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Boom times for debt collectors

Author philosophical about book error

Blood and oil: Tragedy stains African move

Driving through Nairobi with blood pouring from a gunshot wound is not what Alan Mountfort visualised when he answered an ad to invest in an olive grove.

NZ firms told to pay up $53m

A US judge has ordered two NZ incorporated companies to pay US$40 million to 200 American investors for running a "mini Ponzi scheme".

Advice-givers are regulation price-takers

<i>Brent Sheather</i>: Heads the advisers win, tails you lose

Big private firms in spotlight

Private equity firms and other big privately-held companies may be forced to open their books.

Don't punish private companies, lawyer tells MED

Proposals to make private companies file financial statements as if they were publicly traded should be scrapped immediately, a lawyer says.

<i>Yoke Har Lee:</i> Magic numbers take Kiwi firm further

Expert comes up with honest answer to frauds

Weak competitors have larger SME's smacking lips

Blue Chip investors lose case

Pensioners Bruce and Judy Bartle have lost their case against the finance company that lent them more than their house was worth to invest in Blue Chip.

Blue Chip court battle loss for pensioners

The High Court has dismissed a claim by Whangarei pensioners Judy and Bruce Bartle that GE Money acted wrongly when it lent them money to buy a Blue Chip apartment.

Power to oust 'incompetent and unskilled' liquidators, receivers

Commerce Minister Simon Power plans to force out "incompetent and unskilled" liquidators and receivers in a bid to improve regulation of insolvency practitioners.

Foreign investors took out $9 billion last year

Fat pay packets still in the private sector - survey

Engineering bosses are among the best paid in NZ but public sector bosses aren't the fat cats of public perception, a survey finds.

Watchdog's new faces to focus on investors

Blue Chip verdict could open door

A High Court decision ordering a financial adviser to pay an elderly widow $250,000 could become a "benchmark" for other claims.