Financial Investments In New Zealand

We believe that although New Zealand is a small market it provides unique investment opportunities. For large funds New Zealand is generally too small a market to have a sufficiently size team based locally. However, for an investor who is interested to seize opportunities New Zealand is the place off the the well-beaten path.

According to studies that compare New Zealand against other OECD countries, the two most important areas for improvements are:

• Financial markets
• Innovation and Research and Development (R&D)

We believe that both areas provide opportunities if you are aware of the particular risks.

• Risks
• Banks

Recent Articles

• Delegats Group Half Year Results to Dec '09 Disappoint
• CPI in New Zealand at 3.2% per Dec '07

Economic Data

	Dec 2007	Sep 2007	June 2007
Population		4.240 mill.
Total Employed		2.150 mill.	2.157 mill.
Unemployment Rate		3.5%	3.6%
GDP Growth (quarter to quarter)			0.7%
CPI (quarter to quarter)			0.5%
CPI (year to year)	3.2%	1.8%

Labor Market

The labor market is small and people have a tendency to move faster that in some other economies. Swapping jobs after 2 to 4 years is not out of the ordinary and people have spent with the same company over more than 10 or 20 years are rare. Information about the New Zealand labor market, in particular IT, is regularly updated here.

Sources: Statistics New Zealand, own calculations

Last updated: 06-Mar-2010