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Mint Asset Management portfolio manager, John Middleton, zooms in on how NZ fund managers have adapted to the new reality after two years of Covid disruption…   With the days of lockdown hopefully now behind us and the threat of Covid becoming less alarming and disruptive, we thought it would be interesting to write about… [Read More…]

Rebecca Thomas, Mint chief executive chief officer, explains why women need financial confidence – and how to get it…   A report on Financial Wellbeing of Women, released in December 2021 by the Financial Services Council (FSC), revealed that perceived confidence, preparation and investment literacy among women when it comes to their finances is low…. [Read More…]

OMNIMax Managing Director, Jonathan Taylor and Pauline Davis, Head of Technology for the BNZ Wealth Business, have a quality conversation about OMNIMax OMNIEngage – the digital solution keeping advisers and clients on the same page…   There has been a lot of talk around the code of conduct focusing on good customer outcomes and meeting… [Read More…]

David Fyfe, portfolio manager of the Mint Asset Management New Zealand SRI Equity Fund, plots the past, present and future of ESG investing…   When Mint began our journey on including ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors into our process many years ago, a common question was often: “Why would you, surely you are just… [Read More…]

In a stark case of ‘be careful what you wish for’, back in 2020 inflation was below central bankers target ranges, and they were asking their governments to loosen the fiscal purse strings to help get things going again. Fast forward to now and inflation around the world is above most central bank’s target ranges,… [Read More…]

Mint Asset Management 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… [Read More…]

Can real asset investors decarbonise to future-proof portfolios? Transforming the built environment is critical to decarbonising our economy. Carbon emissions from buildings and infrastructure are responsible for 60 per cent of emissions globally1. In the UK, 80 per cent of buildings standing in 2050 will have already been built2 and across the developing world buildings… [Read More…]

Can investors help reform markets and combat climate change? Some years ago, we had an ESG lightbulb moment. For all the good we managed to achieve through our micro-level corporate engagements, they would be meaningless if we failed to address existential market failures at the macro level. The answer was to find a way of… [Read More…]

Mint Asset Management portfolio manager, David Fyfe, explains the rationale and reality of responsible investing in a world increasingly attuned to environmental, social and governance factors… Responsible investing is generally acknowledged as the inclusion of factors, such as environmental and societal issues, into the investment process alongside the traditional financial analysis. Recently, we saw the… [Read More…]

Forest Enterprises says more investors looking to forestry sector after Covid-19. One benefit of investing in forestry, says Bert Hughes, CEO and Forestry Director of Forest Enterprises, is that it is not affected by the short-term peaks and troughs of the economy. It’s much less prone to unexpected economic shocks that can shake the share… [Read More…]