What’s the FMA scenario?

Predicting the future in a narrative form. (Image: Getty)

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

Downtown Auckland, 2029: Already, many of the surrounding buildings had disappeared beneath the proliferating vegetation. Huge club mosses and calamities blotted out the white rectangular faces, shading the lizards in their window lairs. Beyond the lagoon, the endless tides of silt had begun to accumulate into enormous glittering banks, here and there overtopping the shoreline like the immense tippings of some distant goldmine.Haunted by plunging harbourside property values, investors sought refuge in liquid alternatives, mostly unaware of...

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Pushpay insider trader loses conviction appeal

A prominent businessman found guilty in 2023 of insider trading over the sale of Pushpay Holdings shares is closer to being named, with the Court of Appeal increasing his fine and dismissing his bid for continued name suppression.The case brought by the Financial Markets Authorit...

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