Money Show may go

This year's Money Show may be the last in Auckland for sometime.

Wednesday, July 15th 1998, 12:00AM

This year's Money Show may be the last in Auckland for sometime, organiser Peter Thomson says.
"We might just give it a break for a while," he says.
While the show was successful in terms of the number of visitors and the quality of its seminar programme, there was a need for greater industry support, he says.
Thomson would like to see the advisory associations get together and get in behind the show, and he would like to see broader support from the product providers.
"I think the industry really has to have a more unified approach to the Money Show," he says.

Overall the number of exhibitors has decreased from the highs hit at the 1995 and 1996 shows to a low this year.
This year's three-day show, which was held in Auckland last weekend, had just 29 exhibitors and four major sponsors which included AMP, Armstrong Jones and BT Funds Management.
Thompson says about 3500 people came through the show, which is on par with numbers achieved last year.
On the exhibitors side Thompson says this year there were fewer of the companies promoting "fringe" investments such as ostriches, Queensland properties and forestry.
"A couple of years ago forestry in particular would draw full houses. It's not so popular now," he says.
However there is a growing demand from do-it-yourself investors for tools such as monitoring software and books.
Thompson says seminars on family trusts once again were highly popular.
No decisions have yet been made on the next Money Show, but there is a possibility one may be held in Wellington, Thomson says.

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