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A new survey of fund managers finds a change in sentiment about the share market and the overall economy, as business editor Duncan Bridgeman and Niko Kloeten explain in today’s National Business Review Print edition.
A Swedish packaging guru tells AdMedia writer VictoriaYoung what’s wrong with how Kiwi brand managers brief designers and agencies.
Editor in chief Nevil Gibson takes over the driver’s seat to reveal a surprise “globalisation” finalist in next week’s annual American Chamber of Commerce business awards.
As Air New Zealand chairman John Palmer prepares to retire, he shares lessons in governance over Lunch in the Boardroom with reporter Georgina Bond and Henri Eliot of Board Dynamics.
Economics columnist Neville Bennett congratulates Treasury for placing a plethora of working papers on its website which invite discussion – but worries about its intellectual calibre after it places so many eggs in the China basket.
Political reporter Rob Hosking previews what next Wednesday’s “triple dip” – the household labour force survey, quarterly employment survey and labour costs indices – means for a volatile labour market.
Stepping in for a holidaying Matthew Hooton, Hong Kong-based tax lawyer Cathy Odgers (better known as blogger Cactus Kate) wonders why New Zealand women are good at selling real estate, human resources, PR and marketing but apparently hopeless at converting their own value.
In Ask Me Anything, GNS duty seismologist “go-to guy” John Ristau reveals what is in store when the earth moves under your feet.
Shoeshine looks at Fletcher Building’s prospects in the light of an Australian slow down.
And if a not-something-that-comes-along-every-day land buy takes your fancy, property reporter Chris Hutching reports on a place where a new owner might rule supreme.
All this and much more is in today’s National Business Review. Out now.
Jock Anderson
Fri, 02 Aug 2013
Fri, 02 Aug 2013
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Fund managers get candid, a Swede says what’s wrong, over-scrambling the Chinese egg and Cactus Kate tells Kiwi women to pull themselves together
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