In the online world a new adage that applies - If you pay for something, it’s the product. But if it’s free, you are the product.

Get in touch with your lenderBanks will be more willing to help if they are warned trouble may be ahead, rather than getting a panicked phone call when the first repayment is missed.

As a society, how did we allow residential property to become just another investment asset class?

All I want for Christmas is an Ebola emergency kit. That's not because I think I'm at risk of catching the disease.

Auckland Council is deeply divided on how to implement big rates rises next year, after Mayor Len Brown backed down on introducing rates rises of up to 40 per cent.

The only problem with this technically-excellent, thoroughly-executed, thankfully-brief statistical analysis of KiwiSaver is its uselessness.

The Inland Revenue Department is taking aim at the use of New Zealand trusts by foreigners to shield their income and assets from tax in their own countries following pressure from its overseas....

FOFA is a serious law, introduced by the previous Labor government after a series of scandals hit Australia's financial planning industry.

Herald columnist Diana Clement looks at how to get the best out of the Christmas shopping spend.

The latest Briefing to the Incoming Minister from the Earthquake Commission is a revealing document.

Over the next two years the government and its agents will be reviewing the Financial Advisors Act 2008 (FAA).

A Tauranga law firm will have to pay $150,000 more to retirees who lost money in Blue Chip, a Court of Appeal ruling has found.

Changes to the country's payment system have been profound and New Zealand moves closer to a cashless society, says the Reserve Bank.

As a long term landlord Andrew Bruce seeks long term tenancies because he takes a long term view of his investment properties.

Pacific Investment Management Co. paid its former Chief Investment Officer Bill Gross a bonus of about $290 million in 2013.

I want to see a change of attitude in the press towards ageing Kiwis. We are tagged the greedy generation.

No NZ-based funds make the Towers Watson 500 largest asset managers but Fisher Funds, with about US$4.5b under management is close.

A just-released study found Polish angels expected returns of 34 per cent on their investments - the highest of all.

A 157 per cent Auckland Council rates rise and a 140 per cent operating costs increase have been blamed for the axing of guaranteed rental returns on a city apartment block.

As we all build our own financial houses and get them in order, they need to be resilient when things happen.

Since the Financial Markets Conduct Act made crowdfunding investment possible, people can now buy shares in companies that should aim to eventually pay dividends.

Tech giants like Apple keep looking for overseas tax loopholes as their foreign cash has piled up to almost absurd levels.

NZ Super has taken direct control of the almost $260m in local equities formerly managed on its behalf by AMP Capital.

How to put together a NZ fixed interest portfolio by focusing on the investment strategies typically employed by large institutional investors.

I am changing jobs and my new employer is exempt from automatically signing up employees to KiwiSaver as they have their own super scheme, while also offering KiwiSaver.

One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I, Britain plans to repay some of the debt issued to help finance the conflict.

New Zealand supermarket chain Countdown is adding insurance services as it seeks to widen the offering to its 2.7 million weekly customers.