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Vital Healthcare investors to vote on new fee structure
Finance

Vital Healthcare investors to vote on new fee structure

Vital Healthcare Property Trust's investors will be asked to vote on a new management fee structure that will reduce both the management and incentive fees and will make explicit a number of others. The notice of meeting for the annual meeting on Oct. 31 lays out the impact of...

Jenny Ruth 02 Oct 2019
S&P puts NZ Post on negative credit watch
Finance

S&P puts NZ Post on negative credit watch

International ratings agency Standard & Poor's have put New Zealand Post on negative credit watch because of the structural decline in mail volumes and the state-owned enterprise's rising capital spending. S&P currently rates the postal service "A+" for long-term debt and "A-1...

Jenny Ruth 01 Oct 2019
Deepening business gloom likely to push annual GDP below 1%
Retail

Deepening business gloom likely to push annual GDP below 1%

By Jenny Ruth Oct. 1 (BusinessDesk) - Businesses continued to sink deeper into gloom during the September quarter and that will likely shave annual GDP growth to below 1 percent, according to the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research's latest quarterly survey of business...

Jenny Ruth 30 Sep 2019
NZ Post's parcels business turns a small annual profit as mail keeps group in the red
Retail

NZ Post's parcels business turns a small annual profit as mail keeps group in the red

By Paul McBeth Sept. 27 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand Post's increasingly important parcels business turned a small annual profit, but that wasn't enough to avoid red ink with its mail service still in decline.  The state-owned enterprise (SOE) reported a loss of $121 millio...

Paul McBeth 26 Sep 2019