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New Zealand shares fell on the last trading day of the year, though not enough to prevent 2012 being the best for the NZX 50 Index since 2004, with the strongest gains coming from growth stocks and companies making comebacks. The NZX 50 fell 14.389 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4066.513 and has advanced almost 25 percent in 2012, just …

NZX boss Tim Bennett featured in the final NZX stock filing for 2012, an announcement that he has acquired 1.58 million shares in the bourse operator from his long-term incentive scheme. The stock exchange’s chief executive acquired the $1.87 million stake, which amounts to 0.6 percent of the company’s shares on issue, as part of his incentive scheme, according to …