Newsletter – September 2025

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

Introducing our new Australian Active manager, DNR Capital, and a taste of their investment philosophy.

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 our theme is why things still feel sluggish despite indicators suggesting that the NZ economy is entering the early stages of recovery.