Newsletter – June 2022

This issue covers investing in New Zealand Innovation Fund, three exciting recent additions to the fund Opum, Captivate Technology, and TamoRx.

This issue covers the importance of being invested, through the highs and lows, over the longer term.

Our theme this month is diversification. Diversifying investments can mitigate risk by balancing the ups and downs of individual shares, and individual countries to reduce their impact on your entire portfolio. A diversified portfolio is more resilient because it’s designed to capture growth while providing relative security during market downturns.

This issue explains recency bias, a phenomenon whereby investors let short-term performance influence their decisions, and ways to counter this, instead seeing the silver lining in market volatility.

Our theme this month is interest rates. After the highest interest rates since 2008, the Official Cash Rate (OCR) was cut in August, marking the first cut since 2020. In this newsletter we outline what lower interest rates mean for your portfolio.

This issue covers what the results of the NZ general election and the conflict in the Middle East mean for investors.