Improving New Zealand’s investment and capital markets
02 December 2010
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Chapman Tripp comments on the complex issue of how to improve New Zealand’s investment and capital raising environment, including views on the Capital Markets Development Taskforce.
02 December 2010
The Prime Minister’s intervention to speed the tax changes required to make New Zealand a successful financial hub (NZH 2 December, B1) was today welcomed by Chapman Tripp partners, Tim Williams and Casey Plunket.
02 July 2010
The long-anticipated review of New Zealand’s securities law is now underway with the launch of a 200-page discussion document seeking input on the scale, scope and direction of change. Major reform is on the cards with the replacement of the Securities Act 1978 and the Securities Markets Act 1988 as well as significant amendment to other legislation. Submissions to the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) close on 20 August 2010.
22 February 2010
Chapman Tripp has collated the Capital Market Development Taskforce recommendations according to whether the Government has accepted them, earmarked them for further consideration or rejected them.
18 February 2010
The Government’s response to the Capital Market Development Taskforce is generally positive although more detail in places and a stronger sense of urgency would have been good.
09 February 2010
The Government is facing a strong burden of expectation from business as it enters the second year of its first term. The Prime Minister sought to address this today by laying out his Government’s reform agenda in his Statement to Parliament. This Brief Counsel provides a bullet point summary of the key policy announcements, hints and signals in the PM’s speech - including an analysis of the tax component by Tax Partner Casey Plunket who was a member of the Tax Working Group.
20 January 2010
Regulatory issues must be sorted out before integration deepens, writes Chapman Tripp Partner Geof Shirtcliffe.
17 December 2009
Indications are that the Capital Market Development Taskforce’s report will be influential. All the signals from the Beehive are that the Government is well-disposed toward the Taskforce’s work and that it will pick up a number of the 60 recommendations. So exactly what is the Taskforce recommending and how strong is the package? Chapman Tripp offers some informed analysis.
16 December 2009
The careful consideration the Capital Market Development Taskforce has given to the complex issue of how to improve New Zealand’s investment and capital raising environment is encouraging, says Chapman Tripp Partner Roger Wallis.
16 August 2009
On 31 July 2009, the Capital Market Development Taskforce issued an Interim Report, which was welcomed by the Government. The Report is relatively detailed for an interim assessment and explores some of the reasons for New Zealand’s persistently thin capital markets.
16 August 2009
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22 May 2009
Some of the responsibility for the poor relative investor experience performance of New Zealand managed funds lies with our regulatory environment and Morningstar inaccuracies, not the fund managers themselves, says Tim Williams, a Partner with Chapman Tripp.
28 November 2008
Chapman Tripp today welcomed the interim recommendations from the Capital Market Development Taskforce as “refreshingly direct”.