Pacific Edge raises $16 million of new equity
On Friday, the cancer diagnostics company announced a $20 million capital raise, saying it was about ensuring it had the cash reserves to capitalise on recent clinical and commercial milestones, grow in non-Medicare channels in the United States and regain Medicare coverage of its tests.
It comprised a placement of $15 million of new ordinary shares offered to selected investors and an offer of $5 million of new shares to retail investors, by way of a share-purchase plan.
The share issue was priced at $0.10 per share.
This morning, the company said the place — which was well supported by existing shareholders — was completed on Friday and is subject to shareholder approval.
It was now targeting the opening of a $5 million offer to eligible retail investors by way of a Share Purchase Plan (SPP) at the same NZ$0.10 cents per share offer price in July or early August 2025, with the ability to accept oversubscriptions. _ APL
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2 days ago
- NZ Herald
How to create inter-generational family wealth
'The theory is that each time I have a child born, I would invest $22,000. The key is that the investment is not for my children but for my grandchildren. So for example, my child, let's call him Tim. 'When Tim is born I invest $22,000. When Tim turns 65, the investment is worth, say, $1 million. Each of Tim's children (who would be probably 30-40 years old) would be entitled to get a split of the payout. Note Tim does not participate in the investment. 'For Tim's children to receive their share, all they have to do is make an equivalent investment for their children to keep it running. They could make it out of their share of their payment. 'This may sound complicated, but the only difficulty I can see is the initial investment to be made. However, once past that hurdle, the scheme is self-perpetuating and, if you look forward far enough, covers potentially hundreds or thousands of descendants. 'I'm curious if this is a worthwhile idea or not. Considering the opportunity cost, what do you think? Note I have not yet thought through the funds management aspects or the 'trustee' responsibilities in 65 years.' A: I love it – even though your email makes me feel as if I'm back at high school, and I've been conned into helping someone do their homework! Other readers' main objection to doing something similar themselves, I suspect, will be that many couples making babies don't have $22,000 sitting around. But they could start with, say, $5000 or even $1000, and make a point of adding to it as soon as possible. Or in some cases, a grandparent might help. I like that your son isn't committing others in future to putting in money they may not have, given they can use some of their gift to invest for the next generation of recipients. Some issues for your son and others to think about: Your son suggests a return of 6%. That would have to be after fees and tax. It's probably a reasonable assumption if the money is invested in a share fund or a non-KiwiSaver aggressive fund. You would need to stick with it – not switching when the balance falls in a market downturn. If that's likely to be difficult for you, use a lower-risk fund and settle for a lower end balance. As your son acknowledges, inflation will eat into how much a future balance will buy. But it will still be great for the recipient – for perhaps a house deposit, or to repay a chunk of a mortgage. The amount a recipient puts in to keep the scheme running would need to be adjusted for inflation. If you have more than one child, obviously you would want to do the same for all of them. But what if one of your children has more kids than another?Cousins will be treated unequally. Maybe that's okay, but it's worth thinking about. What if one of your children has no offspring? Perhaps you could specify that they give the money to a charity of their choice. As your son notes, this would have to be set up with legal expertise. Basically, he is making the most of the power of a compounding investment over a really long time. I say: 'Go for it!' Small difference becomes big Q: Not a question, but a spectacular example of how a return of 8% versus 6% makes a massive difference after 42 years, is given in an online table I found. The 6% after 42 years provides $597,000. But the 8% provides $986,000, being nearly two-thirds more. A: You're right. Over long periods, a somewhat higher return makes a huge difference. That's why it would be best if the family in the previous Q&A, or anyone who wants to copy the idea, uses a high-risk fund – probably one that holds just shares. Stay with insurance Q: One of the benefits I received at my previous job was fully subsidised Southern Cross health insurance (Wellbeing One plan). Unfortunately, my new role does not include this coverage. I've since been in contact with Southern Cross, and continuing the policy independently would cost around $230 per month. Given that I've made very few claims in the past, I'm considering the alternative of setting that money aside in a dedicated savings account to cover any potential future health expenses. I'm in my late fifties, in good health and maintain a balanced lifestyle with daily exercise and a healthy diet. That said, I'm mindful that health needs can change unexpectedly. My current policy is on hold until the end of August, so I need to make a decision soon. I would really appreciate your thoughts or any guidance you may have on what might be the best course of action. A: There's no clear answer to your question – or the many variations on it that seem to come into my conversations often, now that my friends and I are no longer spring chickens! Let's just say that if I were you, I would keep the health insurance going. You may look back later and say you would have been better off if you had followed your self-insurance plan. But what people often ignore is peace of mind in the meantime. It's worth a lot to know that if you do suddenly develop a serious health issue, you won't have to either wait for perhaps months to get help or find big sums of money for treatment. The last thing you need at that time is money worries as well. And being in good health in your fifties – or sixties or seventies – certainly doesn't come with a guarantee that it will continue. Clearly, leading