Fund manager AMP Capital is unfazed by last week's volatility on international financial markets.

As Xero's CTO, Craig Walker is constantly working in the future, translating boss Rod Drury's vision for the business into hard technical reality.

Liam Dann writes: Get ready for an influx of bargain-hunting foreign investors, because as the dollar drops, NZ assets are effectively going on special.

In a discussion about what constitutes good reporting practice it is easy to buy into reporting myths and it is important to dispel these.

New Zealand financial markets are expected to firm when they open today after the National Party secured the first ever outright win.

Investors in listed power companies appear to be betting the National Party will retain the government benches at Saturday's general election.

A team of veteran investors is set to scrutinise the expansion plans of six high-growth businesses in a million-dollar funding competition.

Bankrupt Mark Bryers is using the name Mark Ryan to run a business in Australia with many hallmarks of his failed Blue Chip property investment group.

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.

The takeover bids launched for two NZX-listed firms yesterday could signal a new phase of heightened acquisition activity on the local sharemarket.

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.

Most foreign investors who come to New Zealand bring capital and "know how" and make a great contribution to our young country, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

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.