On the Money: Rod Duke gets going, Hartley Atkinson, Cathie Wood, and more

On the Money: Rod Duke gets going, Hartley Atkinson, Cathie Wood, and more
Rod Duke, NZ's retail king. (Image: Getty)
Rebecca Stevenson
Welcome to On the Money, our column about money and the people making itBriscoe’s Rod Duke is a great example of the old American football rallying call: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”His sharemarket wealth has more than doubled during the pandemic.On March 23, 2020, just seven days after the retailer declared a final dividend of 12.5 cents for its January 2020 year, directors revealed this dividend was being cancelled because of the government’s lockdown. The dividend cancellation announceme...

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