Hugh Hendry, one of Britain’s highest profile hedge fund managers, has told New Zealand institutional investors his 2013 conversion from a bearish to bullish outlook is starting to pay off. Speaking to an Auckland audience via Skype from the UK this week, Hendry said his Eclectica hedge fund, which he founded in 2005, was now up 14 to 15 percent this …
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Australia’s Quattro in talks to buy Precinct and Goodman properties
Quattro Asset Management, an Australian fund manager, is in negotiations to buy two Auckland industrial assets from Goodman Property Trust and two office towers in Wellington and Auckland from Precinct Properties New Zealand The Sydney-based investor is in talks with Goodman to buy its Enterprise Park at Wiri and SuperCheap Auto, part of the Savill Link Estate in Otahuhu, Goodman (NZ), the manager of the Auckland-based property …
Read More »Supreme Court tosses out Iwi attempt to overturn Shanghai Pengxin’s bid for Crafar Farms
The Supreme Court has rejected a bid by two North Island iwis to overturn Shanghai Pengxin’s successful bid for the Crafar farms. The court’s decision to reject the iwi’s appeal against the recent Court of Appeal’s judgment upholding Shanghai Pengxin as having the requisite business acumen and experience to run the dairy farm business is good news for all other …
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