Newsletter – November 2021

This month our theme this month is time in the market vs timing the market. Avoiding the perils of emotionally driven investment decisions, which can often lead to missed opportunities and lower overall returns.

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

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 we explore how US businesses have coped following President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs in April, and outline the state of the general US economy.

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.