'Everybody starts building their own reality show': at the M&A coalface life goes on despite Trump's tariffs

'Everybody starts building their own reality show': at the M&A coalface life goes on despite Trump's tariffs
Jarden's Silvana Schenone says markets will price in the chaos, and move on. (Image: Supplied)
Rebecca Stevenson
Pioneer Capital’s co-founder Randal Barrett says the private equity firm has been working with economists to scenario plan ever since US President Donald Trump came back into power.Pioneer Capital focuses its investments on outward-looking growing New Zealand firms, and many are potentially facing an impact from Trump’s tariff regime – and those impacts could be good or bad, Barrett said.Some of its investment companies, including Coffee Supreme and natural appetite suppressant Calocurb, could benefit from NZ’s relativel...

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