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Q&A with the head of New Zealand’s Infrastructure Commission

  Ross Copland, chief executive of the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission Te Waihanga, discusses the commission’s work, focus areas for 2021 and the scale of projects in the pipeline for Auckland.

Published: 12 JAN 2021
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New Zealand’s new government: a seismic shift but business as usual

  New Zealand’s general election last month saw the New Zealand Labour Party, leaders of the previous coalition government, returned to power in a landslide and given a historic mandate to govern alone.

Published: 24 NOV 2020
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Q&A: diversification and stability key for corporate investment fund

  Singapore-based SC Capital Partners (SCCP) is an Asia Pacific real estate investment management firm specialising in physical assets such as office, retail, logistics and student accommodation properties. Natalie Massey (Executive Director, Deputy Fund Manager), Isaac Leo (Director, Investment)...

Published: 24 NOV 2020
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FDI opportunities still looking good

  Topping the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings for the fourth year running, New Zealand saw more greenfield projects from January to September than in the whole of 2019. And, despite the pandemic, foreign direct investment (FDI) is likely to remain strong, countering the global trend...

Published: 24 NOV 2020
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Decathlon joins the retail race

Since mid-2018, our Invest Auckland team has worked closely with sporting goods global giant Decathlon – which has more than 1600 large format stores in 57 countries – to help it establish a presence in New Zealand. By mid-2020, Decathlon had launched as a first "test and learn phase” – an initial...

Published: 14 OCT 2020
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Q&A: an investor’s journey to setting up in New Zealand

  Chris Watson, an IT and modular homes expert, tells us about his motivations for settling in Auckland and some of the helpful contacts he found along the way.

Published: 11 SEP 2020
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Auckland’s economic recovery: a snapshot of economic indicators

  Despite the recent two-week lockdown to contain a COVID-19 cluster, Auckland remains open for business and investment activity. This overview of common indicators shows the relative health and position of the Auckland economy at this point in time. As we navigate the disruption caused by the...

Published: 28 AUG 2020
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Building and infrastructure investments for fiscal stimulus

  The building and infrastructure sector in New Zealand is seeing unprecedented pipeline and planned investments. Some estimates put investment funds at around NZ$47 billion over the next five years, which provides the required scale and direction for various stakeholders – national and...

Published: 21 AUG 2020
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New Zealand’s general election – What it doesn’t mean for the economy

  New Zealand has a global reputation as an open, market-led economy, one of the least corrupt nations in the world and one of the easiest to invest and trade with. Thanks to a stable political system and an ingrained sense of fair play, this won’t change – whatever the result of September’s...

Published: 28 JUL 2020