ANALYSIS: Why banks don't pass on full OCR cuts
By Jenny Ruth | Fri, 18 Oct 2019
New Zealand's four major banks may be feeling battered as they await the Reserve Bank's final decisions on how much extra capital they're going to have to hold, but they should thank their lucky stars...
OPINION: FPAs and 'swallowing vomit' - the lot of the CTU
By Pattrick Smellie | Wed, 16 Oct 2019
Council of Trade Unions president Richard Wagstaff was kept waiting by the Workplace Relations Minister, Iain Lees-Galloway, at the CTU's biennial conference in Wellington on Wednesday. It was either...
ANALYSIS: Govt will have to pay up for high-rise and other construction
By Jenny Ruth | Sun, 22 Sep 2019
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 23 (BusinessDesk) - If New Zealand's construction industry is to thrive, the bottom line is that clients, particularly government ones, are going to have to pay more for buildin...
ANALYSIS: Should penalties for continuous disclosure breaches be relaxed?
By Jenny Ruth | Thu, 19 Sep 2019
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 19 (BusinessDesk) - Is the liability companies and directors face for breaches of NZX's continuous disclosure rules preventing people from becoming directors? Is the continuo...
ANALYSIS: Wealth management now wags the stock-broking dog
By Jenny Ruth | Sun, 15 Sep 2019
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 16 (BusinessDesk) - Could the lack of new listings on NZX be as simple as New Zealand not having enough traditional stock-broking and merchant banking firms? The capital mark...
COMMENT: Retail shareholder perspective missing in action in capital markets review
By Jenny Ruth | Tue, 10 Sep 2019
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 11 (BusinessDesk) - One glaring omission in the capital markets review committee's report this week is the point of view of retail shareholders which is largely missing in actio...
ANALYSIS: Vital investors foot the bill for ditching a dud idea
By Jenny Ruth | Sun, 01 Sep 2019
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 2 (BusinessDesk) - Investors were mightily relieved when Vital Healthcare Property Trust’s manager announced in May that Vital wouldn’t be party to buying Healthscope properties...
COMMENT: ANZ still doesn't get it
By Pattrick Smellie | Thu, 22 Aug 2019
By Pattrick SmellieAug. 22 (BusinessDesk) - In business, as in life, it sometimes pays to ask whether you want to be right, or be happy.The ANZ Bank appears to have decided it wants to be right.Hence...
ANALYSIS: Another new head for Xero's American dream
By Jenny Ruth | Thu, 22 Aug 2019
By Jenny Ruth Aug. 22 (BusinessDesk) - Xero has a fraught history of trying to suss out success in North America with what has sometimes had all the hallmarks of an executive revolving door. The...
ANALYSIS: Questions over Abano's Australian operations as sales slump continues
By Jenny Ruth | Tue, 30 Jul 2019
By Jenny Ruth July 31 (BusinessDesk) - Abano Healthcare continues to do it tough in Australia where, even though it’s the second-largest corporate player, it has less than 2 percent of the market....
Should Fletcher Building persist with Australia?
By Jenny Ruth | Tue, 23 Jul 2019
By Jenny Ruth July 24 (BusinessDesk) - Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it, goes the famous saying attributed to Winston Churchill and philosopher George Santayana. F...
COMMENT: RBNZ's key political omission in its bank capital proposals
By Jenny Ruth | Wed, 17 Jul 2019
By Jenny Ruth July 18 (BusinessDesk) - Motherhood and apple pie top most people’s lists of things that are unquestionably good. We don’t normally question the cost – many mothers would say, far...