Business

All five defendants in the Serious Fraud Office prosecution of South Canterbury Finance associates have now been identified.

Confidence in house buying continues to slide - for the third consecutive quarter - and there remains a continued decline in new house listings.

The Morningstar research report for KiwiSaver returns to December 31, 2011 make interesting reading.

Dunedin firm Keogh McCormack has expressed significant concerns surrounding the lack of regulations in the property management industry. It believes monies are at greater risk than most landlords and tenants perceive, as Sally Rae reports.

Fonterra is appointing NZX to operate the Fonterra Shareholders Market as part of Trading Among Farmers.

Big business forestry owners and farmers with small forestry interests are on a collision course over a proposal for an industry-wide compulsory levy order.

The southern Great South Basin is included as one of 25 offshore and onshore oil and gas blocks being put out to tender for exploration, under five-year permits.

Prime Minister John Key has remembered businessman Lloyd Morrison as a passionate New Zealand who "threw everything he had'' at life.

A referendum of forest owners is being sought by the Forest Owners Association which is proposing an industry-wide compulsory levy order under the Commodity Levies Act, to replace largely voluntary annual donations.

In-market lamb prices are continuing to retreat from their record highs in mid-2011.