A group of Auckland college students, charged with managing a quarter million dollar investment portfolio are about to make their second big donation to charity.

Two independent observers will keep tabs on Perpetual Trust's cash management and mortgage funds ahead of a substantial hearing early next month.

Pyne Gould Corp subsidiary Perpetual Trust said it had placed its Mortgage Fund into moratorium.

The receivers for failed lender Lombard Finance & Investments is likely to make a claim against third parties as they seek to claw back funds for jilted investors, according to their latest report.

After narrowly surviving a vote at GPG's annual meeting, Sir Ron Brierley has lambasted the institutional shareholders who tried to oust him.

Sir Ron Brierley has survived a New Zealand Shareholders Association campaign to oust him from the board of the Guinness Peat Group.

Small investors will find the line long and hurdles high to get even a handful of Facebook shares.

The NZ Shareholders Association said it will vote against the re-election of Sir Ron Brierley to the board of Guiness Peat Group.

It wasn't just flimsy finance companies that were flummoxed by our recent financial misfortunes.

Sharesies CEOs Leighton, Sonya & Brooke Roberts speak about the company and its purpose this year. Video / Sharesies

Money seems to be more loyal to people than brands, as shown by the current shakeup in the funds mangement industry.