Let’s not kid ourselves, investment markets are chaotic, noisy and self-centred – just like children.

Over the long term, though, markets settle down into pattern-like behaviour that rewards the patient investor in proportion to risk. (Disclaimer: this argument cannot be applied to children under 18.)

Of course, in the midst of a market hissy-fit it’s a little more difficult to remember that this will all be worth it one day. And, for the first time in many years, markets are testing investor tolerance in 2018 with a series of public tantrums.

In February, […]

InvestNow clients know what they want. But why do they want it?

“That’s what we want to know,” says Mike Heath, InvestNow general manager, “so we asked them.”

Heath says the InvestNow survey sent out earlier this month, yielding over 300 responses, found the platform’s clients are strategically-focused investors.

Excluding performance, about 75 per cent of respondents ranked the overall investment approach as important when selecting a fund manager. Investment team experience also ranked highly (60 per cent) in determining fund manager choice, he says.

“Those […]

And the award for the best-performing asset class for the 10-year period ending June 2017 goes to (wait for the drum roll)…

GLOBAL BONDS!

A shock result perhaps, but this is no envelope malfunction à la La La Land.

According to Auckland-based consulting firm Melville Jessup Weaver (MJW), offshore bonds were the place to be for NZ investors from the onset of the global financial crisis (GFC) in September 2008 until almost exactly a decade later.

The MJW September 2017 quarter NZ investment survey, which plotted the performance of the five main asset classes […]

Thank you if you took part in our recent survey, where we asked customers how they would respond to a material correction in global equities.  It’s really important to us that our investors are asking themselves the “what-if” questions, so they are prepared for possible future events.

Rob Stock, Sunday Star Times, wrote a piece on what you told us.

Take a look at his spin on it here.

Rob Stock – November 12 2017

You may recall the article in our November magazine, where we surveyed our customers, asking them whether they  would buy, sell or sit still if global share markets fell by 10 per cent in the space of a week, and if that was followed by a further 20 per cent over a week.

Rob Stock (Fairfax Media) also referred to the survey results, for his article  in the Sunday Star Times last weekend … have […]

2nd September 2017

We featured in Patrick Smellie’s “The Smart Money”, in the recent edition of the Listener.

Written by Sophie Boot, she focussed on “a new class of online platforms, giving mum-and-dad investors, student investors or young professionals with a spare bit of cash more options than ever to invest their money themselves”.

Click the thumbnail to download the full article as a pdf.

Last year the New Zealand funds management industry apparently experienced the financial equivalent of a religious conversion, switching en masse to the ‘socially responsible investment’ (SRI) persuasion.

In less than 12 months, according to the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA), the amount of NZ funds devoted to SRI jumped from $1.6 billion to about $43 billion – an increase of almost 2,700 per cent.

Simon O’Connor, RIAA chief, said the NZ survey result was “one of the most significant global changes to happen to the [SRI] sector in 2016”.

“We have never […]