Newsletter – February 2023

Responsible Investing at Booster and our backing of two climate-focused investor initiatives – the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC).

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

This month our theme is the OCR and how and why this is an important benchmark of an economy’s health.

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.

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.