ANALYSIS: Capitalist economies tend to thrive when businesses can safely assume that governments will treat them fairly and consistently and that changes in regulations and taxes will be driven by broad policy objectives rather than erratic favouritism.
ANALYSIS: Investors should gradually gain confidence in most assets, as pessimism in outlook for economy gives way to understanding that highly restrictive monetary policy has done its job.
ANALYSIS: What Pacific Edge and SkyCity teach us about managing regulatory risk.
ANALYSIS: If the ‘cycle’ is indeed starting to turn for the better, institutional and retail investors alike will be inundated with new investment opportunities.
ANALYSIS: Why you don’t always get what you pay for in funds management and, within the equity market, there is no incremental reward for choosing higher risk.
ANALYSIS: A closer look into ongoing, significant underperformance of Australian smaller market capitalisation companies.
ANALYSIS: Key shifts needed to counter strong bearish sentiment.
ANALYSIS: The fact NZ banks aren’t taking on more risk than those in other countries, but generate far higher returns, is intriguing.
ANALYSIS: Stopping the bleed of NZX takeovers, shifts and delistings.
ANALYSIS: You might like to guess whether or not ChatGPT wrote this article.