Christchurch

Dunedin

Palmerston North

Invercargill

BT gets qualified tick, NZIT manager merges, Perpetual adds new asset class, Auckland house price update.

This edition of Investment Insights, provided by AMP Capital Investors, looks at the potential impact the looming elections in the US could have on share markets.

Fund managers were involved in two significant property announcements yesterday. St Laurence Group is set to buy the Finance Centre in Auckland for a little over $100 million and ING completed its Urbus purchase.

One of the words advisers are going to hear a lot about in future months and years is corporatisation.

The latest buzz word in financial planning and advice is corporatisation – essentially using the right tools to not only rationalise client services but also to maximise the value of your business.

Wellington

Superannuitants will be up to $10 a week worse off than they should be by the end of the year, United Future leader Peter Dunne told a Wanganui Grey Power meeting.