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NZ land: Are the politicians listening?
In the latest Herald series on election policies, we look at whether parties are paying attention to voter's worries about land sales to overseas buyers.
In the latest Herald series on election policies, we look at whether parties are paying attention to voter's worries about land sales to overseas buyers.
Air New Zealand is set to announce a sharp increase in profit this week which the airline will welcome as a shift in focus from the negative publicity that has hit it this year.
The GRC SinoGreen Fund III is overseen by a group of venture capitalists including Kiwi Tony Bishop and his team at the Auckland branch of GRC Managers.
New Zealand could be on the cusp of a big lift in mergers and acquisitions activity, driven in part by increasing Asian interest in local companies.
The South China Morning Post's editors have a sense of humour: "New Zealand MP Winston Peters accused of racism over Wong joke" was the headline.
A bowling club in the heart of the upmarket Auckland suburb of Remuera has been sold for $8.1 million to an investment company which wants to build a retirement village.
The sharemarket performance of recent IPOs, in New Zealand and overseas, has been extremely disappointing.
A tiny rural Waikato town wants to establish itself as the "North Island's premier food technology hub".
The revelation that a Chinese company plans to buy the Lochinver Station in the central North Island is manna to Winston Peters.
Analysts have mixed views on the outlook for the upcoming earnings season as some of NZ's biggest and most widely held firms prepare to report their annual results.
The country's largest broker has hired a new investment team in a bid to build up its $250 million funds management business.
An American investor with US$500 million ($574 million) has been in New Zealand scouting for retirement village assets and meeting one influential banker.
The man suing Huka Lodge's owner for half the assets has convinced the High Court a caveat claiming he has an interest in the property should stay in place.
The NZX's new Index Futures - which launch today - could stabilise the market and reduce volatility to the benefit of all investors, including KiwiSaver users.
It's a long way from netball hoops to jumping through the hoops of doing business in China but farmer Mike Wilkins is aiming as carefully as his former Silver Fern wife.
Junk bonds are back, though in truth they never went away and we've lost track of what these bonds actually were and are: Instruments that allow riskier ventures to be funded.
Hellaby Holdings expects to add $20m to annual revenue after buying New Zealand Trucks South Island and Dasko Marketing NZ.
Stock exchange operator NZX says it will ramp up its efforts to help investors understand how it regulates the market this year.
Chinese companies are stepping up New Zealand investment after two big approvals were granted.
Business confidence went from strength to only slightly less strength in the ANZ's latest monthly survey.
The technology company started by Kim Dotcom is heading for the New Zealand sharemarket with a valuation of $210 million.
More foreign buyers are likely to make bids for New Zealand assets this year with China at the forefront, according to a report by Chapman Tripp.
The former New Zealand boss of JPMorgan Chase is locked in "full-blown adversarial litigation" with the bank where he is seeking $170,000 in damages.
The FMA has dropped civil proceedings against four Lombard directors as the failed finance company's receivers have reached a $10 million settlement with the men, their insurers and an unnamed "third party".
Richard Conway says $200 was all it took to establish his start-up, Pure SEO, in 2009.
The debts of a company are not the debts of the person who owns it, says Professor Susan Watson, deputy dean of the faculty of law at Auckland University.
Sweeping changes to securities law have undermined the custodial sentences handed out to former directors of Lombard, the Supreme Court has heard.
Having a culture where star talent was allowed to make investment decisions without being checked was a big driver of the global financial crisis.