Even though KiwiSaver is touted as a workplace savings scheme you don't need to be in work to reap some of the benefits, writes Helen Twose.

When setting goals and planning for the future seem all too hard, it’s time to carve them down into manageable chunks.

Neighbours have failed to stop Ryman Healthcare getting consent for a $100 million-plus village between Greenlane and One Tree Hill.

There are times when we just really don’t want to know how our finances are tracking towards retirement.

KiwiSaver is all about retirement savings but it recognises that for many people a comfortable retirement includes owning their own home.

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

An excellent communicator albeit with a quietly confident manner, highly successful but without any arrogance, an affinity with those moving into quiet retirement but with a love of hard-rocking Shihad - Ryman Healthcare boss Simon Challies.

A dramatic rise in the number of rest-home caregivers working on temporary visas is raising concerns about disruption to the lives of vulnerable rest-home residents.

Women are feeling a lot less confident about reaching their savings goals than men, an ANZ retirement survey has found.

Only 20 per cent of people near retirement surveyed passed a quiz about the basics of retirement planning.

A reader writes: I intend to settle a cash sum on each of my grandchildren on my demise. What fish hooks exist if I place a lump sum in a KiwiSaver account for each?

A neighbour is opposing a new Auckland Ryman Healthcare village, saying views will be blocked and roads jammed with traffic when hundreds of elderly people move in.

A large proportion of New Zealand business owners have no plan for exiting their operations.

It's good news if you're in your 30s but not so good if you're over 50 according to earnings data from Statistics New Zealand.

So fans of the actor's witty puns, intellectual musings and calls to humanitarian arms will be disappointed to learn that he's decided to temporarily quit the network.

On Tuesday, right on my 63rd birthday, a press release from the retirement policy and research centre at the University of Auckland announced that New Zealand now has one of the developed world's....

Gosh, that was a baptism by fire. I remember the day, in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash, when the Brierley share price dropped below $2 - down from more than $5 just a few weeks before.

The taxman has invested millions and decades trying to shut down schemes of its 80-year-old nemesis.

It's amazing to think that after all the years of talking, reporting and issuing of statements, New Zealand stands completely unprepared for its own 'retirement'.

With people living longer one of the biggest worries for soon-to-be-retired folks is how to make their savings stretch out for the long-haul.

Auckland has the nation's highest rate of homeowners still paying off their mortgages and the lowest proportion who own their home mortgage-free.

Most low-wage workers battle big corporations, but home health-care workers deal with a different beast: the state, which ultimately pays their wages.

If an investment approach is suitable for other beneficiaries, education and healthcare it should also be applied to government superannuation, writes Peter Lyons.