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1 week ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Calida Stuart-Menteath |Hamish Mcnicol
Tariff turnarounds miring Kiwi companies in uncertainty ANALYSIS: Many listed companies reporting annual results in the last few weeks highlighted how trade turmoil was affecting them. Trump's tariffs have provoked uncertainty in global marekts. It’s been a busy end to the results season, with the last couple of days particularly flat out with NZX-listed companies with March year-ends releasing their earnings.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Calida Stuart-Menteath |Hamish Mcnicol
A Budget for Business ANALYSIS: A focus on spurring productivity is a positive in this year’s Budget, but the trade-offs will hit many hard. Finance Minister Nicola Willis. ‘The Finance Minister giveth and the Finance Minister taketh away’ is an apt idiom for Budget 2025, but it’s likely only to be those in business who would carry Job’s Bible proclamation on to say ‘blessed be the name of Nicola Willis’. Certainly, it is a budget for business. The Want to read more? It's easy.
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3 weeks ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Calida Stuart-Menteath |Hamish Mcnicol
ANALYSIS: Our cities are breaking, yet voters aren’t as engaged as they need to be. With voter turnout in local body elections hovering in the low-40%, you’d think the public doesn’t care much about the towns and cities in which they live – or perhaps they think their vote won’t change the way things are. But, with what we’re all experiencing – with poor public Want to read more? It's easy.
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1 month ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Hamish Mcnicol |Calida Stuart-Menteath
Church and state: NZ’s governance woes not going away ANALYSIS: The small pool of New Zealand directors mean a higher risk of group-think and consensus. Last week, the board of wealth management firm FirstCape met. The firm is chaired by former NZ Super boss Matt Whineray. Its other directors include Bill Trotter, the former executive chairman of Jarden, and Angela Mentis, the former NAB executive and BNZ CEO. FirstCape chief executive Malcolm Want to read more? It's easy.
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1 month ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Hamish Mcnicol |Calida Stuart-Menteath
NBR is unashamedly focused on the top end of town, but we also have a proud history of covering entrepreneurs, startups, and small and medium-sized businesses. Just this week, we profiled a Christchurch couple who are still in their twenties and own several businesses in the hospitality and Want to read more? It's easy.
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1 month ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Calida Stuart-Menteath |Hamish Mcnicol
NZ directors keeping calm and carrying on amid tariff confusion ANALYSIS: Disruption is the new normal but many experienced directors have already built that into their plans. US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the subsequent fallout is changing daily, proving a major headache for business around the world.
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1 month ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Hamish Mcnicol |Calida Stuart-Menteath
Accounting and independent directors – it’s all about optics ANALYSIS: As two New Zealand firms introduce independent voices to their boards, the rest must consider doing the same. It’s generally accepted that appointing at least one independent director to a board is good corporate governance. For listed companies, it’s a requirement. For private companies, it’s recommended. For partnerships, like accounting firms, it’s increasingly a point of debate. That’s Want to read more?
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2 months ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Calida Stuart-Menteath |Hamish Mcnicol
Trump causes global chaos, and loves it ANALYSIS: Markets slump, recession fears, and the end of the free trade era. Tariffs have the markets in a spin. It’s not even been 36 hours since US President Donald Trump gave his charged ‘Liberation Day’ speech, a rambling hour of patronising puffery, and the world is in a spin. Trump will be loving it. One hour on tariffs and he has managed to dominate the headlines of every news outlet in the world. Want to read more? It's easy.
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2 months ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Calida Stuart-Menteath |Hamish Mcnicol
Nobody trusts anybody any more ANALYSIS: A sense of grievance and distrust is taking hold in New Zealand. What can business do? It is clear the institutional failures of the past 25 years have produced grievances in society around the world, and those with a higher sense of grievance believe that business, government, non-governmental organisations, and media are not doing enough to address deep-seated societal Want to read more? It's easy.
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2 months ago | 
nbr.co.nz | Hamish Mcnicol |Calida Stuart-Menteath
We still don’t know what outcomes-focused regulation is ANALYSIS: But the Financial Markets Authority is very clear about what it’s not: new rules. At about 3pm yesterday, everyone regulated by the Financial Markets Authority breathed a sigh of relief. That’s because their inboxes would have pinged with the arrival of the long-awaited and much-delayed explanation of what the regulator means by “outcomes-focused regulation”. ICYMI, in Want to read more? It's easy.
