Leighton Roberts

Kia ora, welcome to Shared Lunch, brought to you by Sharesies.

My name's Leighton Roberts.

At the moment we've got pressure at the supermarket and the gas pump, mortgage stress and weak property markets.

Yet equity markets are hitting record highs and tech is booming.

If you're feeling uncertain, you're not alone.

So for some perspective, I'm joined by someone who spends a lot of time helping everyday people make sense of this.

It's Chartered Accountant and Keep the Change host, Luke Chemies.

But before we get started, here's some important information.

Investing involves risk.

You might lose the money you start with.

We recommend talking to a licensed financial advisor.

We also recommend reading product disclosure documents before deciding to invest.

Everything you're about to see and hear is current at the time of recording.

Welcome back Luke.

Yes, stoked to be here again.

It's great to have you here.

And it's interesting times.

We've got all this global instability happening on one hand.

And on the other hand, we're in the middle of some of the largest numbers we've ever seen at Sharesies with regards to investment coming in, which is quite sort of counter what we were thinking and forecasting and stuff.

And then also this new tech and this optimism around that.