Complusory Savings Distort Market for Investment

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Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The issues relevant to the introduction of compulsory superannuation can be considered under two headings. Is it good for the individual and is it good for the country ? Insofar as the individual … Read More

Who’s Crying Now?

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Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments It’s been a bad month for Fletcher Challenge shareholders. Owners of New Zealand’s largest corporate have been hit by a once in millennium financial disaster – share price meltdown. Collectively they’ve lost around … Read More

On Your Tod

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Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The publication earlier this week by the Presbyterian church of survey findings on retirement savings, suggests the Todd Task Force missed the point. The church research found that up to one third of … Read More

Negating Mega-Inefficiency

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Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments Energy efficiency has been sidelined in the process of restructuring the electricity industry. It is a service industry, yet electricity is treated as though it is a satisficing good: the more you have, … Read More

Investment Beggars

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Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments NZ requires an investment resurgence over the next year if it is to achieve significant economic growth. The chances of the household sector leading the recovery via a consumption splurge are not high, … Read More