OpinionHelen TwoseKiwiSaver: Employer contribution confusionFor a lot of people the contribution an employer pays towards your KiwiSaver - currently 3 per cent - is in addition to your wages, but this isn't always the case.13 Oct 04:00 PM
Personal FinanceConsumer Watch: Diamonds are foreverIf you have a few thousand dollars to invest you've probably considered all the usual options: shares, bonds, maybe property.11 Oct 04:00 PM
EmploymentExecutive Success: Xero's Craig WalkerAs Xero's CTO, Craig Walker is constantly working in the future, translating boss Rod Drury's vision for the business into hard technical reality.10 Oct 01:31 AM
OpinionInside Money: Global think-tank explains why debt is a downerAccording to a report, post GFC - a crisis ultimately blamed on excessive leverage - the world hasn't really changed, debt-wise.08 Oct 08:30 PM
OpinionMark Lister: Nervous types, buckle upSharper day-to-day movements will be unnerving for some investors.06 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionLiam DannLiam Dann: Falling kiwi to attract foreign buyersLiam Dann writes: Get ready for an influx of bargain-hunting foreign investors, because as the dollar drops, NZ assets are effectively going on special.05 Oct 04:00 PM
Aged careHow to give up the day jobWhat would it take to give up the day job and retire young? Financial adviser Simon Hassan says few people want to quit work at a young age these days.05 Oct 04:00 PM
OpinionInside Money: Blank pages and novel regulationsAt only 623 pages the unofficial almost-final draft of the Financial Markets Conduct Act regulations, is light reading by historical novel standards.01 Oct 08:30 PM
OpinionInside Money: Big bond man jumps shipOn Saturday NZ time, news of a significant resignation hit the airwaves. And David Cunliffe quit too.29 Sep 08:30 PM
OpinionInside Money: Baskets, buckets and other egg-based investment strategiesThe diversification message is clear enough: don't stick all your money in the same place, writes David Chaplin.24 Sep 10:29 PM
OpinionBrent Sheather: Fiduciary duty has gone out of fashionThe rules are that you must not rip your client off but if you tell them you are going to rip them off then that is fine.23 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionInside Money: Zombie KiwiSaver schemes to end life in limboAfter negotiations with the FMA, both Kiwibank and ASB are finally set to kill their respective zombie KiwiSaver schemes.22 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionInside Money: NZ Super treats country to full menu of disclosureThe revamped New Zealand Superannuation Fund website sets a new benchmark for full disclosure.17 Sep 09:30 PM
TechnologyCan tech firms replace human financial advisers?The financial tech trend is seeing younger investors turning to robo-adviser apps rather than traditional financial advisors.16 Sep 10:22 PM
OpinionInside Money: Regulator puts banks on KiwiSaver switch watchThe FMA has wagged its finger at banks for up-selling KiwiSaver switches without fully informing customers of the consequences.15 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionInside Money: Aussie funds' freeze hits homevan Eyk Advice NZ last week froze redemptions from seven products in its Blueprint series.10 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionBrent Sheather: Beware of bankers with good ideasA major issue with KiwiSaver, from the FSC's perspective, is that too many KiwiSavers are in low risk, low return conservative KiwiSaver funds.10 Sep 12:00 AM
OpinionInside Money: Why health insurers want to crack down on sick economic crimesHealth insurance fraud is a significant problem in New Zealand, adding perhaps $30 million to premiums annually.08 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionInside Money: Welcome to the post-cheque worldThe post-person delivered me two items of historical interest: a cheque and a credit card.03 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionInside Money: Talking money with The Cat in the HatDavid Chaplin's take on demystifying the vocabulary of finance.01 Sep 09:30 PM
InvestmentInvestment project to create landlordsA specialist apartment real estate agency boss is starting up a new business to encourage people to become landlords by finding, buying and managing Auckland residential properties.27 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionBrent Sheather: Buy the rumour, sell the factIn the past insider trading has been viewed as something of a victimless crime and the perpetrators have been afforded a degree of notoriety as "expert traders".27 Aug 01:17 AM
OpinionInside Money: National messes KiwiSaver house rulesFirst Labour, now National have unveiled plans to mess up KiwiSaver. It was always too much to hope that $20 billion-plus KiwiSaver system wouldn't be used for electioneering.25 Aug 09:30 PM
OpinionBarry Ritholtz: Time, not timing, key to investing successPeople who sit out for long stretches while waiting for the perfect entry point into the markets are giving up their single most precious asset: Time.25 Aug 02:30 AM
OpinionInside Money: Slater, Collins, Hager and Dotcom cleared in redaction cover-upDavid Chaplin's tongue-in-cheek blog post about the current political scandal.20 Aug 09:30 PM
OpinionInside Money: Why accountants need more culture and less court-timeThe niceties of best-practice double-entry accounting are probably lost on most of us, but Alan Hubbard would've understood what he wasn't complying with.18 Aug 09:30 PM
Personal FinanceSilver price goes electronicAn electronic, auction-based mechanism will replace a ritualised negotiation for silver pricing that's been in place for 117 years.17 Aug 02:30 AM
OpinionInside Money: Financial education at work - how to park your moneyAs David Chaplin writes, financial literacy - a major theme of the recent Workplace Savings NZ conference - is tough going.13 Aug 09:30 PM
OpinionBrent Sheather: When tech stocks attackCurrently one of the most “volatile” sectors on the stockmarket is that plague of technology stocks which floated in the last year or so.12 Aug 09:30 PM