a healthy lifestyle must help you to fight any health nasties, but it doesn't prevent them. On the other hand, you will be shocked at how quickly health insurance premiums rise as you get older. You can keep costs down to some extent by limiting cover to specialist care, rather than including GP visits, and by increasing your excess – the amount you have to pay before insurance kicks in. How much? Dunno Q: Another health insurance question. My husband and I are both 65 and face the common question of continuing our health insurance or to self-insure. It is hard to make this decision without a ballpark figure for self-insurance. I totally appreciate everyone's health is so variable and I understand the reluctance by brokers to provide a figure, but some guidance would be helpful and appreciated. Can you help? A: Sorry, but no. Or, if you insist, several hundred thousand dollars. Some medical procedures, including scans and surgery, cost thousands. What's more, you can't predict whether you will need several procedures at much the same time, as different parts of your body decide to misbehave. When to switch Q: You often refer to switching funds as locking in your losses. I never fully understood that. It makes sense to me if one switches funds because they are scared during a market drop and switch to a lower-risk fund long term. But in your view: does that apply to all fund switches? What are the risks when switching a fund? If I switch to a higher-risk fund while the market is down, do I still lock in any losses? I know timing the market is futile, but I don't understand what the downsides to switching at any given point are. A: I've been waiting for the markets to wobble again before running this Q&A. Funnily enough, it hasn't really happened for a while. Then again, it could happen between my deadline time and the time you read this. So let's get on with it! First, we'll look at switching to a lower-risk fund during a downturn. Let's say that your account balance falls from $20,000 to $15,000. If you worry it will fall further, and therefore you reduce your risk, you've locked in the $5000 loss. You won't get that money back again when the markets rise, because your new fund doesn't hold many shares, if any. And recovery always happens – although sometimes it takes a while, and occasionally several years. If, however, you had stayed the course, your balance would have returned to $20,000 or higher. You would have lost nothing. In those circumstances I would say, 'Sorry, but if you can't cope with volatility you shouldn't have been in a high-risk fund in the first place. But okay, if you really can't sleep, just take the loss and move to lower risk. And, importantly, stay there'. On other fund switches, it depends. If you move to higher risk during a downturn, that's a pretty good move. You've bought at a relatively low price and will benefit when prices later recover. That's called contrarian investing – moving in the opposite direction to most people. The trouble is it involves market timing which, as you say, is a fool's game. When the market falls, for example, we never know if it might fall a long way further, followed by a slow recovery. So the rule is: reducing risk in a downturn is bad; increasing risk in a downturn may be good – but only if you're lucky. 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Of course it's all about timing, but for those who follow the world indices figures, such as the VOO or similar, it is not too difficult to do. A: It's not just difficult, it's impossible if you want to get it right more than occasionally by luck. As I've said often, it can work well for retired people to hold money they expect to spend in 10 or more years in an aggressive fund – usually a fund that holds shares only. But it's not a good place for shorter-term money. Your balance in such a fund can quite suddenly plunge – occasionally as much as halving. And, as noted above, recovery can sometimes take several years. Meanwhile, the grocery purchases can't wait. You're suggesting we simply watch how the markets are moving and switch to a lower-risk fund at market peaks – in other words, right before a market downturn. The big question – one that every active fund manager in the world would love to be able to answer – is when a market has peaked. 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Send questions to mary@ Letters should not exceed 200 words. We won't publish your name. Please provide a (preferably daytime) phone number. Unfortunately, Mary cannot answer all questions, correspond directly with readers, or give financial advice.
Techday NZ
7 days ago
- Techday NZ
Exclusive: SAP's Ashley McGibbon on AI, data and the future of partner innovation
SAP is betting big on artificial intelligence, but only if it's built on a solid foundation of accurate data. Speaking to TechDay at the SAP NOW AI Tour in Melbourne, Chief Partner Officer for SAP Australia and New Zealand, Ashley McGibbon, said partners in the region were "pivoting to meet fast-growing demand for AI solutions". "In ANZ we have about 800 partners – from those building applications, to services partners, to those helping us sell and position our cloud solutions," she said. "The focus is no longer just on go-live. It's about continuous adoption." This vision is captured in SAP's "flywheel" model, which combines applications, data and AI to build momentum for ongoing innovation. Introduced this year, the concept draws on the physics principle where connected components generate increasing energy. For McGibbon, it's not just about clever technology – it's about feeding AI the right inputs. "We run mission-critical business processes, and those processes hold a treasure trove of business-critical data," she explained. "Our Business Data Cloud allows customers to harmonise SAP and non-SAP data, structured and unstructured, to feed AI with accurate business data." Without that accuracy, she warned, AI can go badly wrong. "If they can't trust the data feeding the AI, then the decisions will ultimately be wrong," she said. "It's far easier to achieve a harmonised platform with Business Data Cloud." McGibbon said SAP values partners who work quickly and with purpose, adopting a "minimum viable product" mindset to deliver rapid returns for customers. She noted a surge of AI interest at board level, with directors