3 top ASX share picks for 2021 from NZ brokers

Brokers across the Tasman have been hard at work picking their top share ideas for 2021.

In a recent article, The New Zealand Herald surveyed six of the country’s top share brokers and asked them for their 5 top New Zealand share picks for 2021.

New Zealand’s benchmark NZX 50 Index (NZE: NZ50G) had a blinder of a year in 2020, returning 14% to 31 December, compared to precisely 0.1% for the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO). It’s a bit unfair to compare the two indexes given they have very different industry compositions, but clearly something good has been happening in NZ that is worth paying attention to. Fortunately, many of the biggest NZ companies are also listed on the ASX.

The survey asked brokers to choose the securities…