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Inside Money: Super smart deal aims to activate NZ passive investors
The NZX-owned KiwiSaver scheme, Smartkiwi, will be closed early next year following the stock exchange's purchase of Superlife.
Inside Money: KiwiSaver condemned
The only problem with this technically-excellent, thoroughly-executed, thankfully-brief statistical analysis of KiwiSaver is its uselessness.
KiwiSaver: It pays to look at contract
A reader writes: If my employer includes its contribution as part of a total remuneration package, what happens to the contribution if one opts out of KiwiSaver?
'Holiday' can get around the super-scheme
I am changing jobs and my new employer is exempt from automatically signing up employees to KiwiSaver as they have their own super scheme, while also offering KiwiSaver.
KiwiSaver: Single lump sum won't earn house subsidy
So what happens if you want to dump a single amount into your KiwiSaver account when you want to buy your first home? Helen Twose investigates.
KiwiSaver: Willing and able to contribute from overseas
Can I still contribute towards KiwiSaver and send money into my KiwiSaver account if I move overseas?
Mary Holm: Markets knowhow great gift for teen
Our son has his 17th birthday in three weeks' time.
Inside Money: Zombie KiwiSaver schemes to end life in limbo
After negotiations with the FMA, both Kiwibank and ASB are finally set to kill their respective zombie KiwiSaver schemes.
KiwiSaver: Land part of deal for first-home buyers
KiwiSaver withdrawals to help with buying a first home are handled by the KiwiSaver providers so I talked to Joe Bishop, head of retail and marketing at Gareth Morgan Investments, about your options.
Inside Money: Regulator puts banks on KiwiSaver switch watch
The FMA has wagged its finger at banks for up-selling KiwiSaver switches without fully informing customers of the consequences.
Waimahia Inlet spells new homes hope
On September 19, the first buyers of a new mass-scale affordable special housing area at South Auckland's Waimahia Inlet, on the edge of the Manukau Harbour, are due to move in.
KiwiSaver: Regular payments needed for subsidy
Can you please clarify the rules around "regular" contributions toward KiwiSaver and the impact this has on the deposit subsidy.
KiwiSaver: Scheme can't be used in tax return
KiwiSaver investment income is effectively quarantined from other gains or losses and the tax paid is final.
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.
Mary Holm: Mistake to judge over the short term
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.
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.
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.
Inside Money: How to save tax - a debate of two halves
According to Morningstar the tax environment for New Zealand managed funds - including KiwiSaver - is relatively benign.
Inside Money: NZX digs up smarter data; pushes out new passive fund
New data from FundSource suggests KiwiSaver default members may be starting to make more risk-appropriate choices.
KiwiSaver average tops $9300
KiwiSaver members now have on average more than $9300 saved in their accounts but some providers have attracted much bigger savers into their scheme.
KiwiSaver: What to do with your savings after 65
What happens after you're eligible to dip into your KiwiSaver account?
Mary Holm: Labour's tax talk nothing to fear
Q: I was listening to the radio and I heard a Labour MP say that under Labour not only would KiwiSaver be compulsory but a capital gains tax would apply to it.