growth

KiwiSaver growth funds - most should be doing better

21 Oct 17, 7:54am

Our comprehensive review of KiwiSaver growth funds to September 2017, identifying who has the best long-term returns
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True to form, returns are modest

18 Oct 17, 10:00am

David Chaston

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Our comprehensive review of moderate KiwiSaver fund regular savings returns as at September 30, 2017, identifying who has the best long-term returns
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Missing out on the upside

17 Oct 17, 7:41am

David Chaston

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Our comprehensive review of default KiwiSaver fund performance to September 2017, identifying who has the best long-term returns
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The economic case for China’s Belt and Road

14 Oct 17, 7:55am

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China's massive international infrastructure project will benefit the world much like the post-WWII Marshal Plan did for Europe, says Shang-Jin Wei. And the costs are not high for China, although the returns might be
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China’s misguided exchange-rate machinations

25 Aug 17, 9:43am

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China's August 2015 much-needed currency reform to a market-driven exchange rate was quickly – and wrongly – reversed. Yu Yongding says things are more stable now and he wants this reform reinstituted
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Labour backs 'Golden Triangle' trains, Greens promise free public transport for under-19s

21 Aug 17, 11:42am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Labour pledges to connect Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga through a rapid rail network, as well as double funding for regional road projects; Green Party commits to providing young people with free public transport
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Where more risk pays off - and where it hasn't

7 Aug 17, 12:36pm

David Chaston

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Choosing the right aggressive fund has resulted in turbo-charged results. But others have performed poorly. We review these funds' track records over the past nine years
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Balanced KiwiSaver funds deserve your attention

1 Aug 17, 5:02am

David Chaston

Our comprehensive review of Balanced KiwiSaver fund returns to June 30, 2017, identifying who has the best long-term returns
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Are you in a Conservative fund for the right reason?

28 Jul 17, 11:54am

David Chaston

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Our comprehensive review of Conservative KiwiSaver fund performance to June 30, 2017, identifying who has the best long-term returns
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Where they have invested your money

27 Jul 17, 11:10am

David Chaston

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Our comprehensive review of default KiwiSaver fund performance to June 2017, identifying who has the best long-term returns
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Did Liu Xiaobo die for nothing?

17 Jul 17, 8:26am

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Minxin Pei says the death of an imprisoned Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate shows just how desperately the Chinese Communist Party leadership will defend its political monopoly
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Should China deleverage?

30 Jun 17, 10:57am

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Yu Yongding says China is confronting the macroeconomic challenge of over-capacity deflation. Curbing excessive government and corporate debt which brought a credit rating downgrade is a second-rank problem deflected by a very high savings rate
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Setting a benchmark

13 Jun 17, 2:11pm

David Chaston

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Our comprehensive review of default KiwiSaver fund performance to March 2017, identifying who has the best long-term returns
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Capital controls key to China curbing its debt

30 May 17, 11:09am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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China's credit rating downgrade underlines need for authorities to keep preventing Chinese from investing their savings overseas, Asia expert says
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The TPP's second act

25 May 17, 11:44am

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Minxin Pei sees a strategic opportunity for India and Japan to counterbalance China with a new trade bloc
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This week's guest Top 10

5 May 17, 10:02am

Siah Hwee Ang

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Siah Hwee Ang on America's show of steel, corruption on TV in China, NZ is 'first' again, nurturing home-grown, the big boys fight in Southeast Asia, who is stealing your job? and more
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The reality of being an overachiever

13 Apr 17, 11:50am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Jenée Tibshraeny's observations of the cost South Korea has paid for its rise to the top
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China needs a new Grand Strategy

10 Feb 17, 9:32am

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Minxin Pei shows that while China may be relieved at the waning challenge from the West's concepts of a liberal democracy, they fear the new trade and globalisation challenges, and are very anxious about the security risks
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Revival of the 'rock star economy'

24 Jan 17, 10:18am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Construction, tourism and the dairy price rebound are seeing the NZ economy 'firing all cylinders again', says HSBC economist Paul Bloxham
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Xi Jinping’s year of living dangerously

14 Jan 17, 10:07am

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Minxin Pei shows that the 'core leader' of China faces some steadfast internal political resistance, the risk of a real-estate market crash, and the corrosion of capital flight
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