Newsletter – July 2022

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 month we showcase three companies within the Booster Innovation Fund – Mars Bioimaging, Hot Lime Labs and MACSO Technologies. These companies are prime examples of high-potential, early-stage investment built on NZ innovation.

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 month our theme is discussing the surge in artificial intelligence (AI) investment and how this has contributed to robust returns in global equity markets.

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

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