This article was published on 21 February 2019. Some information may be out of date.

How the New ‘Smart Investor’ Tool Can Help You

What is Smart Investor?

Listeners’ letters and how the tool might help them:

  • Investing beyond term deposits
  • Mortgage or KiwiSaver? And saving outside KiwiSaver
  • Diversifying beyond KiwiSaver

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Mary Holm is a freelance journalist, a director of Financial Services Complaints Ltd (FSCL), a seminar presenter and a bestselling author on personal finance. From 2011 to 2019 she was a founding director of the Financial Markets Authority. Her opinions are personal, and do not reflect the position of any organisation in which she holds office. Mary’s advice is of a general nature, and she is not responsible for any loss that any reader may suffer from following it.