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Politics, growth and inflation

Tuesday 18th of February 2014

In the last two decades New Zealand election years have been non-events for investors. Normally we would say that important secular trends and company fundamentals over-ride an election year impact on equities.

Statistically since 1987 there is has been no real evidence of an election year effect. On average the equity return of the New Zealand market has roughly matched that of global e...

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