Introduction To Education

Welcome to the Education section. Here we provide a number of resources and articles to help you become more informed about shares, share trading and share markets, to enable you to get the most from National Bank Share and Bond Trading.

To help you find the articles relevant to your needs they are grouped into the following sections:

• What are Shares?

• Dividends and How They are Paid

• Rights, Bonus Issues and Share Splits

• What are Debt Securities?

• The Issuers of Debt

• Risk and Return

• Conducting Due Diligence

• Share Markets

• When a Company Lists on the Market

• Why Shares Change in Value

• The Two Markets Offered

• Trading on a Share Market

• Buying and Selling Shares

• What is Market Depth?

• Trading with Share and Bond Trading

• Conditional Orders

• Researching Your Share Choices

• Company Annual Reports

• Company Ratios

• Capital Structure

• Market Indices

• Market Announcements

• Advanced Charting

• Managing a Share Portfolio

• Building a Share Portfolio

• Keeping Track of Your Portfolio

• Specialist Areas

• When a Take-over Bid is Made

• Shares and Tax

• Short-selling

• Margin Trading

• Derivatives

The information available in the field of share market investment is very extensive. If you have a desire to explore it further we suggest some of the places we have found useful or interesting information.

This is useful for an explanation and definition of terms used throughout the site and in many of the research reports that you may read. Because of the many different terms used across the various markets offered by this site, the glossary will be a helpful companion to every trader.

For more information about Share and Bond Trading please call us on 0800 885 564, or +64 4 498 7068 if you’re calling from outside New Zealand, or email us.