ep 370 | Don't let your home bias be your downfall
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What is home bias and why is it significant for investors?
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Hey team, hope you're all well. Today I want to talk about why we shouldn't let our home bias be our downfall when it comes to investing.
How do different countries exhibit home bias in investing?
Now, wherever you go in the world, it is very common for investors everywhere to have a home bias because people tend to anchor their portfolio with what they know, and that is usually their local market. So Kiwis often have a healthy exposure to New Zealand shares. The Australians usually start with what's listed on the ASX, the Australian Stock Exchange, and Americans are renowned for not really looking very far past their own borders. That is all natural because, as humans, we gravitate to what we know best, and that is often what's closest to home. That can also feel like a much safer approach, especially for newer investors who are having their first experience with buying shares or investing in shares.
People in New Zealand are familiar with the likes of Genesis Energy, Sky TV, Air New Zealand. We use their products, we buy their services, and it feels safer. But it is not safer, especially for us. It is much riskier.
What are the risks of concentrating investments in a local market?
Being concentrated in a small market like ours exposes you to much more risk than spreading your capital across dozens of countries across the world. One of the broadest global share market indices is what they call the MSCI ACWI, Investable Market Index. In the industry, we call that the MISCI ACWI. acwi stands for all country world index so this is basically a proxy for world shares the whole world and this index covers 47 different share markets around the world unsurprisingly the united states is the most dominant region it has a weighting in this index of 63 World's biggest economy, world's biggest share market, makes sense. Japan is 5.5%. The UK is 3.3%. Germany's 2%. Bunch of European countries are also around that level.
Emerging markets as a group.
What is the MSCI ACWI and why is it important for global investing?
Now that group includes the likes of China and India. That group is 11.3%. Australia, just 1.6%. Get this, New Zealand, 0.05%. Teeny tiny. Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't own any New Zealand shares at all in our portfolio. We have some fantastic businesses, we have some excellent leaders, and we should proudly support those by entrusting them with our capital. We also shouldn't forget that we get very favourable tax treatment for investing in our local market. No capital gains tax, no bright line test of any kind is applied to your New Zealand shares, as long as you're not a trader, and most of us aren't. Dividend payments as well, which are higher than average compared to many other regions, they come mostly tax paid because of our imputation regime.
How does New Zealand's investment landscape compare globally?
And what that means... is that when our companies on our market pay tax on their profits, they accrue imputation tax credits, and they can attach those tax credits to the dividend that they pass on to shareholders, and that means those shareholders, the investors, don't pay tax a second time. Now, apart from Australia and across the Tasman, they call these franking credits, same thing, franking credits over there, imputation credits here. I can't think of anywhere else that does this. There might be one or two other countries, but New Zealand and Australia are the main two. And those positives suggest that you can still have a modest allocation to local shares.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is home bias and why is it significant for investors?
0:00–0:56
2
How do different countries exhibit home bias in investing?
0:56–2:00
3
What are the risks of concentrating investments in a local market?
2:00–2:56
4
What is the MSCI ACWI and why is it important for global investing?
2:56–3:48
5
How does New Zealand's investment landscape compare globally?
3:48–5:10
6
What are the tax advantages of investing in New Zealand shares?
5:10–6:17
7
Why should investors diversify beyond New Zealand markets?
6:17–8:25
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