Newsletter – September 2024

This month our theme is ‘shock absorbers’, the strategies we employ to reduce the effects of market volatility on your investments.

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

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is getting tough on inflation. The relationship between interest rates and inflation and what this means for your investments.

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

This issue covers built-in ‘shock absorbers’ within your portfolio to cushion the effect of market volatility.