on finance companies.
Share pickers respond to my doubts. Even as I typed it, I thought a certain sentence in my last column was bound to cause trouble. “Lots of research,” I wrote, “shows that an individual investor who researches companies doesn’t tend to do any better than someone who chooses shares at random.” Sure enough, a man who describes himself as “a paid-up member of the share pickers guild” emailed me.