Foreign investment is not a black and white issue. Too often the populist reaction to the issue is knee-jerk and xenophobic.

Contact Energy is facing growing pressure from institutional investors over its governance structure.

New Zealand-based credit surety and financial risk insurer CBL Insurance has bought Australian specialty insurer Assetinsure Holdings for $46 million.

The directors of OPI Pacific Finance, which collapsed owing $247m, have pleaded guilty to making untrue statements.

BRI Ferrier was last week appointed liquidators of Sydney-based Talos Accounting Group, where Mr Bryers worked under the name Mark Ryan.

Contact Energy chief executive Dennis Barnes says the firm now has the chance to steer its own course.

Canadians, not Chinese, take top spot as the biggest investors in New Zealand over the past two years, according to analysis released by KPMG today.

New Zealand shares edged lower yesterday as investors waited for reporting season to get under way. Auckland International Airport and Nuplex Industries fell.

Nathan Tinkler was Australia's youngest billionaire - now he faces bankruptcy as his coal empire collapses.

The parked civil action against convicted directors of Capital+Merchant Finance has been dropped.

Andrew Hrothgar Robinson has been sentenced to six years in jail this morning for stealing more than $3 million.

New Zealand shares fell over uncertainty surrounding the future of the Tiwai Point smelter.

It's impossible to know where the rout of Chinese stocks will end but there's little doubt its effects will wash over Australia one way or another, says Christopher Niesche.

The NZ-founded carbon recycling company is shifting into commercialisation from its previous development phase.

The Bunnings chain of hardware stores have been a great success story, but the chain is at risk of becoming a victim of its own success, writes Christopher Niesche.

Hamish Fletcher says he FMA, after some law changes, now has the tools that allow it to proactively stamp out misleading conduct in the market.

Financial Markets Authority chief executive Rob Everett says the settlement with Milford Asset Management over market manipulation issues has been an uncomfortable wake-up call.

Surviving the global financial crisis opened up buying opportunities for Pie Funds founder Mike Taylor.

Pacific Investment Management Co Chief Executive Officer Douglas Hodge says investors have had three years to prepare.

Milford Asset Management executive director Brian Gaynor has spoken out on the market manipulation probe into the company he co-founded in 2003, describing it as a "wake up call".

The deal marks Buffett's first investment in an Australian company although Berkshire's reinsurance relationship with IAG, the biggest insurer in Australia and NZ.

New Zealand shares fell yesterday, as Contact Energy and Mighty River Power were sold by investors looking to crystallise recent gains.

Christopher Niesche writes: Nine chief executive David Gyngell said the profit downturn was a cyclical issue, "bump, not a hill". But is it?

New Zealand shares rose yesterday as investors shrugged off the prospect of higher global interest rates, and bought property stocks.

China's Dalian Zeus Entertainment offered US$2.35 million ($3.3 million) in an online charity auction to win a lunch meeting with investor Warren Buffett.

US hedge fund Oaktree Capital has completed its takeover of MediaWorks Investments, confirming rumours it had taken 100 per cent ownership of the media company.

Douglas "Doug" McKay has had leadership roles in some of New Zealand's largest companies. He was appointed to Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Hellabys has sold its packaging division to Coveris, one of the world's largest plastic packaging companies.

A whip-around of holders of South Canterbury Finance preference shares has raised more than $150,000.

A SCF investor who is helping fund a legal probe says he bought preference shares on the back of statements the company made about its prospects only months before it collapsed.