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Draft code for financial advisers rejected

<i>Bernard Hickey</i>: The problem with compulsory KiwiSaver

What if money saved compulsorily is simply shipped offshore to be invested in foreign companies and assets?

Registrar won't appeal Feltex ruling

Success will be more investment outside property - Botherway

The man overseeing the creation of a new integrated financial markets regulator hopes, it will help shift savings tied up in housing somewhere else.

Pyne Gould lifts profit forecast

One drink can end your cover

The great credit card swindle

New Zealanders are paying about $10 million a month more in interest on their credit cards than they should be.

Greenstone in $100m bond issue

Taxpayer bill for Allied Nationwide could be highest ever

If Allied Nationwide Finance is unable to resolve its Trust Deed stand-off and Guardian Trust pulls the plug, the taxpayer could face a bill exceeding that for all the six Crown-guaranteed finance companies to have failed so far.

Fed details US debt shopping plan

The Federal Reserve has voted to buy US Govt debt in a fresh bid to spur the world's biggest economy.

Don't sell yet, says Farming Systems

Allied puts cash raising on hold

Allied in dispute over breach

<i>Craig McIvor</i>: Taking the time to make a plan is well worth the effort

Managers need to look at the way ahead, rather than just responding to everyday challenges.

Hardship as money dries up

<i>Liam Dann</i>: Chinese Government prepares for property armageddon