Mary Holm: Investing Made Simple

(Penguin $24.95)

Review: Gilbert Wong

"I'm on your side," writes Mary Holm, introducing this collection of her columns.

The "Money Matters" columnist for the Business Herald also syndicates an investment column in many of the country's newspapers and prides herself on her independence.

Anyone who's had to field a call from the plethora of those hawking financial services of every spectrum will welcome her plain English explanations of the investment world that can seem like a maze with penury sitting at the centre.