15 May 2010
I once worked for a brief period in Tanzania, East Africa. At the time, the country was the fourth poorest in the world, despite having a wealth of base and precious metals and masses of fertile land.
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1 May 2010: Imagine you have borrowed a million dollars – interest free - and you pay it back at the rate of $1 per second. It would take you 12 days to pay it back. That is not too scary.... more
13 Apr 2010: All the wrong people are ending up in KiwiSaver default funds – or are they? That depends on their financial knowledge, temperament and home ownership plans.... more
6 Apr 2010: Good investors don’t concentrate just on numbers but look for ideas and trends that might help them understand the economy and markets better.
So, as odd as it may sound, a study of trends at the movie theatre can be useful to an investor.
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13 Mar 2010: Recent news suggests New Zealanders are poles apart on KiwiSaver. Some think the scheme is safer than it is. Others are leaping to ridiculous conclusions about how unsafe it is.
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27 Feb 2010: Two readers sound angry about my last column about GST. Some of their points are valid, but over all I think they just didn’t "get" it.... more
13 Feb 2010: A lot of nonsense has been spoken about GST since John Key more or less said the government will increase that tax - probably to 15 per cent - and use the money to cut income tax rates.... more
8 Feb 2010: Commodity prices have been softening lately amid fears about China's economy overheating. Naturally, this has dragged down the price of most resources companies. ... more
30 Jan 2010: Returning to work after a holiday is rarely easy. Back when I was employed – as opposed to self employed – I remember always feeling as if I were in the wrong job on my first few days back at work.... more
19 Dec 2009: People tend to choose their advisors poorly, mainly because they consider them to be 'experts'. Unfortunately, experts tend to be constrained by their own feelings of self-importance. Tests have found that the higher the qualification and experience a person has, the less accurate their forecasts tend to be.... more
