NZX lifted annual profit 82 per cent in 2015 as the one-off gain from the sale of its Link Market Services division bolstered flat earnings.

The prime minister wooed investors at a glitzy event, but executives said more reforms are needed.

Hellaby Holdings, the diversified investment company, posted a 65 per cent drop in first-half profit with revenue from three of its four segments falling.

Business and industry group leaders have lent their support to the TPP free trade agreement in an open letter to Prime Minister John Key.

Veritas Investments shares plunged 42 per cent after the food and beverage investor downgraded its outlook for earnings and nixed a first-half dividend.

But China's firms can't buy their way to success.

Former investors in Allan Hubbard's Aorangi Securities and Hubbard Management Funds will have to chase the deceased businessman's estate if they want to pursue as much as five years of unpaid interest.

It won't be business as usual for Iranian oil exporters. Much has happened since sanctions were tightened.

Greenheart Group has signed a conditional deal to buy Northland Forest Managers (1995) for $1.5 million.

You'd think writing about money was simply repeating the same concepts over and over again, but every year I come across new ideas, concepts and products.

Investors are falling out of love with New Zealand's first peer-to-peer (P2P) lender.

One of the architects of the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund says pension plans face increasingly complex decisions over responsible investment, particularly in energy.

Following the Rugby World Cup win, business editor Liam Dann wrote a great piece discussing what the corporate world could learn from the All Blacks.

The long-running Pyne Gould Corporation saga has taken a few more bizarre twists and turns in the past three weeks.

An "alarming" number of landlords remain largely ignorant of new Reserve Bank LVR rules which demand Auckland investors have 30 per cent deposits.

Angel investment levels fell 20 per cent in the first half of the year as a less rosy economic outlook made investors cautious about funding early-stage NZ firms.

The TPP could halve the number of major foreign investments in New Zealand which need to pass "good character" and business experience tests.

Tainui Group Holdings is selling a half-share of the country's largest single retail and entertainment destination, The Base.

Inland Revenue cites international tax agreement as it refuses to hand over documents, judge is not persuaded that's a good reason to enforce secrecy.

Maling's proposal to acquire 50% of Silver Fern Farms reaffirms that Chinese investors are interested in New Zealand's rural and food-based assets.

A business connection made over lunch has dished up an opportunity for Southland beef and lamb in the Chinese city of Xi'an.

Allegro Funds is optimistic its latest New Zealand investment, Carpet Court, is a candidate for potential listing.

Peer-to-peer lender Harmoney is set to make a bigger push to get mum-and-dad investors on board as it faces competition from two new entrants.

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.