Investors in New Zealand Oil & Gas are pressing the company to resume paying dividends now that it is profitable again.

First report is out, but Mad Butcher owner "disagrees strongly" with findings.

Former Ross Asset Management investor Hamish McIntosh told the Supreme Court he was entitled to fictitious returns on $500,000 he invested in the ponzi scheme.

A test case that will decide how much the liquidators of David Ross' ponzi scheme can claw back from investors is being argued in the Supreme Court today.

Andy Macleod, the chief executive of the Chinese-owned Pengxin New Zealand Farm Group, has resigned.

COMMENT: Just like Australia, New Zealand has rampant property prices, and our tax system allows negative gearing.

Welcome to squeezing in and squeezing up on Auckland's northwestern outskirts.

New Zealand firms turned optimistic about the state of the economy in the June quarter.

Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling have agreed in principle to extend the deadline for their joint venture.

When this CEO gets the occasional phone call from a shareholder they're genuinely taken aback to be speaking directly to the boss rather than his PA.

The angel investment market in New Zealand is maturing and playing an important role in growing the economy, reports Tim McCready.

SkyCity raised about 70 per cent of the $263 million it's seeking for expansion in a share sale to institutional investors.

COMMENT: If all the heavy stuff, the tangible assets, are gone - what has replaced it?

The wind up of Bradley's B'on Financial Services has netted little return for Jacqui Bradley's 28 victims.

The deals include a South Island farming station which can be sold to Hong Kong interests.

Which New Zealand shares are the biggest cash earners?

1 percent of firms surveyed in the NZ Institute of Economic Research's quarterly survey of business opinion expect general business conditions to deteriorate.

NZX lifted annual profit 82 per cent in 2015 as the one-off gain from the sale of its Link Market Services division bolstered flat earnings.

The prime minister wooed investors at a glitzy event, but executives said more reforms are needed.

Hellaby Holdings, the diversified investment company, posted a 65 per cent drop in first-half profit with revenue from three of its four segments falling.

Business and industry group leaders have lent their support to the TPP free trade agreement in an open letter to Prime Minister John Key.

Veritas Investments shares plunged 42 per cent after the food and beverage investor downgraded its outlook for earnings and nixed a first-half dividend.

But China's firms can't buy their way to success.

Former investors in Allan Hubbard's Aorangi Securities and Hubbard Management Funds will have to chase the deceased businessman's estate if they want to pursue as much as five years of unpaid interest.

It won't be business as usual for Iranian oil exporters. Much has happened since sanctions were tightened.

Greenheart Group has signed a conditional deal to buy Northland Forest Managers (1995) for $1.5 million.

Sir Ron Brierley's Mercantile Investments raised $1.4 million in a discounted share placement to local wholesale investors.

JP Morgan Chase will pay more than $300m to settle US allegations that it didn't disclose its preference for putting clients' money into investment products.

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