Capital Markets

2024 – Agribusiness & Trade

Agribusiness & Trade: Getting focused Inside: Doubling NZ’s exports Fonterra’s strategic shift A Trump presidency & trade Rising to the climate challenge Luxon turns NZ F&B salesman Enjoy the report.

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2024 – Capital Markets & Investment

Capital Markets & Investment: The Growth Equation The Capital Markets & Investment report provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the sector. It explores China Premier Li Qiang’s visit to New Zealand, where he emphasised the potential boost to business confidence and bilateral trade relations as well as China’s pro-business stance, which promises to enhance cooperation in innovative business, …

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2023 – Capital Markets: Navigating challenging times

Inside Liam Dann: Is the era of low interest rates over? Future-proofing New Zealand – what investors want Fran O’Sullivan: China at a turning point Preparing for tougher times – don’t get caught short Message to the next Finance Minister: What the NZX wants from the election

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2022 – Capital Markets: Surviving the bears

Negative sentiment pervades global markets – from shares and bonds through to the “crypto crash” which has seen Bitcoin tumble through the floor, wobbly housing markets – even gold and silver are showing signs of tarnish. Investors have been here before. But this storm has a novel twist. Central banks are now raising interest rates to stamp out inflationary pressures, …

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2021 – Capital Markets: Out of the tailspin

Covid-19 sent capital markets into a tailspin worldwide. But it also provoked a new wave of innovation in New Zealand. The pandemic provided an unexpected boost to the New Zealand stock exchange —the NZX—as Kiwi companies tapped the market for new equity to keep balance sheets in shape at a time when revenues were severely impacted in some sectors. The …

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2019 – Capital Markets: The BIG Issues

The 2019 Capital Markets report looked into the big issues in New Zealand at the time: what’s in store, impact investing, the performance of the NZX, what millennials really want, as well as a roundup of fintech.

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2017 – Capital Markets

Should we be aggressively chasing foreign investment dollars? That was the big questions in the 2017 Capital Markets report, whilst also considering the sharemarket’s continued healthy state, whether the pools of capital were going in the right place, the state of New Zealand’s private equity industry and international investment, as well as the big deals in the pipeline that were …

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2016 – Capital Markets

In 2016, the market was in good shape after years of hard work by those running, regulating and operating in it. The 2016 Capital Markets report provided insight into how the benefits of a more robust regulatory regime had become clearer, how angel investment was playing an important role in growing the economy, how new contracts had become a way …

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