eager to explore how it can boost productivity, in line with the Australian Government's focus on data-driven efficiency. The response to Business Data Cloud since its February launch has been "the most reception to a new product" SAP has ever had in the region. The momentum is already visible in real-world deployments. SA Power Networks has built a generative AI app on SAP's Business Technology Platform that delivers mobile repair instructions directly to technicians in the field, saving the utility a million Australian dollars in its first year. Beverage company Lion built an app in just 10 days, a sign of how diverse industries are embracing AI. McGibbon pointed to Deloitte's recent CFO study, which found 80 per cent of CFOs in APAC prioritise automation through AI. "Everybody's talking about it," she said. For partners still making the shift to cloud and AI, McGibbon said enablement is key. SAP has opened its AI demo systems to partners, rolled out a new business AI certification, and launched "Joule for consultants" to speed up software build and implementation. She's also watching the market evolve through moves like DyFlex's acquisition of Bluetree, which expands into New Zealand and strengthens analytics capability. "It's a combination of a cloud-native partner with an analytics partner," she said. "I think they will bring AI strategy to life across all their existing cloud customers." Central to McGibbon's message is a change in how success is measured. "In the past we celebrated go-lives. For me, it's now go-begin – get the platform right, then continue that cycle of innovation," she said. Quarterly cloud updates mean partners must be ready to help customers adopt new capabilities quickly. "That's how we make the flywheel spin." She believes AI is also prompting customers to rethink design from the outset. "Customers are demanding we look at AI as part of the design, not just copying what was done before," she said. "This is the time to do it better." Early wins, she added, are often found in human capital management. "In SuccessFactors, you can use Joule to write your performance review and it makes you sound amazing," she said. "There's a lot of low-hanging fruit for existing customers." Her advice to organisations exploring AI in the SAP ecosystem is simple but firm: talk to your partners, identify the easy use cases, and above all, get your data strategy right. "You have to get that right first," she said. "Once you've done that, the world is your oyster."
Techday NZ
31-07-2025
- Techday NZ
Commvault revenue rises 26% to USD $282 million in first quarter
Commvault has reported its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026, noting an increase in total revenue and annualised recurring revenue. Financial performance The company posted record total revenue of USD $282 million for the quarter ending 30 June 2025, representing a 26% increase compared with the same period in the previous year. Annualised recurring revenue (ARR) rose to USD $996 million, up 24% year-on-year. On a constant currency basis using 31 March 2025 spot rates, ARR increased by 21%. Subscription revenue for the quarter reached USD $182 million, a 46% year-over-year increase. This figure includes term-based license revenue of USD $109 million, up 36%, and SaaS revenue of USD $72 million, up 66% over the same period in the prior fiscal year. Subscription ARR stood at USD $844 million, marking a 33% rise year-on-year, or a 30% increase on a constant currency basis. Income from operations (EBIT) for the quarter was USD $25 million, with an operating margin of 8.9%. On a non-GAAP basis, EBIT was USD $58 million, reflecting an operating margin of 20.7%. Operating cash flow was reported at USD $32 million, and free cash flow stood at USD $30 million. Executive perspective "Commvault delivered a strong start to the fiscal year, fueled by customer growth, disciplined execution, and rising demand for our industry-leading cyber resilience platform," said Sanjay Mirchandani, President and CEO, Commvault. "With a best-in-class partner ecosystem and continuous innovation that we believe sets us apart, we are well-positioned to continue to take share in fiscal 2026 and beyond." Operational highlights For the 14th consecutive time, Commvault has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. In the first quarter, the company enhanced partnerships with organisations such as CrowdStrike, Deloitte, HPE, and Kyndryl, with the aim of strengthening incident response capabilities and cyber resilience for customers. The company also expanded its post quantum computing capabilities, focusing on supporting customers to protect highly sensitive, long-term data against evolving cyber threats. Commvault Cloud achieved GovRAMP Authorised status at the state level for its cyber resilience SaaS solutions, in addition to its existing FedRAMP High authorisation at the federal level. Guidance for the coming periods Commvault has provided financial guidance for the second quarter of fiscal 2026, accounting for current macroeconomic conditions. The company expects total revenues to be between USD $272 million and USD $274 million. Subscription revenue is forecast to range from USD $174 million to USD $176 million. Non-GAAP gross margin is anticipated to be between 81% and 82%, with a non-GAAP EBIT margin of approximately 20%. For the full fiscal year 2026, Commvault projects total revenues between USD $1,161 million and USD $1,165 million. Total ARR is forecast to grow 18% year-over-year, while subscription revenue is expected to be between USD $753 million and USD $757 million. Subscription ARR is predicted to grow 24% year-over-year. Non-GAAP gross margin is expected to remain between 81% and 82%, while non-GAAP EBIT margin is forecast at approximately 20.5%. Free cash flow for the full year is anticipated to be between USD $210 million and USD $215 million. These forecasts are based on actual first quarter results, current targets, and the pending acquisition of Satori Cyber, which is expected to close in the second quarter of fiscal 2026. The company noted that these statements are forward looking and subject to adjustments should conditions change. "Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results," the company stated. "We do not undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements."
