Newsletter – June 2022

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.

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

This month we lift the lid on shareholder voting. Our aim is to ensure that the companies that you are invested in are well-governed, responsible corporate citizens, and acting in your best interests.

This issue shows the methods used to support returns during periods of market volatility. Using the New Zealand dollar as a ‘shock absorber’.

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.