Tony’s interest rate review – March 2023
Most NZ interest rates have peaked In my last column two months ago I noted that the factors affecting interest rates in New Zealand were
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Tony’s areas of expertise include macroeconomic analysis with a focus on housing market dynamics, and since going independent in 2019 has developed a series of six monthly surveys which give unique coalface insights into aspects of the NZ economy. The surveys include that with mortgages.co.nz covering mortgage advisors, a survey of real estate agents with REINZ, a survey of consumers and another of businesses on his list of 25,000 subscribers. He also conducts a monthly survey of property investors with Crockers Property Management, and of personal investors with Sharesies.
Experience
Seven years with Westpac Bank in Sydney then New Zealand from 1987 including a year and a half speaking each morning with Paul Holmes about exchange rates and the economy. One year with a sharebroking firm in Wellington as their sole economist then recruited by BNZ as Deputy Chief Economist in 1993 before being appointed Chief Economist from late-1994 before leaving in late-2019. Tony pent five years in total working in dealing rooms but from 1994-2019 travelled extensively around the country making presentations on the economy and wrote a large number of weekly and monthly publications and newspaper columns
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