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Inside Money: How to pay back record high global debt

Seven years down the track from the biggest debt-induced financial meltdown in history, the developed world is still loving leverage.

Gold fever fades as $4b erased from funds

Judging by the barometer of hedge-fund interest, there's less to get excited about in gold these days.

Inside Money: Most likely not appropriate - NZ Super's bungled loan

Chorus paces rise in sharemarket index

New Zealand shares rose yesterday, paced by Chorus as its first-half earnings met with market expectations. Xero rose to a four-month high as a seller exited the stock.

Rare Aussie plates set to sell for big money

Inside Money: $600m seeks reliable sleeping partners, must be good in bed

This week NZ share managers have 600 million more positive reasons to get out of bed.

Brent Sheather: You can trade your way over the fx cliff

Whilst fx trading is regularly promoted as a get rich quick scheme the reality is, surprise, quite different.

Mark Lister: Splitting investment helps cut the risks

Investing is never easy. When things look cheap it's usually because the economic climate looks dicey and there are many things that could go wrong, like in 2008.

Numbers rule court on day 7

Day seven in the murder trial of Mark Lundy - the Palmerston North sink salesman accused of killing his wife and daughter in appalling circumstances with an axe or something similar

Carmel Fisher: 2015 predictions

As economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said: "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

The year you get sorted

It's probably your biggest bill but too few people realise how much money they could save if they put some thought into managing their mortgage.

Mortgage wars: Banks prune rates

Banks have started cutting interest rates as the busy house-hunting season heats up. So how will it affect would-be home-buyers?

Carmel Fisher: Prepare for the worst and hope for the best when reviewing portfolio

It's the time of the year when newspapers and magazines are peppered with financial predictions, tempting us to take action and change our portfolios because, well, it's the New Year.

Peter Lyons: Why bubbles don't go down well at barbecues

Throughout modern history commercial banks have a nasty habit of periodically stuffing up the wider economy through bad lending, writes Peter Lyons.

AMP outsources NZ equities - Elliffe gone

Money and Me: Diane Maxwell

When my daughter was little and I was a single parent I scaled back my work and paid myself in time not money.

Carmel Fisher: Dump emotion to win the unwinnable

If investors could be bothered wading through academic research of recent decades on markets and investor behaviour, they'd probably feel like giving investing a wide berth.

Money and me: Kirk Hope

Careful investment means you and your family can have a wider range of choices in the way that you live your life.