ANALYSIS: Capitalist economies tend to thrive when businesses can safely assume that governments will treat them fairly and consistently and that changes in regulations and taxes will be driven by broad policy objectives rather than erratic favouritism.
ANALYSIS: Growth companies’ share prices came under fire in 2022, but strong returns are the reward when pessimism proves unjustified.
ANALYSIS: Try to invest with management teams truly focused on adding value over the longer term and weed out short-term opportunists.
ANALYSIS: Small cap investing has been challenging in 2022, so what differentiates market cap levels for investors?
ANALYSIS: Pay attention to lessons from past, look to invest in underappreciated secular trends.
ANALYSIS: As awareness of ethical investing grows, consider historical outperformance of ethically murky stocks.
ANALYSIS: With gravity again applying its traditional force on asset prices, investing may be a harder slog in years ahead.
ANALYSIS: A close look at why Class A shares carry diminished voting power compared with unlisted B shares held primarily by management interests.
ANALYSIS: But some bargains may have started to emerge.
ANALYSIS: Strategically, there are clear diversification benefits from being exposed to both the NZ and global sharemarkets.
