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Christmas meal fare flying into trundlers

Diana Clement: First home buyers are making their mark

Business coach jailed for fraud

Self-described business coach Shane Wenzel has been sent to jail for three years for mortgage fraud.

Inside Money: Funds up as flow-on effect builds momentum

Carparks set to tax employers

Draft legislation aimed at introducing fringe benefit taxes on staff carparks is broader than expected and contains some "nasty fish hooks to look out for".

Brent Sheather: What is suitable advice really?

Inside Money: In the PITs: Why the dollar could go down

It's difficult to react dispassionately to the daily news on the dollar's whereabouts. Up, no matter how you say it, always sounds better than down, writes David Chaplin.

Helen Twose: Regulation makes KiwiSaver schemes safer

I've been reading with horror about the millions lost by investors in Ross Asset Management, a seemingly solid and well-established firm.

Ross investors face 'terrible legal battle'

If it is determined that David Ross was running a Ponzi scheme, investors face a major legal fight to recover their funds, says investor spokesman Bruce Tichbon.

Helen Twose: Investment buys not main focus

Thinking of using KiwiSaver's first-home subsidy for an investment property?

Liam Dann: Odds are you don't know the risks

TPP risks can be mitigated - expert

What it's really like in the auction room

NZ will 'struggle' for Facebook taxes

New Zealand is going to find it increasingly difficult to tax multinational companies like Google and Facebook, says a specialist tax consultant.

Facebook NZ's $14k tax bill

Facebook's "tiny" and "barely believable" tax bill this year makes a mockery of New Zealand's tax loopholes for multinationals, says the Labour Party.

Tower annual profit leaps 67pc

Tower has posted a 67 per cent jump in full-year profit and said it will return $120 million to shareholders.