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| From: | Will Bryant <will@sharechat.co.nz> |
| Date: | Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:24:15 +1300 |
Hi everyone, a selection of articles from this week's NBR are online now. This week: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hart blasts back as wealthiest man A recent surge in the share price of Australia's Burns Philp has made entrepreneur Graeme Hart New Zealand's richest citizen by a big margin http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/5ccc19fa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Money Managers passes up on industry scrutiny Despite being entrusted with $2 billion of local investors' money, aggressive marketer Money Managers chooses not to be part of any independent industry body http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/90a4f92a ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $20 million Wilson Neill loss? Auditors have signed off Wilson Neill Corporation's long overdue financial accounts - but at press time yesterday the renegade listed company had still not filed to the Companies' Office http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/604f2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Zealand Post deal makes Maltese cross A political brouhaha lashed Malta following last week's disclosure New Zealand Post was taking over the tiny Mediterranean island's postal service http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/5b6bae6f ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Air NZ CEO warns of two years to turn it around The former head of the Business Roundtable - a body reviled by the coalition government - has the job of turning around an airline the government effectively nationalised to rescue it from bankruptcy http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/96d2633a ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tower gets over its annus horribilus Share prices of insurance companies were particularly badly hit after September 11 last year, even when they were not exposed to reinsurance losses on the World Trade Centre http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/70840969 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wide choice for investors who spot undervalued companies Investors who like buying shares whose prices are discounted below their net asset backing had a choice of 30 companies this week http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/1868637a ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Annoyed market punishes Fisher & Paykel Fisher & Paykel Healthcare was punished by an unforgiving market yesterday after surprising investors with a lower-than-expected third- quarter result http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/0b606f39 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Far too many listed companies resort to corporate balderdash It is time company directors and executives of listed companies looked critically at the verbal rubbish they sign off after examining draft from their internal or external "corporate communications" specialists http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/c2b23cfa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teaching kids about the treaty won't pay the bills or build up export businesses Waitangi Day came and went with the predictable circus of professional protest and a call by Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright for yet more taxpayers' money to be spent on treaty education http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/9c7fba41 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Touches of the bizarre seen in banks and major corporates Observers of the financial and economic scenes had minor and major news to ponder in the three holiday-shortened weeks, apart from Parliament's re-opening on Tuesday http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/405559f9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tax issues mask a solid INL result Tax and accounting issues related to Sky Network Television muddied a solid operating result for Independent Newspapers Ltd http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/bdb4c1d5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The week in review ASB Bank's unaudited after-tax operating profit rose 18% to $106 million for the six months to December 31 on the back of a 40% increase in home loan approvals and a 41% increase in business and rural loans http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/ba30c3a8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Analysts question handling of Bendon bid by directors Eyebrows are being raised over Bendon directors' handling of competing takeover bids from the company's own management and Pacific Retail Group http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/887010da ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fletcher Building boss finds a handyman's dream come true and tightens the screws Fletcher Building may have presented shareholders with an $82 million earnings turnaround but Ralph Waters, its pragmatic Australian chief executive, is remaining rationally unexuberant http://www.sharechat.co.nz/features/nbr/article.php/cbe18243 _______________________________________________________________________ Will Bryant ShareChat technical manager will@sharechat.co.nz http://www.sharechat.co.nz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, please use the form at http://www.sharechat.co.nz/chat/forum/
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