Newsletter – April 2025

Introducing our new Active Global manager, Intermede, and a taste of some of their investments.

Our theme this month is shareholder voting and highlighting a few recent votes on resolutions that Booster, as the manager of your investments, has made on your behalf.

This month we outline President Trump’s revised tariffs and trade deals and what this mean for NZ, and global financial markets.

This issue covers built-in ‘shock absorbers’ within your portfolio to cushion the effect of market volatility.

This month our theme is ‘a change in direction for interest rates’. We take a quick look at what the RBNZ and OCR do, why the OCR has increased, and what this change could mean for households and businesses.

This month our theme is why things still feel sluggish despite indicators suggesting that the NZ economy is entering the early stages of recovery.