Newsletter – October 2025

This month we check in on the NZ Economy and the role of GDP as an indicator of growth.

This issue covers the importance of being invested, through the highs and lows, over the longer term.

Our theme this month is the inflation taming efforts of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the link between inflation and interest rates.

This month we discuss currency – the opportunities a weaker New Zealand dollar creates for your investments and how we cushion against currency volatility.

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.

Our theme this month is Albert Einstein’s Eighth Wonder of the World – The Power of Compounding.