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February/March 2013

Her Magazine is New Zealand’s only women’s business lifestyle magazine! Her Magazine highlights the achievements of successful and rising New Zealand businesswomen. Her Magazine encourages a healthy work/life balance.

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:the engine room THE ENGINE ROOM Your guide to investing in shares IF ANYTHING IN THIS world is well and truly misunderstood, it is shares, but in fact they are a very good producer of investment returns. Shares are the "engine room" of any investment portfolio and when you invest in shares you will be rewarded (nice word) for taking the risk, provided you take several key steps. Stocks, equities, shares In NZ we call them shares - in the US they call them stocks - and the professionals call them equities. THE INDEX An Index is a measure of a market; the NZX 50 index is the top 50 NZ shares, and a combined value is calculated daily and this is what you see on TV most nights the ASX 300 index is the top 300 Australian shares and is widely quoted daily the S&P 500 index is top 500 US shares and again, is widely quoted daily An index is very useful as it gives individual DIY investors and professional fund managers a benchmark to compare with. 52 | www.h e rmagaz i n e . c o. n z

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