This segment was broadcast on 9 June 2016. Some information may be out of date.

Listeners’ questions on KiwiSaver performance and timing markets

  • Why average investors do worse than the market as a whole
  • How to pick a good fund manager
  • Would it be good to buy recent losers?
  • Will brokerage prevent drip feeding into shares?
  • Etc.

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Mary Holm is a freelance journalist, a director of Financial Services Complaints Ltd (FSCL), a seminar presenter and a bestselling author on personal finance. From 2011 to 2019 she was a founding director of the Financial Markets Authority. Her opinions are personal, and do not reflect the position of any organisation in which she holds office. Mary’s advice is of a general nature, and she is not responsible for any loss that any reader may suffer from following it.