Newsletter – September 2025

This month we showcase three companies within the Booster Innovation Fund – Mars Bioimaging, Hot Lime Labs and MACSO Technologies. These companies are prime examples of high-potential, early-stage investment built on NZ innovation.

This month we unpack diversification. Diversification is a strategy to lower investment risk by spreading money across and within different asset classes, such as shares, bonds and cash. It’s one of the best ways to weather market ups and downs and maintain the potential for growth.

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 shows the methods used to support returns during periods of market volatility. Using the New Zealand dollar as a ‘shock absorber’.

Our theme this month is Californian based Fisher Investments. As one of our specialist international investment managers, Fisher Investments play an important role in many of our funds, complementing our broader global equity exposures.

The Booster Wine Group, now the Tahi Fund’s largest investment, is an amalgamation of four prominent New Zealand wine companies spanning the Hawke’s Bay, Nelson, Marlborough, and Central Otago regions. This month we showcase the upgraded facility at the Awatere River Winery in Marlborough.