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Financial advisers need to work harder: Bagrie

In a wide ranging economic update Cameron Bagrie gives his views on investment strategies, the changing property market and his relief that the regulator is taking some action.

Wednesday, November 9th 2022, 8:13AM 4 Comments

Economist Cameron Bagrie says with markets and economies going through significant change investment strategies need to be reviewed.

Bagrie says people need to rethink their investment approach a markets go through significant change. He says that the next 10 years will not be like that past 30 years.

He told advisers at the Lifetime conference in Wellington this week that passive investment strategies won't work in this changing environment.

He also questioned whether "standard portfolios are fit for purpose given the structural changes (going on)?"

The answer to his question was no.

Advisers needed to consider the reintroduction of cash and also take on risk.

"Economic sanity is starting to return and you need to take real risk to make real money," he said.

One positive he took out of the changes is his view that "housing is no longer a one way bet." New Zealand looked to be at an inflection point and moving away from property as the main form of investment to the productive sector."

Another warning was that the implementation of ESG carries costs for businesses.

Bagrie also told advisers that the growing cohort of retirees, including the baby boomers, had a lot of money, around $542 billion, and how they spent it would have a significant economic impact.

"I would be stopping interest rate hikes," Bagrie said if he was the shoes of the Reserve Bank governor.

The impact of interest rate increases still had some time to flow through to borrowers as the majority of fixed home loans were still on low fixed rates.

"There's still a lot of pain to come," he said.

Bagrie said the economy was not in good shape and one of things that was required to tackle inflation was to get unemployment up off its historic lows.

"We need bad news to deliver good news," he said.

While he warned there were lots of issues that needed solving his overall takeaway 

One of his warnings was about the plethora of multiple units being built in various urban areas around New Zealand.

He says too many are being built and this sector has "train smash written all over it."

Last week he issued a round "hallelujah" when the Financial Markets Authority issued a warning to property development companies issuing offers to wholesale investors. 

He also said there was now a growing divergence between housing consents being issued and Code of Compliance certificates being granted. The gap is widening which suggest there are some problems emerging in the construction sector.

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On 9 November 2022 at 12:15 pm Pragmatic said:
I think that the claim that “…advisers must work harder…” is unfair & misleading, as I’m aware that many industry participants are currently flat out.

I would suggest that the industry (including advisers) must work ‘differently’ than they have previously and understand that many of the positive attributes that have existed over the past 3 decades no longer exist. Now more than ever advisers must embrace a changing consumer, more volatile markets, normalized returns (if you’re lucky), and increased value sensitivity rather than being complacent. This will require a pragmatic (pun intended) approach to portfolio design.
On 9 November 2022 at 3:26 pm John Milner said:
I have a lot of respect for Cameron but if I had a dollar over the last decade for every time I heard it’s different this time, nimble active managers are placed best in this market, throw away your old portfolios, the next decade will be down to single digits, I’d be doing very nicely. Looking at a number of nimble active managers lately, we’re in trouble. The only double digits I see are their fees :-(
Nice bit of entertainment all the same.
On 10 November 2022 at 6:54 am Pragmatic said:
If I had a dollar every time people confused the active/passive debate with price I’d be rich.

If you are pursuing beta for a portfolio, then this is commoditised, and accordingly obtained for a low single digit expense. Anything more will become increasingly difficult to justify.

If you believe that exploitable alpha exists, then these are many & varied, change over time (ie: there is no simple ‘active’ bucket to measure a consolidated universe), & requires effort to discover & monitor.

Anything else (eg: smart beta, ‘evidence based’, high tracking error active funds) are caught in the unenviable position of offering overpriced solutions that are usually wrapped in elaborate marketing to justify their existence.

In a ‘normalized’ return environment (ie: history tells us RF+5.5%), all industry participants will be asked to support their value proposition - eg: what do you do, & why am I paying you? Sadly the reliance on the past 30 years of falling rates to support the markets will fail those who remain complacent.

Put another way: there is a place for both low cost beta & alpha components in a portfolio - it just requires the ability to recognize which bit should be paid for.
On 10 November 2022 at 9:13 am Davidvs said:
In summary - the tailwind of structuring declining interest rates are gone so no more free lunches...

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