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Memorial to the unknown investor

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Memorial to the unknown investor

Tom Scott’s cartoon on 25 November 1987, just over a month after the share market crash began, suggests that both the business community and many smaller unknown ‘mum and dad’ investors were hurt by the fall in share values.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: H-670-007

by Tom Scott

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David Grant, Stock market – Rise and fall, 1984–1987, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/23692/memorial-to-the-unknown-investor (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Grant, published 4 March 2010.