COMMENT: Exclusion and engagement two ways to ensure holdings reflect values.

COMMENT: Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Whenever we open our wallets these days there's always a gotcha.

COMMENT: Even index funds offer schemes that screen out the bad guys.

COMMENT: Aussies don't muck about when it comes to probing the cause of high-profile collapses - neither should we.

COMMENT: The problem is the US constitution and its separation of powers.

COMMENT: Film Commission chief Dave Gibson is half-way through what he has insisted was a single five-year term.

COMMENT: Apple has again showed why it matters to be able to control everything in smartphone design, writes Juha Saarinen.

COMMENT: "There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about."

COMMENT: Five takeaways from the two-day G20 summit from Theresa May's modesty to Jack Ma's chutzpah.

COMMENT: Don't let this week go by without hanging some targets for the short and long terms.

COMMENT: For months, Liberal Party figures have been at loggerheads with the country's main business lobby group, the Business Council of Australia.

COMMENT: It's Money Week - time to face the fear and think about retirement.

COMMENT: John Key and Nick Smith have in recent weeks taken to trumpeting Auckland's current building boom as the biggest in New Zealand history.

COMMENT: There are a couple of issues here. One is your best move financially. The other is the "system".

COMMENT: Fees focus misses point, and legality of exposure to arms is very complex.

COMMENT: Juha Saarinen reviews the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

Most politicians have long taken the advice of the lobbyists and kept their noses out of regulating the media business, or giving

COMMENT: The old days of rising incomes have become just a memory for many, new study shows.

COMMENT: Can the experience that a retail investor has with the finance sector reasonably be described as having their interests put first?

Find a marketing or sales strategy that is already working well and then put it into action in your own business.

COMMENT: Vodafone's working hard to avoid being in a "dumb pipe" situation, writes Juha Saarinen.

COMMENT: Central banks can't pick markets any more than they can pick pop hits, Liam Dann writes.

COMMENT: Next week sees the return of Money Week, which runs 5-11 September. How well can you see your future?

COMMENT: Alternative measures can be useful but accounting standards are key for investors to understand performance.

COMMENT: Which politicians will be brave and honest enough to propose taxes to stop land banking?

COMMENT: Janet Yellen defended the value and effectiveness of the current US monetary policy regime.

COMMENT: KiwiSaver may be the best option if you need help in resisting temptation.

COMMENT: Take risks, try to get on the property ladder - and mind your health.

COMMENT: The June year reporting season, which winds down next week, has been a satisfactory one for investors.

COMMENT: An idea for Govt: Slap a foreign property buyers' tax on all transactions made in Auckland.