Mary Holm: Mistake to judge over the short term
I joined KiwiSaver the day it started. I am in the Kiwi Wealth balanced fund. I am a 67-year-old retired widow with no other income apart from NZ Superannuation.
I joined KiwiSaver the day it started. I am in the Kiwi Wealth balanced fund. I am a 67-year-old retired widow with no other income apart from NZ Superannuation.
Authorities are giving up the fight to put former property developer Jamie Peters back into bankruptcy and will withdraw their case against him from the Court of Appeal.
Homeowners are often portrayed as millionaires-in-waiting, but investing in property is not easy, writes Andrew Bruce.
David Chaplin's tongue-in-cheek blog post about the current political scandal.
The 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.
Ngati Whatua Orakei Whai Rawa has paid slightly under $70 million for a new Auckland office block with a council valuation of $35.5 million
An electronic, auction-based mechanism will replace a ritualised negotiation for silver pricing that's been in place for 117 years.
Currently one of the most “volatile” sectors on the stockmarket is that plague of technology stocks which floated in the last year or so.
A wealthy Hong Kong family have bought three office towers in Auckland's CBD for $65.5 million in one of the biggest property deals of the year.
A 79-year-old accountant being chased for a $367 million tax debt has asked the High Court for orders to prevent Inland Revenue bankrupting him.
Eighteen American businesses hold 36 per cent of corporate US wealth and they are piling up cash holdings overseas because of discouraging US tax laws.
A look at some of the US firms that have incorporated overseas in moves that some say is robbing the US of billions of dollars in tax revenue.
The upshot of Novopay is this: we spent $110m to get a lemon from an Australian company - which is now being touted as a $15m 'asset', writes Dita De Boni.
More than six decades after it achieved independence, India may be on the verge of a single goods and services tax, after India's PM warmed to the idea.
According to Morningstar the tax environment for New Zealand managed funds - including KiwiSaver - is relatively benign.
While money isn't everything, it sure can help. These are the top 10 highest earning jobs in New Zealand.
New data from FundSource suggests KiwiSaver default members may be starting to make more risk-appropriate choices.
KiwiSaver members now have on average more than $9300 saved in their accounts but some providers have attracted much bigger savers into their scheme.
What happens after you're eligible to dip into your KiwiSaver account?
Andrew Bruce says property investment is now at a tax disadvantage when compared to other investment classes such as companies.
Q: I was listening to the radio and I heard a Labour MP say that under Labour not only would KiwiSaver be compulsory but a capital gains tax would apply to it.
In a video interview on nzherald.co.nz, Eaqub said capital gains tax on investment property was often discussed in New Zealand as if it didn't exist - but it already does.