{"id":35524,"date":"2025-09-21T21:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35524\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:07:06","slug":"nz-investor-confidence-drops-to-covid-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35524\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ investor confidence drops to Covid lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis has led to a more pessimistic tone in overall investor confidence, which seems to be suffering from the same weak sentiment we\u2019re seeing in consumer confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">The survey shows general confidence is highest among those under 39 years old, with those over 60 the least optimistic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">More than half (51%) said they were very concerned about the impact of global political instability or uncertainty on investments, while 47% felt this way about international geopolitical tension and conflict and 43% about international trade policies, including tariffs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Half of those who had concerns had made, or considered making, changes to their investments as a result. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThese global issues were really impacting many investments around April in a negative way, but subsequently markets have improved a lot and are now knocking around record highs in the case of the US sharemarket,\u201d Tennent-Brown said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnderstandably, global issues are still weighing on Kiwi investors\u2019 minds and there is still a lot of uncertainty both here and abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Tennent-Brown said the second quarter highlighted the importance of sticking with long-term strategies and savings goals, rather than chopping and changing to try and time markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis has led to a more pessimistic tone in overall investor confidence, which seems to be suffering from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,2950,8607,28796,13989,5933,13419,25449,33091,32854,111,139,69,13218,13420,7811,8822,61],"class_list":["post-35524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-confidence","tag-covid","tag-drops","tag-fell","tag-investor","tag-june","tag-level","tag-lowest","tag-lows","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pandemic","tag-quarter","tag-since","tag-survey","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}