Lowering the threshold is easy but tax take for small items may not to be worth it.

The main negative of KiwiSaver for kids is that the money is tied up until they buy a first home or retire, writes Mary Holm.

Are zombies eating your bank interest? Zombie accounts are the ones that pay low interest rates - sometimes as low as zero.

New Zealand has zero affordable housing markets, according to the '11th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey'.

The lesson seems to be, today more than ever, when considering university education: choose carefully if employment is your objective.

If my husband and I purchase land using our KiwiSaver funds, can someone else build the house for us to live in or does the title of the house need to be in our names?

Former high-flying multibillion-dollar developer Nigel McKenna is working on Auckland's big state house overhaul.

We get hooked on less-important costs – they loom larger in our minds than they really should.

Our son has special needs and will probably never be employed. He does, however, get a small pension from the government.

Eight of the biggest US technology companies added a combined $69 billion to their stockpiled offshore profits.

YOUI debited $592 from my Visa card even though I’d cancelled policy, writes Diana Clement.

The main losers in the techno-future are likely to be financial advisers, according to a new report.

The biggest investment most retail investors will make is in the residential property market but research is not extensive.

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has revealed plans to marshal its employees into a new dedicated KiwiSaver scheme.

Former Blue Chip boss Mark Bryers is seeking discharge from his bankruptcy in the High Court at Auckland today.

Think like an entrepreneur and find money strategies that work for you.

It can pay to shop around when tying up cash at a fixed rate, writes Money columnist Diana Clement.

Money columnist Mary Holm answers your questions on making and saving more money.

Irving Kahn, the Manhattan money manager who predicted the 1929 Wall St crash, has died aged 109.

The Taxpayers' Union's trenchant criticism of the NZ Superannuation Fund, over its poor investment in Portugal's Banco Espirito Santo, shows the dangers of viewing problems through ideological goggles.

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

Australia has tightened the rules on foreign purchases of agricultural land and has reduced the ownership screening threshold to A$15 million from A$252 million.

Mary Holm answers more questions this week.

"Negligent" advice from a Tauranga law firm did not cause a Blue Chip investor's $90,000 loss, the Supreme Court has unanimously decided.