NZ Herald 5 December 2009
Q&As: Adviser’s advice is shocking — on three counts; Does it make sense to want your charity dollars to all go to the frontline?; When should you reduce your KiwiSaver contributions?
NZ Herald 7 November 2009
Q&As: Independent fee-charging advisers — the ones readers should be able to count on — to be listed in this column; Are accountants obliged to minimise tax, and to not dob in their clients to Inland Revenue?; Contributing to adult children’s KiwiSaver accounts a good idea, even if they end up losing some of it in a marriage break-up. Also: An invitation to attend a breakfast representing investors.
NZ Herald 31 October 2009
Q&As: Tax agent and Inland Revenue differ on treatment of investors selling rental properties; Two big issues lead to bad financial advice results; Is this column dominated by KiwiSaver?; Generally, don’t put lump sums into KiwiSaver.
NZ Herald 24 October 2009
Q&As: Are house prices less likely to fall in posher suburbs?; Financial advisers paid by commissions can’t do as well as someone who is independent; Two Q&As on why recently issued preference shares are not good investments.
NZ Herald 17 October 2009
Q&As: Are preference shares a good investment, despite recent price falls?; Did reader get good advice from an ASB adviser?
The Investor 8 September 2009
Performance pay not as good as it sounds. Here’s a radical idea: pay financial advisers according to the performance of the investments they put you in. Sounds appealing, but would it work?
NZ Herald 29 August 2009
Q&As: Just because a so-called financial expert is confident, that doesn’t mean he or she is right; If you haven’t worked for a while any time in the last five years, you may well be in for a tax refund; Don’t delay joining KiwiSaver, even if you’re worried that you could be made redundant; KiwiSaver tax credit lark for the newly retired is too good to be true.
NZ Herald 23 May 2009
Q&As: Don’t let international survey put you off investing in managed funds; Reader challenges comments about classic cars.
NZ Herald 31 January 2009
Q&As: Several options for 20-year-old who worries that the state of the world makes KiwiSaver iffy; 5 Q&As about reader who was offered a mortgage deal that was too good to be true.
NZ Herald 24 January 2009
Q&As: Advisor’s mortgage offer looks too magical to be true; Children more likely to be angry because their parents didn’t sign them up to KiwiSaver than because they did; Too much on KiwiSaver in this column?