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<i>Inside Money :</i> Lifestyle change for adviser body
While the deal is pitched as a "professional development partnership" this is really a good, old-fashioned sponsorship arrangement: the IFA needs money; NZ Funds needs financial advisers to feed it clients.

<i>Inside Money:</i> Big and bigger: what does it mean for the little people?
What happens to New Zealander when AMP buys up the local assets of AXA?

Petricevic's legal aid bid 'a joke'
Former finance company boss Rod Petricevic was yesterday denied taxpayer legal aid, but his fraud case has been postponed to give his lawyer time to decide whether to appeal.

Kiwibank 'kick starts' 2011 with mortgage rate cut
In the first mortgage rate cut of 2011, Kiwibank has dropped its one-year mortgage rate to 6.15 per cent from 6.45 per cent per annum.

UK ponzi scheme took in £14m savings from 350 victims
To his clients, Terry Freeman had all the trappings of a multimillionaire City of London trader.

Property values keep falling: QV
Property values continued to fall during December, but the rate of decline has slowed, indicating that values are beginning to stabilise.

Best bet on takeover news is that it is wrong
The surest way to profit from takeover speculation in the stock market is to bet it's wrong.

Rogue exec walks free as Millennium settles China rorts
A rogue exec working for a Chinese company part owned by the Millennium & Copthorne Hotels has escaped prosecution for unauthorised property sales which appear likely to leave the NZX-listed hotelier out of pocket.

<i>Shane Solly:</i> Yield junkies need to face reality
New Zealanders don't ask for enough return on some investments and ask for too much on others.

Move to make online buyers pay GST
The Retail Assn in Australia wants GST tacked on to online sales.

The top 10 money moans of 2010
Inside Money reviews the year almost gone, highlighting the 10 most commented-on blogs of 2010.