Ensuring the best deal from our strategic assets
We need real clarity in New Zealand about what characteristics make a government asset a ‘strategic asset’. Much of the public debate concerning asset sales has centred on the term ‘strategic asset’, yet this term is not defined within the Treasury glossary, in the Mixed Ownership Model Bill or even in legislation governing public finance,...
Asset Sales Debate: An interesting segment on Morning Report
On Monday 30th April, Morning Report talked to investment banker Rob Cameron who asserts that the Government’s efforts to secure public support for the planned asset sales have been a ‘disaster’. Cameron served as the Chairmen of the Capital Market Development Taskforce, the body which initially recommended the partial sale of assets to boost New...
An Update on Asset Sales
The ongoing assets sales debate presents interesting questions for New Zealand’s future and is a debate we should all be interested in. To keep you up to date with the process, this post presents some of the key points of the proposed legislation and where it stands today. The National Government’s Mixed Ownership Model (MOM)...
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