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Opportunities and Challenges In The Year Ahead
Friday, 28 January 2011, 2:06 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
On a visit to New Zealand in 1891, the poet Rudyard Kipling wrote, “To tell you the truth, I never was in a place where they talked more about work and did less of it.” There must have been an element of truth in his remark. For years a common ... More >>
Free Trade Agreements and Free Trade
Friday, 14 January 2011, 2:20 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
A very interesting and important report by the Australian Productivity Commission was released last month. Implicitly, its conclusions call into question the emphasis of New Zealand’s trade policy. The Productivity Commission was asked by the Australian ... More >>
Savings Working Group Serves Up Strange Report
Monday, 10 January 2011, 11:29 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Highly critical comments are circulating about this month’s Interim Report of the Savings Working Group. One expert in the field emailed me saying, “I suggest Mr English disband the SWG right now. What value has it added?” The report is indeed ... More >>
Abolition of Gift Duty Long Overdue
Friday, 17 December 2010, 4:32 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The wheels of bureaucracy can sure grind exceeding slow. Inertia and risk aversion on the part of bureaucrats often defeat overwhelming arguments for change. The exercise of abolishing gift duty is a good illustration of much that is wrong with the policy ... More >>
Investors Should Remember Caveat Emptor
Friday, 17 December 2010, 1:28 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
This year has been a mixed bag as far as regulation of New Zealand’s capital markets is concerned. It began badly with the government scrambling to simplify its cumbersome and costly financial advisers legislation, which was a response to the finance company ... More >>
Stronger Action Needed to Boost Growth and Reduce Risks
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 4:31 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“It is pleasing that official projections confirm a gradual pick-up in activity but the growth outlook is relatively weak and the economy is vulnerable to adverse events”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, ... More >>
The Value of a CEO
Friday, 3 December 2010, 1:59 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Executive pay has been in the news again, with recent reports of the remuneration packages of Sir Ralph Norris, CEO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and George Frazis, head of Westpac New Zealand. Some claim they are unfair or undeserved. How should ... More >>
Thus Does the Economy Grow
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The goals of an ideal economic-growth agenda are simple and well known: a large and thriving private sector and a small government; reduced government spending, which means lower taxes (or at least not higher ones) and smaller deficits; open ... More >>
Left, Right and Wrong on Taxes
Monday, 22 November 2010, 12:47 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
GIVEN the furor from both the left and the right, one would be tempted to think that the initial proposal from the co-chairmen of President Obama’s fiscal commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, must offer an excellent starting point for a discussion ... More >>
Business Roundtable Supports Debating Championship
Saturday, 20 November 2010, 10:12 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Business Roundtable is proud to continue its association with debating in New Zealand by sponsoring the Grand Final of the British Parliamentary Debating Championships to be hosted by Hon Chris Finlayson on behalf of the Victoria University Debating ... More >>
Aboriginal Leader Noel Pearson to Deliver Lecture
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 11:53 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The 15th annual New Zealand Business Roundtable Sir Ronald Trotter lecture will be delivered by Noel Pearson at a dinner at The Auckland War Memorial Museum on 2 November 2010. A lawyer and the founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, ... More >>
Should We Restrict Foreign Investment in Land?
Friday, 8 October 2010, 11:30 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Every few years New Zealand has a debate about land sales to foreigners. More >>
Auckland Shows Benefits of Rationalising Water
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 2:42 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
This week’s announcement that customers will benefit from lower prices from the integrated water business in Auckland was predictable and good news, Business Roundtable executive director, Roger Kerr, said today. More >>
What’s All This About New Zealand Management?
Friday, 27 August 2010, 4:16 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Last month Rebecca Macfie wrote an article in the Listener entitled “Our slack bosses”. In it she argued that “one of New Zealand’s dirtiest little secrets is that our businesses are not very well managed” and that “the poor quality ... More >>
Savings Working Group a Good Initiative
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 5:12 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The savings debate has not always been well-informed, and it’s good that the government has put together a well qualified group to advise it. More >>
Government’s Liquor Decisions Sensible
Monday, 23 August 2010, 3:20 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The government deserves credit for its level-headed decisions on alcohol”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. “It has clearly listened to evidence and argument and avoided over-reaction." More >>
Leading Lawyer Appointed As Roundtable Chair
Friday, 20 August 2010, 5:31 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
New Zealand Business Roundtable members have elected Roger Partridge as the new chair of the organisation. He replaces Rob McLeod who was appointed in July by Ernst & Young to be managing partner, New Zealand and Australia, based in Sydney. More >>
Reflections On A Life Well Lived
Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 5:43 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Tribute to Sir Ron Trotter: While we all know that Ron had lived the best and fullest of lives, and was ready to take his leave, that doesn’t lessen the grief that comes with losing a great and dear friend, colleague, mentor and leader. More >>
Tributes Flow For Roundtable Founding Chairman
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 4:57 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Business Roundtable Chairman Rob McLeod and Executive Director Roger Kerr today paid tribute to the organisation’s founding chairman and business icon Sir Ronald Ramsey Trotter, who died peacefully at his Kapiti Coast home last night after a long illness. More >>
New Thinking On Council Spending In UK
Monday, 2 August 2010, 4:32 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The UK government has announced its intention to introduce automatic referenda if the rate of increase in council tax (rates) exceeds a threshold set by parliament” More >>
