The Life

The Life is a BusinessDesk section for people with an appetite for living well, who like to celebrate the good things in life – whether that’s investing in your health and wellness or a weekend at a lodge. 

Hot in the city - how to do a luxury Rotorua weekend
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Hot in the city - how to do a luxury Rotorua weekend

Comparisons between Rotorua and Queenstown are inevitable. But while Queenstown is considered an international adventure playground, Rotorua has had more of a ‘joe public’ tourist reputation, catering as much for locals as for jet-setters.But the Rotorua of today, a scant two and...

Brent Melville 11 Dec 2020
Bottoms up - cheers to the best Champagne buys for Christmas
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Bottoms up - cheers to the best Champagne buys for Christmas

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, 'tis the season to drink Bolly.

Bob Campbell MW 11 Dec 2020
Review: Naumi Studio Hotel, Wellington - a place for the bold and the beautiful
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Review: Naumi Studio Hotel, Wellington - a place for the bold and the beautiful

We check into the Naumi Studio Hotel, an extravagant addition to the Wellington scene.

Dan Brunskill 11 Dec 2020
My Net Worth - Rob Everett, CEO, Financial Markets Authority
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My Net Worth - Rob Everett, CEO, Financial Markets Authority

Welcome to My Net Worth, our regular column on the lives and motivations of our country’s top business, legal and political people, in their own words. Rob Everett has been chief executive of the FMA since February 2014. Originally from the United Kingdom, he was previously a dir...

11 Dec 2020