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Christmas Present Tips for Guys

Christmas Shopping Tips for Guys

giftgreen1Most of us guys are useless at Christmas shopping. Here's a few tips I've picked up over the years.

Ladies, you might want to share this with the men in your family to avoid getting an undesirable and badly wrapped present this Christmas.

  1. Buying your Christmas presents at a petrol station or dairy on Christmas morning really isn't the done thing - apparently not everyone wants a funnel, box of biscuits or a car care kit. Don't do it.
  2. Get started early, no not on Christmas Eve, yesterday was already too late.
  3. First thing in the morning is the best time to Christmas shop, and I mean first thing, teenagers are still in bed.
  4. It's not the thought that counts, it's how MUCH thought that counts.
  5. Cash is a GREAT present for teenagers - and me.
  6. If you must give gift vouchers make sure they are from a shop the recipient actually shops in and try and avoid those with an expiry date.
  7. Wrapping and cards are important, you and I know it's just paper but for some reason they are important.
  8. Before you start browsing in a shop check that it does gift wrapping and accept the service - wait if necessary. If the shop doesn't do gift wrapping move on to the next. Unless you are an expert present wrapper - Yeah Right!
  9. Even if every present you buy is gift wrapped, buy plenty of wrapping paper and sellotape. You are going to need it because dairy's and petrol stations don't gift wrap and being a bloke you'll probably ignore number 1.

Guys ignore the above at your peril and have a wonderful Christmas.

Posted in Keeping Track of Your Investments.

How have you elected to receive information on your investments?

I Didn't Get The Form!

Recently both Z Energy and TrustPower offered existing investors the opportunity to invest in new isssues - if they completed a form.

A number of clients rang us concerned that they hadn't received the forms in the mail, asking if we could we provide them. The offer was only open to existing investors so the forms weren't publicly available.

To start with we put it down to NZ Post's reduced delivery schedules. But when they still hadn't arived after a week we talked to the share registry - Link Market Services who were very helpful.

Investigation found the same cause, the investors that hadn't received the forms in the mail had elected to receive information by EMAIL. So the forms were emailed rather than posted.

The investors hadn't see the emails.

More and more email is becoming the preferred method of delivering information, we vastly prefer delivering information by email, as it is days faster and infinitely cheaper.

But in situations like this that require a piece of paper to be printed out, signed and returned perhaps its not the best method.

Both the major share registries in New Zealand - Computershare and Link Market Services have facilities on their web sites where you can check how information is being delivered to you.

You will have to create an "account" to do so, we strongly suggest you do.

Computershare - www.computershare.co.nz

Link Market Services - http://www.linkmarketservices.co.nz

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