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Welcome to the December Manager Panel! Each month, where relevant, InvestNow will ask some of our fund managers some questions about a topic. Read below some of our fund managers investment outlooks for 2022. Stuart Millar, CIO - Smartshares Q1: What do you think are the top three things that will have the greatest influence…

Mint Asset Management’s Head of Sales and Marketing, David Boyle, looks back on his hit-picks for the industry in 2021... and forward to another compliant year. Someone a lot smarter than me once advised me: “Boyle sometimes you need to look back to go forward.” And while I have been in a rush to say…

Congratulations to all the fund managers we work with, who recently won awards at the Research IP Fund Manager of the Year Awards for 2021. See below the winning fund managers and funds that we have here on InvestNow. Announcing the Winners Fund Manager of the Year Milford Asset Management KiwiSaver Fund Manager of the…

Welcome to the Manager Panel! Each month, InvestNow will ask a few of our fund managers some questions about a topic. Read below their thoughts on currency-hedged funds, in regards to the November article  — Currency hedging for Kiwi fund investors: The easy way to steer safe in the $2.4 quadrillion tide. George Carter, Managing…

Whether it’s for KiwiSaver, a personalised Managed Funds portfolio or bank Term Deposits for your rainy-day monies – InvestNow puts you in the driver’s seat. InvestNow is an online investment platform that is Kiwi-owned and operated. We are a team of leading investment experts, with decades of combined experience and expertise behind us. We provide…

Buy-low, sell-high is the stock-standard advice for generating capital returns on investment assets. Unfortunately, the self-evident piece of folk wisdom does not come with any practical guidance on how to spot the ideal buying and selling moments. And anyone familiar with the ups and downs of investment markets has likely reached the frustrating conclusion that…

On any given day about US$6.6 trillion courses through global foreign exchange markets, according to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), in a constant tidal movement of cross-border financial flows. Estimates from the BIS, the central bank for central banks, put the entire value of tradable world currencies in 2019 at over US$2.4 quadrillion –…

Nothing comes for free in this world, but price isn’t everything. Indeed, while most people are cost-conscious (otherwise supermarkets wouldn’t run ‘special offers’), they are also usually prepared to pay more for perceived quality or ‘value’. But for managed fund investors the concept of ‘value for money’ – now a major focus for the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) –…

Key Points: Focus on net returns after tax – that’s what you get to keep Differences in fees are quickly overwhelmed by differences in investment style The best measure of a manager’s inherent performance is the 5-year average net returns Focus On What You Get To Keep There’s a lot of focus on fund management…

Welcome to the Manager Panel! Each month to supplement the lead article in InvestNow's Magazine, InvestNow will ask a few of our Fund Managers some questions around a topic. Read below their thoughts on cryptocurrencies, in regards to the September lead article  — Crypto-facto: Investing in the digital asset age. Pie Funds - Mike Taylor,…

In a little over 10 years the concept of ‘cryptocurrency’ has emerged from an obscure technical paper outlining a new software protocol for geeks to become a global phenomenon valued by some measures at over US$2 trillion. However, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous author of the 2008 paper that introduced ‘bitcoin’ to the world, never used the…

For those investors in one or more of the Hunter Investment Management range of funds, for your managed funds and/or KiwiSaver portfolio, below are two important updates with regards to the ownership and management of these funds. Hunter Global Fixed Interest Fund Here is the announcement from Harbour Asset Management: “...As of 30 September, Harbour…