The answer is the exported profits of transnational corporations.
Proving that foreign “investment” actually sucks out more money out of New Zealand than it puts in.
Here is the relevant extract from CAFCA’s newly updated Key Facts.
http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/CAFCA/blueball.gifTransnational corporations (TNCs) make massive profits out of New Zealand. These can truly be called New Zealand’s biggest invisible export. In the year to March 2015, they were $9.0 billion. Over the last decade they have averaged more than the combined exports of seafood and milk powder. In the decade 2006-2015, TNCs made $77.5 billion in profits from New Zealand, an average rate of profit after tax on their shareholdings of 12.5% (12.0% in the year to March 2015). Only 26% was reinvested (only 15% in the year to March 2015). Profits have averaged twice the increase in foreign direct investment holdings each year.
http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/CAFCA/blueball.gif Another $7.9 billion left New Zealand in the year to March 2015 made up of investment income from debt and smaller shareholdings (portfolio investment), making a total $16.9 billion. Over the last decade this has averaged more than the combined dairy and forest product exports. More than two out of every five dollars of the $16.9 billion went to the owners of New Zealand’s banking sector: $6.9 billion. The investment income from overseas ownership of the banking sector (“Deposit taking corporations”) after taking account of its small investment income from abroad, accounted for four out of every five dollars of New Zealand’s current account deficit in the year to March 2015: $6.5 billion compared to $8.1 billion. The investment income deficit (income on New Zealand investment overseas less income on foreign investment in New Zealand) has been greater than the current account deficit for all but two years since 1989, which further increases New Zealand’s foreign liabilities.
The full Key Facts complete with sources (meticulously researched and compiled by CAFCA’s Bill Rosenberg), can be read at http://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/community/CAFCA/key-facts.html
“These can truly be called New Zealand’s biggest invisible export” I think it would be better to call it an import, we get their c..p service & they take our money. An export is when we send goods/services overseas & they send us money.
Wow, explosive stuff! +100
“These can truly be called New Zealand’s biggest invisible export”
The biggest global scam this is, that is rightly called a “Ponzi scheme” folks or the biggest scam in history.
https://www.google.co.nz/?gws_rd=ssl#q=ponzi+scheme+nz
Feb 22, 2016 – Christchurch-based Arena Capital, which owes clients $7 million, was running a simple Ponzi scheme, says a High Court judge. – New Zealand
• Liquidators go after ‘fictitious’ profit paid out to investors
As of last August clients were owed $7 million, while only $728,000 was in the company’s bank account. The liquidators have signalled they may try to claw back these allegedly “fictitious profits”.
Justice Cameron Mander, in a High Court stoush over how to treat funds deposited in Arena’s accounts after its assets were frozen, said the company did not conduct any trades.
” ‘Profits’ the clients were led to believe existed were in fact fictitious. Monies disbursed to clients to maintain the facade of an active operation were paid out from deposits from other clients. Arena was operating in essence a simple Ponzi scheme,” the judge said.
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