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The 2020 Infrastructure report looked into the ways New Zealand and its businesses could build back better in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.  

The 2020 Sustainable Finance report looked at the road ahead for New Zealand following the Covid-19 pandemic.    

We would like to congratulate Nanaia Mahuta on her promotion to the role of Foreign Minister – an important historic move. We are delighted both to see some stability in the local government portfolio holder and to see it held by someone senior in the cabinet rankings. For once we do not have a new Minister who has to learn …

Melissa Conley Tyler, University of Melbourne China has certainly got Australia’s attention with a highly inflammatory tweet from a government spokesperson. It has provoked the desired reaction — a storm of outrage. This is the latest in an ever-growing list of problems between Australia and China. In recent days, China imposed new tariffs on wine, while Australia threatened legal action …

Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato With tension escalating between China and members of the Five Eyes security alliance, most recently over a Chinese tweet that used a doctored image to attack Australia, New Zealand is arguably in a prime position to broker a kind of truce. Someone needs to take the initiative. Right now, things are deteriorating, as the trade …

The New Zealand Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom 2020 Election Year survey, taken in association with BusinessNZ, provided an in-depth assessment of CEO opinion at what was the most concerning time in the survey’s long history due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2020 Mood of the Boardroom CEOs Survey attracted participation from 165 respondents. This survey saw opinions some 140 …

The 2020 CFO Summit Connect, chaired by Fran O’Sullivan, provided the latest information about political and economic trends, governance, risk and capital frameworks, and culture and forward-thinking concepts from global and local experts. In the video below Dr Alan Bollard discusses the New Zealand Economy under COVID-19. With global turbulence rising for trade policy and trade rules, and protectionism back …

New Zealand’s relationship with China will continue to be one of the most important and far-reaching while Covid-19 accelerates the relative decline of United States as the world’s economic engine, said a leading bank executive. Antonia Watson, chief executive of ANZ Bank New Zealand, told delegates at the 2020 China Business Summit in Auckland that “we are thankful China’s economy …

The sixth annual China Business Summit 2020, organised by NZ INC. and Auckland Business Chamber, attracted record attendance and plenty of high spirits in the Cordis Hotel’s ballroom. Maybe, it was because the summit was the first major conference since the Covid-19 lockdown and the business leaders were excited to get out and network. But more importantly the 320 business …

The China-New Zealand relationship, both trade and cultural, is in good shape irrespective of different views on some issues. That was the message from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Minister of Trade and Export Growth David Parker and Chinese Ambassador Wu Xi to more than 300 delegates attending the 2020 China Business Summit, organised by NZ INC. and Auckland Business Chamber. …