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.
Primary Sector
Pattrick Smellie: Six things to help fix the building timber shortage
NZ's construction timber sector is remarkably protected from offshore competition while building regulations raise prices and kill new ideas.
Technology
Peter Griffin: Will 'hyperscalers' steal Spark's spark?
The growth of cloud services is a double-edged sword for Spark.
Finance
David Chaplin: Writer's block? Get a robot to write instead
Robots are moving from giving financial advice to writing financial analysis. How soon before they can read their own reports for you?
Property
Jenny Ruth: NZ RegCo and Precinct fail the transparency test
The need for speed in cutting shareholder approval out of the equation is arguable, but Precinct's failure to provide its shareholders with key information isn't, and neither is NZ RegCo's lack of will to do anything about it.
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