John Killick Blog
NZ Super Fund – Best in World, What can you take from it?
The $30 billion NZ Super Fund is the best performing Sovereign wealth fund over the past five years, generating returns of more than 17 per cent a year. Those returns easily beat all other Sovereign wealth funds that publish their figures, according to a global study by...
Read More...Willie Apiata
It isn’t every day you get to hold the Victoria Cross and it’s certainly something special to be in the company of a man who has the life sentence of representing its values. Its mana.
I hadn’t considered what it meant to carry the burden as New Zealand’s...
Read More...The 9 Risks to Retirement Income
Fundamentally there are four critical considerations when initiating or maintaining any investment. They are: What are the risk factors. What return has the investment generated historically. How available are the funds for withdrawal should circumstances change (liquidity) and what tax and fees are payable. Bank term deposits...
Read More...Crowd funding and Peer to peer lending
I remember the euphoria which surrounded our capital markets before ‘The correction’ in 1987. Everyone you bumped into had a tip for the next share market winner. Stock Brokers congregated in bars and their wide eyed toadies enjoyed the spin from the amazing growth enjoyed by NZ’s...
Read More...The Academic Pejorative
In last week’s essay we summarised the development of the funds management industry in New Zealand. The rationale being an explanation for the ‘investing’ publics conviction for remaining focused to that which they know and understand (direct shares in some instances – but predominantly residential investment property...
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