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.
Your regulator expects: fund fee facts from the FMA
Finance

David Chaplin: Your regulator expects: fund fee facts from the FMA

The new inflated compliance regime will come at a cost – but to who?

David Chaplin 14 Apr 2021
'That' letter from the govt to Air NZ: what's really in it?
Markets

Pattrick Smellie: 'That' letter from the govt to Air NZ: what's really in it?

There is a lot of nuance packed into Grant Robertson's new 'letter of expectations' to Air NZ, none of it unreasonable for the airline's majority shareholder and its ultimate guarantor.

Pattrick Smellie 14 Apr 2021
A perilous pre-vaccine environment
Coronavirus

Pattrick Smellie: A perilous pre-vaccine environment

The government faces a testing political vacuum between now and the July mass rollout of covid vaccinations.

Pattrick Smellie 12 Apr 2021
AFT's disclosure lacks candour despite chair's pedigree
Markets

Jenny Ruth: AFT's disclosure lacks candour despite chair's pedigree

AFT's chair David Flacks chairs NZX's regulatory governance committee and used to chair NZX's disciplinary tribunal, making AFT's late profit downgrade all the more surprising.

Jenny Ruth 12 Apr 2021