Editorial: Listening to Winston Peters, you could be forgiven for thinking KiwiSaver was a seriously defective and widely reviled retirement savings vehicle.

Mum and dad investors have helped boost Australian shares to fresh five-and-a-half-year highs.

"Where," asks David Chaplin, "are the current batch of default providers going to send members for 'impartial financial advice' - off to rival banks, perhaps?"

All KiwiSaver investors should be able to find out how their fund is performing, what fees are being charged and where the money is being invested from today.

Winston Peters says changes to KiwiSaver which would stop it being "a pot of gold’’ for fund managers would be a bottom line in any post election coalition talks.

Shares in Xero rose 30c to $20 per share this morning - a day after the company raised $180 million in new capital.

The last remnant of Graeme Hart's rural empire - a cattle and pig farm at Maramarua - is up for sale.

Crowd-sourced funding is about to hit New Zealand in a serious way with the imminent arrival of United States website Kickstarter.

My mother is somehow convinced that paying off my mortgage in fortnightly repayments is better than monthly ones.

I had a brainwave recently and decided to cook up a batch of the traditional Chinese treats and fill them with various financial talking points for families.

KiwiSaver has turned out to have been a hugely successful financial product but there are some nasty changes lurking over the horizon, writes Brent Sheather.

Helen Twose looks at the Welcome Home Loan administered by Housing NZ which helps people with modest incomes get a home loan with a small deposit.

What lessons can traders learn from the America's Cup?

Q: We bought an investment property in Hamilton for $395,000 five years ago. We are having to top up the mortgage by $100/week as the rent doesn't cover mortgage payments.

Angel investment levels have bounced back this year, driven by an increase in follow-on funding into existing start-ups, according to figures released today.