News - Gareth's Articles

• New Standards for Performance Reporting
  Wednesday, 1 September 2010
  GMK is setting new standards by becoming New Zealand’s first GIPS compliant KiwiSaver provider.
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• Pitfalls that Mislead the Public
  Wednesday, 1 September 2010
  MORNINGSTAR REPORTING TABLES It was illustrated with the Huljich affair where Morningstar published their manipulated returns, and tens of thousands of KiwiSaver members flocked to the “best performing provider”. Those investors were misled, not just by Huljich but by the Morningstar ...
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• Guidance from the Securities Commission? Yeah Right
  Thursday, 1 April 2010
  Why I called the recent KiwiSaver Distribution and Disclosure paper pathetic.
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• GMI Performance Summary 2009
  Thursday, 18 February 2010
  Our clients and members get performance reports from us every month, but each February we publish a performance review of the previous year for all to see. Performance data, key investment strategies, outlook for 2010.
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• From Russia With Love
  Monday, 8 September 2008
  These days Russia is a land of contradictions – at least to this set of Western eyes – as it presents a curious mix of economic policies, some of which make Roger Douglas look an apparatchik of the Looney Left, some akin to Michael Cullen’s programme of re-nationalisation, and then...
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• Encounter With Three Baltic Sisters
  Monday, 1 September 2008
  Emerging temporarily from our Russian traverse for a quick tour of the Baltic States, involved simply crossing a border line but was more akin to pulling the curtains apart and seeing another world. Estonia, (population 1 million in an area less than 20% of New Zealand’s) is one of the Baltic ...
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• North Russia –Forgotten and Neglected
  Monday, 25 August 2008
  Russia as we all know is in the midst of an economic revival. The sequence of Glasnost, Perestroika, Gorbachev, Yeltsin et al and now the high price of energy – has afforded this clunky, lumbering giant a new lease of life and its economy is on a tear.
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• Tale of Two Countries
  Monday, 18 August 2008
  Imagine a country that was fortunate to have two real world beaters in terms of natural resources – oil and hydro electricity...
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• Lasting Impressions of Iceland
  Monday, 11 August 2008
  As the ferry pulls away from Iceland to take us on a three day voyage across the North Sea to Denmark, we reflect on what has been a fun week riding around the island and venturing here and there from the ring road to find as much that Iceland can offer the quick tourist. So what are our lasting imp...
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• Illuminating the Northern Lights
  Tuesday, 5 August 2008
  It’s the abundance of geothermal activity and rivers that gives us our most startling first impressions of Northeast Iceland
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