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Preparation of complex financial models to assess damages and valuation calculations.

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Economic & Market Analysis

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Evaluations

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Financial Modelling

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International Arbitration

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Sapere works with government departments, regulators and regulated entities to provide specialist support and advice, regulatory system and detailed modelling design.

Strategy & Business Cases

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Valuations

Specialists in valuing businesses, shares, debt, derivative securities and intangible assets for financial reporting, taxation, unit pricing, disputes, acquisitions and group reconstruction.

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Growing social housing—Building Financial Capacity of Housing Agencies program evaluation

  • Client: Department of Treasury and Finance (Victoria)
The Victorian Treasury offered A$1.1 billion in low-cost, long-term low-interest loans and state guarantees to community housing agencies. Our evaluation of this program managed the complexity of complementary social housing funding and financing programs in our analysis.
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Expanding Victoria’s Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) System

  • Client: Victorian Department of Health
SafeScript is the Victorian Government’s RTPM system. It enables prescribing registered medical practitioners, nurse practitioners and dispensing pharmacists to access accurate and up-to-date information regarding a patient’s medication history with respect to specific high-risk medicines in real time.
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The economic benefits of a circular economy in Auckland

  • Client: Sustainable Business Network
This report provides a view on the potential economic benefits of a more circular economy for Auckland. It has been commissioned by the Sustainable Business Network to inform its report on the circular economy opportunity for Auckland.
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The emissions footprint of broadband in New Zealand

  • Client: Chorus
This paper provides a first assessment of the emissions footprint of the current New Zealand fibre network, with a focus on internet provision to households and small to medium-sized businesses.
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Making New Zealand safer: regulating the engineering profession

  • Client: Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment
Sapere prepared a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to support MBIE’s proposal for an occupational regulatory regime for engineers.
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Infrastructure consenting for climate targets

  • Client: Te Waihanga / New Zealand Infrastructure Commission
This research models the impact on New Zealand’s emissions reduction targets if the current resource consenting system continues to delay decisions on infrastructure project consenting.
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Māori Primary Health Care

  • Client: Wai 2575 Claimants
Sapere were asked by the claimants to respond to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that a methodology be developed to measure the degree of underfunding of Māori PHOs and providers.
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Sizing of the backyard and micro-commercial egg production in Australia

  • Client: Australian Eggs
Which came first the chicken or the egg? We don’t have the answer to that, but we do know the size of backyard and micro-commercial egg production in Australia.
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