Key things to consider when choosing where to save include risks, time to retirement, disclosure and fees.

A financier has sold 65 Quay Park apartments and eight shops and offices on Maori land to a developer in a multimillion-dollar deal.

The ground floor of the first block of Auckland apartments to rise since the global financial crisis is due to be poured on Saturday.

Hundreds of thousands of Kiwis are up for a tax king hit. And many of them have no idea it's coming.

Simply withdrawing savings in regular amounts carries the risk that the money might run out before you do.

British expats in New Zealand have been warned to transfer their pensions to New Zealand soon to avoid losing big chunks of their savings to the taxman.

Additional Christmas outlay will leave more than half the population feeling financial stress over the holiday period, according to a MasterCard survey.

KiwiSaver is described on the www.kiwisaver.govt.nz website as a "voluntary, work-based savings initiative".

"I cannot agree with your comparison two weeks ago of the 10-year return on $100,000 for shares versus property."

You can take away her smooth, glowing skin, her naivety and her carefree chuckle, but you can never completely remove the little girl from the woman.

The difference between passive, relative and absolute funds...

Wouldn't you love to manage your own retirement funds? Instead of handing them over to a KiwiSaver provide, you research and buy the assets, which could include individual equities and even rental properties.

Six years on, the majority of KiwiSaver members remain in the default conservative funds where they were automatically placed on first joining the scheme, writes Blair Turnbull.

I read your interesting recent article on the Welcome Home Loan and believe it might apply to our returning daughter