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...
ANALYSIS: Grand Vista for cinema software expansion
By Jenny Ruth | Sun, 23 Jun 2019
By Jenny Ruth June 24 (BusinessDesk) - Vista Group has mightily rewarded investors since its November 2014 float, the share price having risen more than fivefold. And unlike so many technology c...
ANALYSIS: Vital Healthcare investors face dilemma over management fees
By Jenny Ruth | Wed, 12 Jun 2019
By Jenny Ruth June 13 (BusinessDesk) - Vital Healthcare Property Trust’s investors would be well-advised to keep in mind that, as the old adage goes, turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, when they com...