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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.
Economy
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Pattrick Smellie: OPINION: FPAs and 'swallowing vomit' - the lot of the CTU
Council of Trade Unions president Richard Wagstaff was kept waiting by the Workplace Relations Minister, Iain Lees-Galloway, at the CTU's biennial conference in Wellington on Wednesday. It was either prophetic or to be expected. Wagstaff had to improvise while he waited for the m...
Policy
Jenny Ruth: ANALYSIS: Govt will have to pay up for high-rise and other construction
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 23 (BusinessDesk) - If New Zealand's construction industry is to thrive, the bottom line is that clients, particularly government ones, are going to have to pay more for buildings. Steve Killeen, chief executive of Downer's New Zealand operations, spelle...
Markets
Jenny Ruth: ANALYSIS: Should penalties for continuous disclosure breaches be relaxed?
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 19 (BusinessDesk) - Is the liability companies and directors face for breaches of NZX's continuous disclosure rules preventing people from becoming directors? Is the continuous disclosure regime dissuading a significant number of companies from listing o...
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...
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