Newsletter – February 2022

This month’s theme is the benefits of active management. Active management allows us to manage specific risks, adjust to market conditions, and uncover hidden investment opportunities. Dutch company ASML has been an exciting recent success story.

Our theme this month is private income investments – an asset class that is quietly becoming one of the fastest-growing parts of the investment world.

Widening Booster’s direct investments in attractive, unlisted NZ assets – helping local Iwi fund the purchase of 40 Wellington school properties.

This issue covers our human nature of feeling twice as much pain from an investment loss as we do pleasure from a gain, and while it can be tempting to view our investments daily, the key to long-term investment success is being invested over the longer term.

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

This month we take a deep look at SRI vs ESG investing. A growing number of investors want to encourage companies to act responsibly in addition to delivering financial returns. ESG and SRI are often used interchangeably, but have important differences.