On the Money: Piyush Goyal, Nikhil Ravishankar, Todd McClay, RBNZ and more

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Sat, 08 Nov 2025

On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.Sky TV chair Philip Bowman has gobbled up more shares in Amano owner Savor, with entrepreneur Geoff Ross being the latest to sell down.Disclosure notices show Bowman this week increased his stake from 8.32% to 10.6%.He did this by purchasing some shares from investment firm Pioneer, but mostly by buying 1.5 million shares from Geoff and Justine Ross’ Ross Venture Capital Trust. The share parcel went for $345,000.The Ross...

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