Markets with Madison

The market is pricing in cuts to wholesale rates this year, but it’s still depending on some statistics.

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Cannasouth ($CBD) claimed to be New Zealand’s biggest medicinal cannabis company. Now, it’s in voluntary administration. 

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The CEOs of NAB and BNZ explain how their trans-Tasman banking operation works, and who's economy is winning, in this live interview. 

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One of the biggest hospitality groups, Savor, has turned its finances around with a relentless focus on margins. Its CEO reveals how much its restaurants like Amano make a week. 

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Research from Mercer reveals private equity is the best asset of the past decade but there’s an even better performer that was left off the list – Bitcoin.

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Investors like monopolies, but consumers and Governments loathe them. This episode explores our love-hate relationship with market dominance.

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The Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand explains how the expansion of money supply and higher consumer prices have eroded people’s purchasing power. 

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Briscoe Group made an $84m profit while The Warehouse and Kathmandu are in decline. Its owner, Rod Duke, reveals his secret formula for managing stock and avoiding debt.

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Infrastructure funding requires trillions of dollars every year. Here’s how investment firms Morrison, Macquarie & KKR are making the most of it.

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Australian entrepreneur Sam Wood sold his online fitness business in a deal worth NZ$82 million. Now he's chasing DNA testing as the next industry innovation to take off. 

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ERoad is adopting AI to ensure its business isn’t driven off route by Tesla and other high-tech electric vehicles. Its new co-CEO explains how its vehicle tracking software works.

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It’s been exactly one year since Silicon Valley Bank collapsed after investment losses resulted in a bank run. Why smaller banks are still battling a confidence crisis.

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Ark Invest CIO Cathie Wood believes Bitcoin will one day be a US$20 trillion asset. In this interview, she explains how ETFs and the halving event are boosting Bitcoin’s price expectations.

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Index and exchange traded fund managers have become market beasts. How BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street overtook investment managers.

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Commercial property developers are selling assets to pay down debilitating debt as it gets more expensive to service.

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Central banks are in a global race to get inflation under control. The Reserve Bank of NZ was first to hike amid the pandemic, but it may be the last to cut.

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The Warehouse Group just sold Torpedo7 for $1 after buying it for $55.2 million. While Kathmandu’s sales are struggling. Where to now for woeful retailers? 

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A team effort to boost investor confidence and economic growth is underway in China after Evergrande’s failure.

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The just-resigned CEO of the biggest construction company, Ross Taylor, explains how Fletcher Building has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in a matter of years, and if it can ever be fixed.

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Ian Macoun’s firm Pinnacle Investment Management beats the market more than 80% of the time. Learn how to invest from the icon himself.

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The amount of money in bank term deposits has hit $213 billion - up 36 per cent in three years. An ANZ bank executive explains if it will keep paying rates this high and who is better off investing.

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This episode takes you inside Legend Story Studios, the NZ card game company making millions. Its CEO reveals how it's chasing Hasbro’s US$1b Magic: The Gathering 'Unicorn' status.

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Many stocks were battered on the NZX last year, meaning there may be cheap opportunity on the table. Investment firm Forsyth Barr reveals its top picks for the year.

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Its motto is ‘money without borders’, but the GBP£8.26 billion ($16.88 billion) payments technology company Wise only transacts an estimated five per cent of all money moved globally. Its co-founder and CEO explains how he plans to capture the rest.

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Hear from Madison at the Deloitte Top 200 Business Awards to find out what’s on executives' minds, and how they’re positioning for 2024.

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Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla placed his biggest bet on OpenAI. In this interview he discusses the Altman incident, what’s at stake in the AI race and how investors can identify instigators of change.

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ASB and BNZ have launched high-growth investment funds as more money flows to active managers. How the CEO of Milford Asset Management plans to curb the competition.  

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Billionaires are buying into a once boring bond market, according to the fixed income trading firm Coolabah Capital Investments. Its founder explains how it's finding mispricings in a US$133 trillion market.

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a2 Milk is growing its share of a declining infant formula market in China, leading analysts to expect it to outperform. Can it ever return to the innovative empire it once was?

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Investors are ditching SkyCity as its gambling business becomes unpalatable. Its chairman Julian Cook addresses its major regulatory issues and potential multi-million dollar fines

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OpenAI axed chief executive Sam Altman, leading its President Greg Brockman to quit. Here’s all the events that led to the surprise sacking and his potential comeback.

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The chair of Meridian Energy – a power company the Government half-sold in 2014 – says they should sell more state assets. This episode looks at how much money has been earned from Meridian, Mercury and Genesis since carving them off.

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Rocket Lab’s CEO Peter Beck explains why he's chasing mass to orbit with a new US$50m rocket to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.

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Greg Foran led Air New Zealand through its most turbulent time in history, without any airline experience. Now the pandemic is over, he reveals the mark he wants to make on the national carrier

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The country’s largest retailer The Warehouse Group has seen its annual profit tumble by 65.6 per cent. Its CEO explains how it’s managing increased costs and crime.

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Dairy co-operative Fonterra has executed a recovery with a record $1.6 billion profit. But milk product demand is declining in China and farmers are facing financial pressure.

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Electricity generation companies are spending billions on wind, solar, and geothermal power plants to take New Zealand to 100 per cent renewable – who will win and lose the race? 

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Goldman Sachs researchers estimate China’s total property debt was 48 per cent of GDP at the end of last year, worth US$8.4 trillion. Their chief economist explains how it could cause a “significant negative income shock” for some New Zealanders.

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The author of best-selling book Chip War explains why efforts to rely less on companies like Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) won’t work.

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The cost to finish the troubled NZ International Convention Centre has hit $1 billion. Here’s what Fletcher Building CEO Ross Taylor really thinks about it. 

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