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Market confidence lifts private equity returns
Surging investor confidence and reasonable share prices are letting private equity investors make some decent returns.

Infratil reports sizeable half year loss
Infrastructure investor Infratil reported a half year loss of $31.4 million.

Choc giant rejects $22b takeover
Cadbury has rejected a hostile £9.7 billion ($22 billion) takeover bid from the US food giant Kraft.

Infratil takes $54m hit on airport
Infratil has lost about $54 million on its investment in Auckland International Airport.

Super Fund moves for oil giant
the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and Infratil have made a joint bid for the downstream assets of Shell Oil Ltd.

Time called on Lion Nathan stock listing
Tomorrow marks the end of the line for one of New Zealand's oldest and once most powerful companies.

Line 7 has new owner
Australian-owned textile manufacturing firm Charles Parsons is the new owner of Kiwi outdoor-wear brand Line 7.

Reject offer, say Horizon Energy directors
Horizon Energy directors are recommending shareholders reject Marlborough Lines' partial takeover offer.