Wellington June 19 NZPA - The New Zealander heading big Russian investment firm Renaissance Capital is helping place Chinese funds in natural resources companies across Africa and the former Soviet Union in a push to be the biggest multi-regional emerging-markets bank.

Wellington, April 13 NZPA - New Zealand financier Stephen Jennings' move to invest in Zimbabwe has caused problems for his Russian business partner, and may cripple his dreams of buying into a United States basketball team.

Wellington, Feb 18 NZPA - New Zealand multi-millionaire Stephen Jennings has taken the reins again at the private Moscow bank he founded 15 years ago.

Wellington, Jan 29 NZPA - Treasury Secretary John Whitehead rejects the suggestion that he employs a bunch of bookish, chin-stroking, policy eggheads who spend their time sitting around dreaming up economic miseries.

Wellington, March 12 NZPA - New Zealand's richest man Graeme Hart has scorched up the rankings of the world's billionaires, according to Forbes Magazine.

Wellington, Oct 2 NZPA - A Business Roundtable lecture by expatriate New Zealand billionaire Stephen Jennings has been postponed because he has to focus on stabilising the Russian investment bank he founded.