He Rauemi Hou mō Te Ao Māori | New Resources for the Investment Sector
Tūhono mai, ako mai — connect, and learn.
TAHITO is privileged to have authored Ngā Rauemi mō Te Ao Māori — Resources for Understanding the Māori World View, a collection of five educational papers published by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) in February 2026.
These resources were written for fund managers, financial advisers, KiwiSaver providers, and institutional investors who want to understand what it means to operate within Te Ao Māori — the Māori world view — and why that understanding matters for the future of investment in Aotearoa New Zealand.
What the resources cover
The five papers move from foundation to practice. They begin with the core differences between Māori and Western world views — the relational, collective, and intergenerational thinking that sits at the heart of mātauranga Māori — and build toward practical tools for meaningful engagement.
Together they cover:
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Te Ao Māori and the Māori world view
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What a Māori community is and how to connect respectfully
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Why Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations matter for business and investment
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How to integrate Treaty principles into investment strategy
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How to embed Māori values — including kaitiakitanga, whanaungatanga, and mauri — into business and investing practice
The underlying message across all five papers is simple and profound: everything is connected. Capital, community, environment, and culture are not separate domains to be managed independently. They are woven together through whakapapa — and sustainable investment outcomes depend on understanding that weave.
Why TAHITO wrote Ngā Rauemi
TAHITO's investment methodology, Te Kōwhiringa Tapu (The Sacred Selection Process), is built entirely on this understanding. For more than a decade, we have applied ancestral Māori knowledge to the selection and assessment of listed companies — asking not just whether a company discloses good ESG practices, but whether those practices produce genuine collective wellbeing. The gap between those two questions is where our work lives.
Ngā Rauemi mō Te Ao Māori grew from the recognition that the broader investment sector needs a shared starting point. Māori economic participation is substantial and growing — Stats NZ data shows Māori authorities generating over $4 billion in annual sales — yet many investment practitioners still lack the cultural foundation to engage with that economy in a way that is informed, respectful, and genuinely productive.
These resources are our contribution to changing that.
Who can access Ngā Rauemi
The full five-paper collection is available free of charge to RIAA's membership network, which represents over NZ$83 trillion in assets under management across Australasia. That reach makes this the most widely distributed indigenous investment education resource ever produced in Australasian markets.
You can download the full collection directly from the RIAA website: responsibleinvestment.org
Iho taketaketia tō kaupapa — know what you're doing before you do anything.
This is not work we undertook for recognition. It is the logical expression of what TAHITO has always believed: that mātauranga Māori has something essential to offer the world of investment — not as a compliance add-on, but as a living framework for decisions that sustain people, place, and future generations alike.
Ngā mihi maioha ki a RIAA mō tā rātou tautoko — our deep gratitude to RIAA for their partnership in bringing these resources to life.