Trade Me Group’s earnings growth may to slow to about 8 percent in the coming year as New Zealand’s largest online auction site reinvests in its business, from a 12 percent pace last year, before picking up again in 2015 as its investments pay off. Trade Me chief executive Jon Macdonald said he is comfortable with analyst estimates in a …

Fundamental changes to the Resource Management Act will produce no more certainty than the current law and will introduce new conflicts that the courts will have to untangle, says top law firm DLA Phillips Fox. In an opinion prepared for the Environmental Defence Society, the firm warns that merging Sections 6 and 7 of the RMA, which deal with the …

Andrew Robinson, who was struck off as an authorised financial adviser in December, and Mark Turnock have been charged following an investigation into Strategic Planning Group and SPG Investment Company No. 1. Robinson, a former director of Strategic Planning and current director of SPG Investment, appeared in the Auckland District Court today to face five charges laid by the Serious …