Can you please clarify the rules around "regular" contributions toward KiwiSaver and the impact this has on the deposit subsidy.

John Key has stepped up his attack on Labour's capital gains today tax, suggesting it will create a headache for grieving children who inherit their parents' house.

Tax is emerging as the battleground heading into the last two weeks before the election with National seizing on Labour leader David Cunliffe's stumble over the details of his flagship capital gains tax policy.

New Zealand's richest man has splashed out on a second luxury yacht - this one worth up to an estimated $78 million.

David Chaplin's take on demystifying the vocabulary of finance.

KiwiSaver investment income is effectively quarantined from other gains or losses and the tax paid is final.

In the past insider trading has been viewed as something of a victimless crime and the perpetrators have been afforded a degree of notoriety as "expert traders".

First Labour, now National have unveiled plans to mess up KiwiSaver. It was always too much to hope that $20 billion-plus KiwiSaver system wouldn't be used for electioneering.

The new-found wealth of entrepreneur Kim Dotcom came in part from an immigrant who has had at least $15m in assets seized in a money-laundering inquiry.

People who sit out for long stretches while waiting for the perfect entry point into the markets are giving up their single most precious asset: Time.

What should you do to protect your investments should there be a change in government and a switch to Labour?

Having bad credit can stand in the way of everything from borrowing from the bank to signing up with a power company for your home electricity.

How to buy shares is a mystery to many people. One such reader emailed asking for a back-to-basics article on the subject of DIY share investing.

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.

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.

I find it remarkable that Labour's proposed capital gains tax has generated so little debate.

Looking for a 21st-century investment that might (or might not) make you a small fortune? The virtual currency bitcoin is proving to be an answer for a small but growing number of Kiwis.

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.