On the Money: Equiticorp, Luxon's mornings, EMA computer troubles and more

On the Money: Equiticorp, Luxon's mornings, EMA computer troubles and more
Should you trust Allan Hawkins? Turns out the answer was probably not. (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
On the Money is our weekly newsletter of general frippery from the worlds of business and government.OTM readers may not have noticed, but Wednesday marked 36 years since the ignominious collapse of Equiticorp Holdings. The case was presided over by BusinessDesk founding editor Pattrick Smellie’s father, retired High Court Judge Robert Smellie, and is probably the longest liquidation in NZ history – not that there is a ranking available for such things. We've been told it was the longest judgment ever written in NZ at...

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