Articles on Investing Money

This Investing Your Money section of DepositRates.co.nz is designed to help readers understand some of the issues around putting money into interest-bearing term investments.

Interest-bearing investments have been extremely popular with New Zealanders over recent years and there is now a larger number and wide range of options including bank term deposits, finance company debentures, online savings accounts, listed debt securities and cash management funds.

This section includes articles on the various aspects of investing your money in term deposits. If there is a topic you'd like covered, please email us here

Understanding Ratings

23 August 2007 - Ratings are an important tool all investors looking to put money onto deposit need to understand.

Five point plan for investing in finance companies

22 August 2007 - This article provides a summary of the Five point plan Philip Macalister outlined on Campbell Live tonight. For more information sign up for the free depositrates.co.nz newsletter. Links are at the bottom of the article.

Investing in fixed interest 101

3 May 2006 - This How to Invest section of www.depositrates.co.nz is designed to help readers understand some of the issues around putting money into interest-bearing investments.

An alternative to term deposits

25 January 2006 - Claire Matthews examines the emergence of online savings accounts and asks whether they stack up.

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