Market news and opinion updated throughout the week.

Who could be next on the buy list for private equity?

Fund managers' tussle over talent.

The life insurance industry is struggling to attract new buyers.

Fletcher Building shares have fallen so low it could be a bargain price for a buyer.

An equity research firm is to use augmented reality to appeal to more millennials.

Our take on the markets this week....

US tax changes are not expected to benefit the tech sector.

Xero is set to leave the NZX in favour of an ASX listing.

Statistics New Zealand's latest Food Price Index showed the price of this country's favourite meat had fallen 11 per cent over the 12 months to September to a nine-year low.

Chicago Federal Reserve president Charles Evans jetted into Auckland this week and delivered a message which, when boiled down to

You would hope the private equity industry has learned a thing or two from the collapse of Dick Smith.

NZ King Salmon could have done without an aquatic visitor during a recent tour of its Marlborough Sounds sea farms by institutional investors.

Listed companies usually go to great lengths to avoid confrontational annual shareholder meetings.

Software developer's stock has done well since falling off cliff.

Sportspeople love pulling out the "it's been a journey" cliche when scrambling to say something profound during post-match interviews.

New Zealand's initial public offering pipeline is showing some green shoots after a quiet 18 months.

COMMENT: Rakon shareholders may have been a little perplexed by the remuneration section of the technology firm's annual report, released last week.

COMMENBT: Fu Wah International, which already has plans to build two hotels in Auckland, wants to take a stake in a Kiwi retirement village operator.

There's no doubting that the NZX and the wider investment community would like to see more initial public offers and sharemarket listings.

One thing is for sure - the technology that underpins Bitcoin has got stock exchanges, clearing houses, banks and central banks talking.

COMMENT: The New Zealand sharemarket has a global reputation as a lucrative source of dividends.

COMMENT: Tegel's sharemarket listing could be the most high-profile float the NZX will see this year. But the company is taking a low-key approach to its big day.

Stock Takes; Stocks with exposure to China's booming e-commerce trade have settled down after copping heavy selling.

Could newly listed health supplements maker Oceania Natural be benefiting from the Blackmores effect?

Last month's sharemarket turmoil hasn't prompted the private equity owners of Tegel Foods to chicken out of plans to take the poultry business public.

Australasian infant formula stocks have proved a pretty good bet lately.

Back in August, it would have been difficult to imagine the S&P/NZX 50 notching up yet another year of double-digit returns.