InvestNow Update – August 23
When we last surveyed customers, you told us that our website is one of the main resources you use to do the research for making your investment decisions. Listening to what you told us, we have made some changes to the Fund Manager and Range of Funds pages on our website.
Providing a manager-centric view, these […]
Article written by InvestNow – 29 August 2023
Aristotle knew the value of early education.
“Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man,” the ancient Greek philosopher tweeted in the fourth century BC.
Gender neutrality issues aside, the Aristotle quote echoes a timeless truism that […]
Article written by InvestNow – 31 July 2023
In 2019 the government formally rebranded the popular KiwiSaver ‘contribution holiday’ as ‘savings suspension’ in an attempt to make the option seem less attractive, and hopefully discourage people from taking up the option of halting their KiwiSaver contributions.
The brand twist did not make an immediate impact: whether they viewed it as getting suspended or going on holiday, […]
Article written by InvestNow – 3rd July 2023
Kiwi consumers have a long history of getting the short end of the stick.
Perhaps it’s our small size, or the fact that we’re tucked away at the bottom of the world, but the general lack of innovation and competition in NZ has struck retail shoppers here with fewer and more expensive options compared to offshore counterparts.
Take […]
Article written by InvestNow – 1st June 2023
In the sharpest about-turn on record, the NZ official cash rate (OCR) has jumped from the historical low of 0.25% at the end of September 2021 to a possible plateau of 5.5% in May this year.
Proportionally, the OCR is now 22-times (or 2,200%) higher than the nadir that held for 18 months from March 2020.
Kiwi investors have noticed.
Following years […]
Article written by InvestNow – 1st June 2023
When surveyed, both new and current InvestNow customers, told us that our website was the most commonly used website for researching and managing their managed funds investment options. Whilst we found this to be really encouraging, we also received some clear feedback on how we can improve the customer experience through enhanced content and making it easier to access everything you need.
We are pleased […]
Article written by InvestNow – 27th April 2023
Stuff happens all the time.
Stuff such as the November 2021 float of NZ-founded shoe company, Allbirds, on the US stock market.
“Investors in Allbirds could have almost doubled their money,” ran the Stuff headline the following day.
The Stuff article quoted then-head of US share-trading outfit, Hatch, Kristen Lunman, talking up the “exciting” Allbirds buzz.
Hatch, along with fellow […]
Article written by Dave Tyrer, Chief Operating Officer from Squirrel – 23rd April 2023
People pretty much have four main options when it comes to investing their money: cash, property, equities, and bonds or debt.
Globally, it’s the latter – debt markets – which are the largest and deepest. And, of course, debt comes in a variety of flavours, all backed by different types […]
Article written by InvestNow – 27th April 2023
Passive investment firm, Simplicity, has replaced Vanguard as its offshore assets manager in a move set to fix a well-documented tax problem that similar InvestNow funds were designed to avoid.
Under the news announced last week, Simplicity will swap several Vanguard Australian unit trusts (AUTs) for some New Zealand-based portfolio investment entity funds managed by the German firm, DWS.
The Deutsche Bank-owned DWS […]
Article written by InvestNow – 30th March 2023
Short-term interest rates have gone from next to zero to 4% plus in next to no time over the last 18 months.
The pace of rate hikes has been the fastest in decades even if the cruising speed remains well below historical highs.
From August 2021, for instance, the Reserve Bank of NZ (RBNZ) has juiced up the official cash rate from […]
