Newsletter – September 2022

This month our theme this month is time in the market vs timing the market. Avoiding the perils of emotionally driven investment decisions, which can often lead to missed opportunities and lower overall returns.

Broadening Booster’s direct investments in attractive, unlisted NZ assets – Aotea Asset Management.

Our theme this month is Trump vs Harris – what the different parties are offering and how the US Presidential election may affect the markets.

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.

This month our theme is ‘shock absorbers’, the strategies we employ to reduce the effects of market volatility on your investments.

It’s been an eventful start to the year. Tensions have been rising between Russia and Ukraine and central banks around the world are looking to increase interest rates.