25 Oct 2025

Liam Dann on Labour's Future Fund

From Saturday Morning, 7:45 am on 25 October 2025
Liam Dann

Liam Dann Photo: Eleanor Dann

Labour's Future Fund was the first major policy announcement from the opposition in the long lead up to next year's election. 

The wealth fund - set up to invest in New Zealand infrastructure projects and businesses - would draw on an initial government capital injection of $200 million and dividends from state-owned assets. 

It faced accusations of being copied off New Zealand First while others - like Waikato-Tainui's Tuku Morgan - believe it will be a much-needed boost.

Herald Business Editor, Liam Dann talks to Guyon about the policy and what it says about the party's broader economic strategy.

A row of yellow hard hats sit in a workplace.

Labour's proposed Future Fund would invest more heavily in New Zealand companies and projects than the Super Fund currently does. Photo: UnSplash/ Silvia Brazzoduro