Quarterly Commentaries
The investment team spend a lot of their time thinking about individual stocks, markets and all sorts of other related (or often unrelated) topics. These get filtered through the quarter with the (hopefully) more interesting ones making it into our quarterly commentaries. These can be found below - we hope you find them interesting reading.
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April 2019
This investment commentary contains the following articles: Quarter in review Defining risk Risk parity – model or myth Future NZ Equity returns – revisited This quarter we review a strong period for equities and bonds. We then discuss the various definitions of market risk, and... -
January 2019
This investment commentary contains the following articles: Quarter in review 8 reasons to be optimistic about 2019 Time to invest in gold? Downside protection Happy New Year! Market volatility is the theme of this quarter’s commentaries. We start by reviewing a volatile last quarter of 2018.... -
October 2018
This investment commentary contains the following articles: Quarter in review A week in review, October 11th Portfolio Insurance Quality or Value? Only three articles this quarter, but ... -
July 2018
This investment commentary contains the following articles: Quarter in review Sell downs by founders. In June we saw the good the bad and the ugly. To be or not to be? (A conglomerate.) Corporate Values - worth the effort? Dire Straits ... -
April 2018
This investment commentary contains the following articles: Quarter in review Fund activity! Time to get climbing? Governance versus alignment We first review a volatile but positive quarter. We then discuss our higher-than-usual investment activity in “Fund activity!”....