Newsletter – September 2022

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 the inflation taming efforts of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the link between inflation and interest rates.

Our theme this month is diversification. Diversifying investments can mitigate risk by balancing the ups and downs of individual shares, and individual countries to reduce their impact on your entire portfolio. A diversified portfolio is more resilient because it’s designed to capture growth while providing relative security during market downturns.

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.

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.

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.