Why it pays to remember the new NZ Super rate.

John Key's decision to weigh in on the debate about taxing of foreign online purchases seemed to come out of left field last week.

German retailing giant Aldi has brought a new supermarket experience to Australian shoppers.

Bernard Hickey writes: John Key grappled this week with one of the toughest tasks any modern government has to deal with - how to tax the new economy.

The December quarter 2014 gross domestic product statistics, released this week, show the economy was a top performer last year.

The main negative of KiwiSaver for kids is that the money is tied up until they buy a first home or retire, writes Mary Holm.

Are zombies eating your bank interest? Zombie accounts are the ones that pay low interest rates - sometimes as low as zero.

It remains to be seen how, if at all, Fonterra will communicate the performance of its Chinese infant formula investment to farmers and unit holders in its NZX-listed shareholders' fund.

New Zealand has zero affordable housing markets, according to the '11th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey'.

Volunteers have set up a Ushahidi website to gather and coordinate offers of telecoms equipment for Vanuatu.

The lesson seems to be, today more than ever, when considering university education: choose carefully if employment is your objective.

If we take the time to be present in the moment, we expand time – we have more of it.

Could 2015 go down in history as the year of the boring sharemarket listings?

If my husband and I purchase land using our KiwiSaver funds, can someone else build the house for us to live in or does the title of the house need to be in our names?

Auckland's rapidly expanding economy has prompted the city's biggest private developer to announce $220 million of new work.

We get hooked on less-important costs – they loom larger in our minds than they really should.

Almost no one outside his inner circle knows what David Teoh looks like.

This time, with the threat made by some nasty individual to poison baby formula with 1080, it certainly seems like Government and industry efforts have been much better co-ordinated.

Selling up to rent could leave you high and dry if prices firm and you want to get back into the market, writes Mary Holm.

Collectibles are subject to the laws of supply and demand. They can provide some protection from inflation, but aren't the best hedge around, writes Diana Clement.

Octogenarian billionaire investor says ambitions have no finish line, writes Brian Gaynor.

CaseLoad's coverage of the stellar career of a dashing celebrity judge was graciously acknowledged recently.

Leading telecommunications company Spark actively considered becoming the cornerstone sponsor of the new Paul Henry breakfast show, but has pulled out, writes John Drinnan.

As people turned out to march against the Trans-Pacific Partnership last weekend, one of the issues exercising them was "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS).

If banks wanted to adopt a theme song for KiwiSaver it would have to be the song from Bonanza.

Everything is fine in New Zealand is it not? The country has experienced a great few years. We have ridden the commodity boom and other countries' misfortunes.