Investments

For investors, 2022 was a turbulent year. Investors saw a decline in the value of their shares, homeowners saw their home values fall by the most significant margin in decades, and savers were disadvantaged since interest rates increased but failed to keep up with inflation. In that case, where can we expect to find promising investment prospects in the next year? To find out, we consulted the professionals. In an interview with CNBC, Mark Lister, investment director at Craigs Investment Partners, predicted that the real economy will be hit worse than the financial markets. Although the financial markets struggled in

There is one way to gain a sense of what will happen to Australian property values in 2023, notwithstanding the impossibility of predicting the future: look over the ditch. Since the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) began the current interest rate increase cycle in October 2021, New Zealand has served as a leading indicator for property markets and economies across the developed world. While some central banks, such as the RBA, were slow to join the campaign to combat inflation, other central banks worldwide followed the RBNZ in rapidly increasing interest rates. Since they were high in November last