The Financial Markets Authority has launched an interactive tool that let’s you access, and compare, basic fund information. Rebecca Stevenson extracts herself from KiwiSaver ennui to take a look at the numbers. I have a confession. I have a KiwiSaver, and yet for the first two years or so I didn’t realise I had it. … Read more
Priced out of the housing market? Don’t lose heart. In the third part of a series on alternatives to property investment for ‘Generation Rent’, Jenée Tibshraeny looks at managed funds. They’ll cost you more in fees than their index-tracking equivalents, but are the returns worth it? How can you be confident about investing in financial … Read more
Cloud accounting technology company Xero just announced two things: a very positive half-year financial result, and that it is exiting the New Zealand stock exchange. Rebecca Stevenson considers what this means for our investment landscape. New Zealand cloud accounting firm Xero announced its half-year result today and it was a ripper for the company – and … Read more
New Zealand’s Super Fund is one of the best performing sovereign wealth funds in the world – and yet isn’t quite what it could have been. Rebecca Stevenson explains what it is and why it matters. An investment vehicle to pay for our future pension payments has something to do with the All Blacks? Well, … Read more