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Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra targets velocity
Tim Groser's warning that the dairy sector would effectively have to guts it out during a period of low milk payouts was timely.
Why Global Mode challenge should fail
Technology columnist Chris Barton on why the Global Mode video access case should be thrown out of court.
Inside Money: Forgetting Muldoon, Bulletin updates capital ideas
Personal finance columnist David Chaplin on the Reserve Bank Bulletin.
Strict limits on access to KiwiSaver
I've recently separated from my wife and taken a mortgage on my home to pay a separation settlement. Can I use my KiwiSaver to pay into the home loan?
Five quick reminders to help you improve sales
Debbie Mayo-Smith offers five reminders that will help you to improve sales in your business.
Get Sorted: You deserve better
With money, it’s not about how much we make, or even how much we keep – it’s how much we grow that counts.
Time to thank mum for savings
Dear 20-somethings: You're quite right that nobody can make any promises about KiwiSaver in the future - or at least any promises that we can be confident a future government will keep.
Diana Clement: Annuities - cash till it's over
Many retirees are treating the KiwiSaver concept as a Lotto-style payout. Half of them are withdrawing their money and, of that number, most are blowing it on overseas holidays, cars, boats and consumer goods.
Liam Dann: English knows risk of low-grade growth
With commodity prices falling, New Zealand's strong economic run is at risk of faltering, writes Liam Dann. Lower export earnings should add urgency to this month's Budget for Finance Minister Bill English.
Christopher Niesche: Crowdfunders sniffing round banks' territory
Once the home away from home for down-at-heel Kiwis in Australia, these days billionaire James Packer, Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and a host of business leaders live or have lived in....
Caseload: Margaret Malcolm comes to lawyers' rescue
Jock Anderson on Margaret Malcolm helping lawyers deal with client complaints, a conference in Wellington and media reporting.
John Drinnan: What now for MediaWorks?
MediaWorks is now wholly owned by United States-based investment funds. Oaktree Capital was this week revealed as having increased its stake in MediaWorks - parent of TV3 - to 78 per cent. Oaktree....
Christopher Adams: Retailers face new challenges
The rise of online shopping, discount-obsessed consumers - when it comes to trading challenges listed retailers have their fair share. And there's a new one appearing on the horizon. Through a rule....
Brian Fallow: Time for joined-up thinking
More innovative and flexible, more holistic and integrated, more devolved and decentralised, more empowering to those in need. Such are the ways in which the Productivity Commission believes the....
In-timers: get ready first
Time management expert Robyn Pearce looks at the 'in-timers' and says it's important to get ready first.
Fran O'Sullivan: Will tax inspectors slow housing boom?
Will giving tax inspectors more resources to clamp down on profit-takers have any effect at all on the rampant Auckland housing boom?
Graham McGregor: Loyalty ladder marketing
The Loyalty Ladder is simple to learn, gives you an excellent road map to follow to increase your sales and profits and is made up of five steps.
KiwiSaver: House bus instead of house?
Instead of using KiwiSaver to buy your first house but be tied to one place, get a home on wheels and wake up to a new view every morning. But is this a possibility?
World's coolest economist hot on his numbers
Michael Pettis must be the world's coolest economist, Liam Dann writes.
Satellite dream a nightmare for investors
There's no denying the romance of space and perhaps this is why so many investors, customers and journalists got caught up in the dream of launching Australia's first privately owned satellite.
Cashing up from Auckland's boom
Selling in city and buying a cheaper property either north or south could mean plenty of money to invest, Mary Holm writes.
Big effort needed for MediaWorks bonuses
As viewing habits change, free-to-air TV looks likely to go the way of fax machines.
Time to do away with those rose-tinted glasses
Making a dodgy investment decision is easy. Frame it with the wrong facts and figures and it's bound to look good, Diana Clement writes.
Caseload: Society doles out the bikkies ...
CaseLoad's cosy mano a mano with distinguished Queen's Counsel and Auckland District Law Society (ADLS) president Brian Keene was jolly and long-overdue.
Brian Fallow: Property tax - the case is clear
The case for taxing the income of residential property investors is compelling.
Stock Takes: Wall of cash could hit NZ stocks
What would happen if Chinese retail investors got a sudden taste for New Zealand stocks? Until recently that question might have seemed a little preposterous.
Huka Lodge stoush comes to the boil
Two high-flying Alexes have been in the legal headlines in the past week: Huka Lodge owner Alex van Heeren and former Heart of the City boss Alex Swney.