InvestNow News 23rd Aug – Fisher Funds – Expanding your horizons with global shares

Find out how global shares can be rewarding and reduce risk – Fisher Funds

Kiwis love to travel. Extending the same adventurous spirit to your investment portfolio can be rewarding and reduce risk.

Having grown up in small town New Zealand I always wanted to travel. See the world, explore big cities, see the bright lights. Many Kiwis have the travel bug and our travel stats show that we love to travel to exotic locations – we don’t just jump across the ditch.

While we may be adventurous travellers, when […]

By Mike Heath|2019-08-26T14:13:23+12:00August 23rd, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments

InvestNow News 23rd Aug – Fisher Funds – 21 years of Fisher Funds performance

How much could your money have grown?

Bruce McLachlan – Chief Executive Officer – 22 August, 2019

Happy 21^st

You can hear their advocates yelling from the rooftops, and from every podium they can access. The global trend in funds management is overwhelmingly towards low-cost passive funds. There is a school of thought (often communicated more like a religion) that says active managers cannot beat the market on […]

By Mike Heath|2019-08-23T12:17:05+12:00August 23rd, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments

InvestNow News 16th August – Legg Mason – Will Business and Consumer Confidence Converge?

Global consumer and business confidence have diverged—a trend that started in 2018, but is otherwise pretty rare, only occurring two other times over the last 30+ years. These two sentiment factors previously diverged in the periods after the East Asian and European sovereign debt but as the chart below shows, these divergences in sentiment don’t last.

While the global economy hasn’t recently experienced a huge […]

By Mike Heath|2019-08-16T12:59:22+12:00August 16th, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments

InvestNow News 16th August – AMP Capital – How do you rate investment managers on responsible investing?

One of the challenges of responsible investing is measuring the impact that investments are actually making on society and on the environment.

Signing up to the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) is one way a manager can how show commitment to investing responsibly and measuring its impact. The PRI […]

By Mike Heath|2019-08-16T12:54:27+12:00August 16th, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments

InvestNow News 16th August – AMP Capital – Audit Report and Financial Statements

Independent Audit Report

Please find below a link to the Independent Audit Report as part of the 2018 Financial Statement Audit for the AMP Capital Global Property Securities Fund, AMP Capital Global Listed Infrastructure Fund and AMP Capital Global Companies Fund.

The Audit was completed by ESV as part of an additional requirement for these Funds to comply with the US Custody Rule for Pooled Investment Vehicles (Rule 206(4) -2, of the […]

By Mike Heath|2019-08-16T12:49:43+12:00August 16th, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments

InvestNow News 16th August – Morphic – July 2019 Performance Update

Ethical Investing in Focus

In amongst the gloom of record heatwaves in Greenland in July, that is seeing rates of ice melt originally expected to occur in 2050, there are some slivers of good news. It can be hard to quantify, yet there is a perceptible mood shift taking place in the world. As a recognition of climate issues more broadly, even if governments try to impede it, consumers are voting with […]

By Mike Heath|2019-08-16T12:43:31+12:00August 16th, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments

InvestNow News 16th August – Elevation – July 2019 Fund Update

The July 2019 fund update is available here.

By Mike Heath|2019-08-16T12:37:57+12:00August 16th, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments

InvestNow News 16th August – Milford – A closer look at Port of Napier’s IPO

By Mike Heath|2019-08-16T13:13:44+12:00August 16th, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments

InvestNow News 16th August – Milford – What’s the X Factor that produces business winners?

In this short video, […]

By Mike Heath|2019-08-16T13:20:32+12:00August 16th, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments

InvestNow News 16th August – Milford – Confronting NZ’s infrastructure issues

Frances Sweetman – Senior Analyst – July 30, 2019

Investing in infrastructure can help the economy become more productive, but balancing short-term needs with long-term needs is a delicate undertaking. Senior Analyst Frances Sweetman discusses this and more in our latest video.

By Mike Heath|2019-08-16T12:19:44+12:00August 16th, 2019|Fund Manager News|0 Comments