Is it a good idea to take your money out of KiwiSaver when you reach 65? NZ Herald Money Editor Tamsyn Parker takes a look at the idea.

If I were to transfer my entire superannuation from Australia and at a later date I fell into financial hardship for health reasons, would I be able to withdraw my funds with KiwiSaver.

I have been emailing ASB KiwiSaver scheme and also other providers in Sydney, but only faced "no responses".

Armed with info on the fund's past returns, you can roughly compare them with term deposit returns, writes Mary Holm.

When it comes to KiwiSaver it's only possible to go with one provider, writes Tamsyn Parker. Fortunately this issue is balanced by a number of protective factors.

I have a KiwiSaver account, and am very happy with the gradual accumulation of savings.

As per its pre-budget propaganda, the Australian government has put its aging population on notice: retirement has been postponed.

Being asked by a friend of family member for money can be such an emotionally charged situation, writes Tamsyn Parker.

The FSC has reiterated its call for preferential KiwiSaver tax rates, describing the current regime as "most punitive tax regime for retirement saving that we have been able to find in the developed world".

The conventional investment thinking suggests tipping your money into growth assets like you have when there is a longer time frame.

National fired a broadside yesterday at Labour's plan to control interest rates with the help of compulsory KiwiSaver.

I am 21 years old and have about $4000 in my KiwiSaver. Because I've been contracting for the last couple of years I haven't been making any contributions.

NZ could have had a superannuation pot of gold worth $278b by next year had it kept a compulsory savings scheme set up in 1974, a financial industry body claims.

According to a list I compiled earlier, 11 KiwiSaver providers volunteered for default duty but only nine were approved by the government last week.

Q: We are a couple in our early 30s who own a rental house and live in a rental too. We have been paying as much as possible off our mortgage and now find ourselves in a position where we are making a profit (taxable) on the rental property.

I pay into a standard KiwiSaver scheme (3 per cent me, 2 per cent employer), the ASB KiwiSaver provider.

We're increasingly becoming a nation of renters with less than half of us now owning our own place, Census data shows.