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.
Services
Jenny Ruth: ANALYSIS: Grand Vista for cinema software expansion
By Jenny Ruth June 24 (BusinessDesk) - Vista Group has mightily rewarded investors since its November 2014 float, the share price having risen more than fivefold. And unlike so many technology companies, Vista was already profitable before it listed and has grown revenue at...
Services
Jenny Ruth: ANALYSIS: Vital Healthcare investors face dilemma over management fees
By Jenny Ruth June 13 (BusinessDesk) - Vital Healthcare Property Trust’s investors would be well-advised to keep in mind that, as the old adage goes, turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, when they come to vote on the proposed changes to the manager’s fee structure. The manager...
Finance
Jenny Ruth: ANALYSIS AND CORRECTION: A tale of ORCs and an under-resourced Reserve Bank
By Jenny Ruth June 10 (BusinessDesk) - Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr says the prudential part of his organisation, the part that oversees the banking system, is under-resourced. “We need more resource. We’ve said that very often. That was, in part, one of the outcomes of...
Markets
Paul McBeth: COMMENT: Do regulators need yet another hurry up on disclosure rules?
By Jenny Ruth May 15 (BusinessDesk) - Disclosure lies at the heart of New Zealand’s corporate regulatory systems but the regulators themselves have greatly undermined that principle more than once. The beauty of enforced disclosure is that it’s nice and cheap, and a strong...
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