InvestNow founder opens up

Anthony Edmonds is a fund guy.

With a professional lineage tracing back to Southpac in the early 1990s, and AMP Capital Investors for more than a decade, Edmonds has spent his entire career in the industry.

Along the way he has racked up a hard-won knowledge of the inner-workings of a business that – despite new disclosure regulations – can still seem opaque to outsiders.

As well as an appreciation of the nuances of investment management, Edmonds has absorbed a […]

Zane Doran needed a family trust, so he set one up online.

It took him 10 minutes, maybe 15.

Doran is a modern phenomenon, a person whose money life is now conducted almost entirely online.

He banks online. He switched his KiwiSaver to Simplicity online. He […]

Ryan Johnson – Money for Young Kiwis

May 13, 2017

This week I’ve got a chat with Anthony Edmonds, Managing Director of InvestNow. InvestNow is a brand new investing platform based in New Zealand. The main big deal about InvestNow is that it gives you direct accessto buy into Vanguard funds (among others).

This is really exciting because normally to get into these funds you’ve got to pay someone else money to do it. That’s your money you want to be investing!

I’ve had quite […]

12th May 2017

Harbour Asset Management have advised us of a change to the structure of the Harbour Income Fund – effective Monday 19th June 2017.

For full details, please refer to the letter and Statement of Investment Policy & Objectives (SIPO) below:

• Letter – Amendments to the Retail Income Fund May 17 PIPs
• Retail Income Fund SIPO effective 19 June 2017 FINAL

Should you have any further questions with regards to this update, please contact Harbour Asset Management  – (04) 460 8300 or 

2nd May 2017

Innovative NZ-owned online direct-to-consumer funds platform, InvestNow, has signed on another high-profile local manager, bringing further diversity to its rapidly-expanding product range.

Under the just-inked agreement, InvestNow clients will be able to access a suite of five Fisher Funds products, covering a number of different asset classes and risk levels.

Anthony Edmonds, InvestNow founder, said Fisher Funds – launched almost 20 years ago by iconic NZ investment manager, Carmel Fisher – was excited about the potential of using technology to connect with a new segment of the investor market.

“Over the […]

19th April 2017

Harbour Asset Management has partnered with online investment platform InvestNow to offer all their retail funds to direct investors.

Andrew Bascand, Managing Director at Harbour Asset Management, said InvestNow offered the firm an ideal digital solution for self-directed investors looking to access its funds.

Bascand said some investors were increasingly demanding the ability to transact and control their own portfolio online – and this demand for choice was a trend the industry could not ignore.

“We recognise that many New Zealanders want choice […]

April 23rd, 2017

A new clutch of managers has signed on with online fund platform, InvestNow, with five Fisher Funds products first off the rank.

InvestNow founder, Anthony Edmonds, said as well as Fisher a queue of other well-known NZ managers including Devon, Nikko, Salt and the NZX-owned SmartShares would soon go live on the platform.

Edmonds said the latest batch of managers would complement the foundation roster of products offered by the likes of Vanguard, Russell Investments, Mint, Harbour and AMP Capital.

For […]

Christian Hawkesby, Executive Director

Head of Fixed Interest and Economics

Harbour Asset Management

Some superstitious investors worry about the chance of a global recession in 2017. They figure that the stockmarket crash in 1987, Asian crisis in 1997 and start of the GFC in 2007 make this the obvious year for troubles in markets.   While it is difficult to find an economist that will forecast a recession, the maturity of the business cycle does warrant some caution.   However, first we need to see more signs of consumer price inflation. So 2019 may […]

Tamsyn Parker – Money Editor for NZ Herald

Friday, 17 March 2017

A new online platform will offer mum and dad investors the chance to access a range of investment funds which normally require hundreds of thousands of dollars as a minimum direct entry.

Investors using the InvestNow platform will only need $1000 to gain access to funds from global fund managers Vanguard and Russell Investments and local fund managers Harbour Asset Management, AMP Capital and Mint Asset Management.

The $1000 can be split across four funds with a minimum of investment of […]

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March 6, 2017

KiwiSavers wanting to save more than the minimum needed to get their full employer and government contributions are getting a new option that doesn’t involve locking their money away until they retire.

Low-cost, index-tracking fund provider Simplicity will today start taking registrations of interest for its fund range, which will mirror its KiwiSaver scheme, except that money can be withdrawn at any time.

Simplicity’s launch follows that of Invest Now, an online funds supermarket through which people can start saving alongside of their KiwiSaver.