Investors in failed Strategic Finance could get as little as 12 cents in the dollar after bids for the firm's loan book fell short of expectations.

Shareholders are upset...

A real estate agent has been sentenced to home detention for lying to a client about the sale of his house.

Financial confidence levels have dropped back to 2009 levels, says a new survey.

This is almost certainly the last annual report from the Government Actuary on matters pertaining to KiwiSaver - or anything else - that will be published.

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders are finding they can't pay their bills and going into arrears, then finding their credit record was affected, credit bureau Veda Advantage says.

South Canterbury Finance chief executive Sandy Maier became a director of Ngai Tahu Holdings the day after Allan Hubbard's finance company was placed in receivership.

REINZ is blaming spring weather, the Canterbury quake and uncertainty over the increase in GST and tax cuts for a new low in house sales.

Hundreds of thousands of households have been charged the higher rate of GST for goods supplied before the GST rise took place.

A fees fight has broken out between the Govt's real estate agent organisation and the Real Estate Institute.

Lyn Provost is to review the Crown's Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme which ended earlier this week having paid out $1.85bn.