Newsletter – October 2025

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

Our theme this month is private income investments – an asset class that is quietly becoming one of the fastest-growing parts of the investment world.

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 making sense of the “Liberation Day” tariffs, how these events unfolded and what this means for your investments.

This month’s theme is the benefits of active management. Active management allows us to manage specific risks, adjust to market conditions, and uncover hidden investment opportunities. Dutch company ASML has been an exciting recent success story.

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).