Financial Markets Authority chairman Simon Allen’s role in negotiating the government’s convention centre for pokies deal with NZX-listed SkyCity Entertainment Group was recorded as a potential conflict of interest, the regulator says. Allen, a former investment banker who has chaired the market watchdog since May 2011, took a key role in talks with the casino and hotel group, according to …

Goodman Property Trust, the largest property investor by market value on the NZX, expects to increase payments to unitholders by as much as 2.3 percent in 2014, and signalled further investments are likely. Pretax distributable earnings for 2014, a measure favoured by property investors as it strips out unrealised movements in property values, are expected to be between 8.2 cents …

Argosy Property, which recently bought two Wellington commercial properties, has raised $86.9 million in a rights issue and bookbuild to repay bank debt taken on for its recent acquisitions. The Auckland-based company sold 87.2 million shares at 89 cents apiece, or $77.6 million, to shareholders who exercised their rights in a 1-for-7 pro-rata renounceable offer, it said in a statement. …