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.
Finance
Jenny Ruth: ANALYSIS: Wealth management now wags the stock-broking dog
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 16 (BusinessDesk) - Could the lack of new listings on NZX be as simple as New Zealand not having enough traditional stock-broking and merchant banking firms? The capital markets review's report mentions the issue: "Each of the five primary retail NZX fir...
Retail
Jenny Ruth: COMMENT: Retail shareholder perspective missing in action in capital markets review
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 11 (BusinessDesk) - One glaring omission in the capital markets review committee's report this week is the point of view of retail shareholders which is largely missing in action. Perhaps that was inevitable, given the committee’s make-up: chair Martin S...
Services
Jenny Ruth: ANALYSIS: Vital investors foot the bill for ditching a dud idea
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 2 (BusinessDesk) - Investors were mightily relieved when Vital Healthcare Property Trust’s manager announced in May that Vital wouldn’t be party to buying Healthscope properties for A$1.25 billion. Trading in Vital speaks volumes: the unit price jumped f...
Finance
Free
Pattrick Smellie: COMMENT: ANZ still doesn't get it
By Pattrick SmellieAug. 22 (BusinessDesk) - In business, as in life, it sometimes pays to ask whether you want to be right, or be happy.The ANZ Bank appears to have decided it wants to be right.Hence its staggering insistence today that it disagrees with the Financial Markets Aut...
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