How to determine what is a safe investment company.
Is "safe" the right word to use?  The links below will take you to NZ web sites that evaluate and comment on the risk of many of the NZ finance companies.
These websites don't guarantee anything.

• ChrisLee
• Interest.co.nz - balance sheet evaluator
• Interest.co.nz - ratings
• Debentures.co.nz
• Grosvenor

No money, no worry
This true story of a South Auckland woman is so hard to comprehend.   Her car bulb was broken and her solution was to finance another car.  Luckily she found car dealer and finance company that would lend 100%.  Now she has three cars she cannot afford.  But did anyone ask, if she couldn't afford a $250 bulb how was she going to pay the loan?

• Click here to read

Ten Six simple rules to guide you
Two newspaper articles that offer guidance about how to manage and understand finance company risk.

• Read six rules here
• A further ten rules here