Although renting may be better financially, when you bring common behaviour into the mix the advantage evaporates.

Which is cheaper, going to New World or Pak'nSave? The answer is not that simple.

A KiwiSaver watchdog has called for providers to lower their fees because of the early success of the retirement savings scheme.

A financial adviser surprised me once by asking if journalists had a code of ethics.

Credit cards have reduced our apparent ability to budget - but at a price.

At least $15 million is now believed to be missing from an Auckland financial advisory firm, according to investigators probing the collapse of the company.

The Minister of Commerce's decision to fast track KiwiSaver regulation is a "knee-jerk reaction", says a superannuation industry body.

Mum and dad investors could get a one stop shop agency to watch over investments under a new proposal being considered by the Government.

Hundreds of thousands of people may not know who is managing their KiwiSaver money because of problems with getting their addresses correct.

The state of trust in our finance sector is so bad we no longer can afford the luxury of waiting for disaster before regulators take action.