Opinion

Investing under the finfluence

David Chaplin
Wed, 30 Jun 2021

The FMA wants social media influencers need to think before they post (Image: DepositPhotos)

David Chaplin
Wed, 30 Jun 2021

Just got off the phone from a suspected finfluencer.I would dob them in to the Financial Markets Authority except I don’t speak much, or any, Mandarin so the alleged woman could have been trying to sell me legitimate footwear or re-educate me about China’s peaceful Pacific strategy.Anyway, I have the mobile number saved if the FMA is interested in following up as per the regulator’s new friendly reminder for financial influencers (contracted, like a disease, to ‘finfluencers’) – more formally known as ‘...

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