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

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

Legendary investor, Jack (aka John) Bogle has named exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as "the greatest marketing innovation of the 21st century".

A legal battle with former chief executive Alex Swney has led Heart of the City to pull funding from cash-strapped projects.

It surprises me how many people don't check every now and then what money is going into their KiwiSaver account, writes Mary Holm. Then again, some people don't even know who their provider is.

Economist Bob Baur says despite global tensions, the medium- to long-term outlook is positive, particularly for the developed world.

A reader writes: Can I withdraw my KiwiSaver funds for a first-home deposit if I want to buy half my partner's house?

Trinity tax-scheme architect Garry Muir has avoided bankruptcy after Bank of New Zealand was repaid and the action against him withdrawn.

The biggest surprise in the financial world last year has been the fact that longer term interest rates around the globe have moved sharply lower.

David Chaplin looks at Alan Greenspan's analysis of why no-one saw the GFC coming and why it wasn't his fault.

I am a New Zealand permanent resident, and I worked in New Zealand for almost six years but when I moved to Germany at that time I decided to take my private fund from AXA superannuation.

Chinese interests snap up two islands linked to the mainland for $41.5m. They plan to use them for a $130.6m six-star luxury resort and native reserve.

I remember inflation and deflation as among the easiest topics to comprehend in my economics class.

Parents could save hundreds of thousands of dollars by skipping houses in elite school zones and paying to privately educate their kids elsewhere instead.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund says it remains comfortable with its investment in the US oil and gas industry.

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

A rare big block of Bay of Plenty development land in Ohauti, about 10 minutes' drive south of the Tauranga CBD, is to be auctioned next month.

The ministry is reviewing how it recovers the costs of its biosecurity and food safety systems across the country's primary industries, after under-recovering for several years.

Money is the means by which you can escape the day-to-day pressure of being poor and struggling to survive.

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

A Q&A on buying a first home using KiwiSaver funds prompted me to share our daughter's experience.

Multimillionaire property investor Peter Cooper helped build the country's most important new heritage structure which opens tomorrow in the Bay of Islands.

The attack of the new clutter - otherwise known as Christmas - is on its way....

Inside Money blogger David Chaplin engages in a spot of Christmas satire for the silly season.