David Chaplin: DAVID CHAPLIN: Half-time results: growth and value look to settle scores
Year-to-date, it’s been a half of two quarters.The latest investment survey from consultancy firm Melville Jessup Weaver (MJW) – a key point of reference for the New Zealand funds management industry – shows just how skew-whiff markets have been over the first six months of the a...
David Chaplin: DAVID CHAPLIN: Afterpay, the payment system that ‘isn’t’
How much for cash?In the good old days, your plumber would have an answer to that question. But the demise of physical money, a sustained regulatory crack-down on the ‘black economy’ and a surplus of anti-money laundering rules have rendered the ‘cashie’ obsolete: a piece of fina...
David Chaplin: DAVID CHAPLIN: On custody: how Barry Kloogh ponzied off-platform
The clue is in the custody.Among that $15 million worth of bad news handed down last week by the NZ Insolvency and Trustee Service to investors who trusted Dunedin financial adviser, Barry Kloogh, there is, if you dig deep enough, one glimmer of optimism. According to the second...
David Chaplin: DAVID CHAPLIN: Selling out: my life story
It was a sold-out show.Almost the entire contents of the 26-storey historic 33 Alfred St building on Sydney’s Circular Quay spilled out to hear the great leader George Trumbull deliver the news somewhere off-site. Up in the retail financial services wing, Allegra, who was awesom...
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