Cooking the Books podcast: How to find recession-proof stocks

Investing through a recession can be a way to snap up bargains and build wealth for the future. Photo / NZME

Each week BusinessDesk and the NZ Herald’s Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it’s the investments that can do even better in a downturn. Hosted by Frances Cook.

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of investing through a recession as it can be a way to snap up bargains and build wealth for the future.

But what if you’re looking for something a little more immediate? Good investments that keep doing well even when the economy is down?

The current recession is the perfect test of this because some industries are actually going better than ever.

For the latest podcast, I talked to Milford Asset Management portfolio manager Sam Trethewey.

For the interview, listen to the podcast here.

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