Opinion

Opinion and analysis from Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Cameron Bagrie and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
Tech: RIP good times
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Peter Griffin: Tech: RIP good times

The difficult times ahead will serve to forge tech companies and entrepreneurs with a longer-term outlook and more sound fundamentals. 

Peter Griffin 23 Jun 2022
Vote passive: the future of corporate democracy
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David Chaplin: Vote passive: the future of corporate democracy

If the proxy-voting record of the NZ Superannuation Fund is any guide – and it is – retail passive investors might find the ‘democratisation’ of corporate governance more tiresome than liberating.

David Chaplin 22 Jun 2022
Is raising rates the wrong answer to inflation?
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Jenny Ruth: Is raising rates the wrong answer to inflation?

Raising interest rates does nothing to the underlying causes of inflation from supply-chain disruption to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Jenny Ruth 21 Jun 2022
Why not take the knife to Fonterra’s management instead?
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Jenny Ruth: Why not take the knife to Fonterra’s management instead?

From an outsider’s perspective, it seems all Fonterra’s management has to do is dangle the spectre of farmers losing control of the cooperative to get the farmers to agree to any proposal.

Jenny Ruth 20 Jun 2022