A very good profile of Allan Hubbard by Rebecca Macfie – worth a read for anyone interested in South Canterbury Finance (source)
The “A-list” of angel/private investors in the New Zealand market (source)
More early-stage financing innovation – debt (source)
Twitter has 190 million users Tweeting 65 million times a day (source)
More early-stage financing – the signalling impact of inside vs outside financing (source)
The purpose of business is profit? (source)
Evening Standard (London newspaper) almost in profit after going free (source)
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Telecom New Zealand (TEL) is New Zealand’s largest telecommunications provider.
Telecom’s website has a range of investor information about the company.
The NZX website has a range of market information and links to relevant Fairfax media stories.
The free Reuters website has more detailed financial information (search using TEL.NZ).
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Why I sold Zappos – includes insights on the pressures external investors extert (source)
Behind Foursquare and Gowalla – background on the hot location-base-services start-ups (source)
Facebook’s market capitalisation on SecondMarket is now US$25 billion (bigger than Yahoo’s) (source)
The future of Netflix’s business laid bare – by Netflix (source)
Ethical capital is capitalism’s new cornerstone – Umair Haque at HBR (source)
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One of the questions that we regularly get asked is – How do I research companies on the NZX?
Here at Woodward Partners we are going to focus on a couple of companies each week and show you where to get information about them. This isn’t going to be valuation analysis – but links to information about those companies.
We are going to start with the company that is currently has the largest market capitalisation on the NZX – Fletcher Building (stock-code FBU).
Fletcher Building (FBU)
If you look at the major on-line finance sites searching for New Zealand companies you will find some information – but it is pretty limited. For example Fletcher Building on Yahoo Finance and Google Finance. With any international finance site – if you are researching New Zealand companies use the NZX stock-ticker with the “.nz” suffix attached (for example FBU.NZ).
A good starting point for any company is their own website – Fletcher Building. There you will details about the company and some financial information.
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