OPINION: All the questions the convention centre fire asks
By Pattrick Smellie | Thu, 24 Oct 2019
As the flames die and the smoke clears on the roof of the unfinished New Zealand International Convention Centre roof, questions from this sorry episode spin out in many directions.There are the simpl...
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...