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Investment project to create landlords
A specialist apartment real estate agency boss is starting up a new business to encourage people to become landlords by finding, buying and managing Auckland residential properties.

Obama condemns overseas tax deals
President Obama's denunciation of overseas mergers that lower US companies' taxes is throwing cold water on potential deals.

Brent Sheather: Buy the rumour, sell the fact
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".

Inside Money: National messes KiwiSaver house rules
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.

Dotcom dosh linked to immigrant
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.

Barry Ritholtz: Time, not timing, key to investing success
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.

Tamsyn Parker: How to "Labour-proof" your portfolio
What should you do to protect your investments should there be a change in government and a switch to Labour?

All credit for paying off debt
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.

Assignee drops Peters bankruptcy bid
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.

Bruce: Property investment is not easy
Homeowners are often portrayed as millionaires-in-waiting, but investing in property is not easy, writes Andrew Bruce.

Inside Money: Slater, Collins, Hager and Dotcom cleared in redaction cover-up
David Chaplin's tongue-in-cheek blog post about the current political scandal.

Inside Money: Why accountants need more culture and less court-time
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.

Iwi arm pays well over CV for block
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

Silver price goes electronic
An electronic, auction-based mechanism will replace a ritualised negotiation for silver pricing that's been in place for 117 years.

Mary Holm: Labour's capital gains tax plan explained
I find it remarkable that Labour's proposed capital gains tax has generated so little debate.

Brent Sheather: When tech stocks attack
Currently one of the most “volatile” sectors on the stockmarket is that plague of technology stocks which floated in the last year or so.

Buyers fork out $65.5m for three towers
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.

Tax debt tops $400m
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.

Corporate 1pc get wealthier as cash piles up
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.

Companies abandon US to dodge tax
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.

Diana Clement: Want to own some shares? Join the club
Anyone remember share clubs? They were hot in the 1980s, but were all but killed off by the 1987 stock market crash.

Mary Holm: Strong dollar driving car prices down
A few final words in regards to the discussion about purchasing a new vs used car. Your previous contributors have all made some valid points in regards to both options.

Opinion: Privatisation triumphs again
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.

India nears single market for first time
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.