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

The man behind the $27m purchase of a Queenstown property development from Allied Farmers is declining to say how the deal is being financed amid speculation Allied may be helping him.

Share investing is a scary prospect for many.

Hallenstein Glasson's positive profit guidance has been music to the ears of investors.

Dozens of people who invested with an Auckland couple have been told they are unlikely to see their money again.

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.

Cabinet is bracing itself for the possibility that the SFO probe into Allan Hubbard will not find any evidence of complex fraud.

A Tauranga family with a hearing-impaired child is facing bankruptcy after going it alone in legal action over their failed Blue Chip investment.

Strategic Finance's trustee has appointed liquidators to the failed property lender - saying they will have wider powers than the receivers to scrutinise deals made.