Kiwis are looking for more flexible options to learn and these need to be increasingly on offer, particularly when it comes to reskilling people for digital roles and upskilling the existing workforce to embrace new technologies.
Two of the larger players in the Australasian funds' management scene have been experiencing shrinkage.
In contrast to its jumping on the faddish climate change bandwagon, the Reserve Bank's work on a potential digital currency is well argued and methodical, according to the NZ Initiative's Matt Burgess.
Banks are profitable when they focus lending on a buoyant sector, until they get over-exposed and the sector implodes. Then what happens to deposit holders?