I am disappointed that my KiwiSaver provider, ASB, has decided to close down its FirstChoice KiwiSaver Scheme, and in particular the Global Sustainability Fund.

Do you want to go to the grave knowing your hard-earned savings won't be wasted? Would you like to ensure little Holly or Olly can use the money only to buy a home?

Readers have contacted me to say The Pirate Bay torrent site is up and running again, after it went down following a raid.

A $6 billion drop in dairy farmers' incomes this season is a blow to the wider economy, no question, writes Brian Fallow. But it's not all bad.

A South African lawyer who suppressed his "out of control" history has been deemed fit and proper to be a lawyer in NZ.

Is this new raid the last final curtain for The Pirate Bay, which is now run by unknown people?

The NZX-owned KiwiSaver scheme, Smartkiwi, will be closed early next year following the stock exchange's purchase of Superlife.

Borrowing against your equity is some of the cheapest money out there (as opposed to credit cards), writes Tom Hartmann. But here are the pitfalls.

How many accountants will soon be out of a job because they are not tech-oriented, or open to redesigning their business?

Australian retail billionaire Solomon Lew has declared war on his Government's failure to charge GST for overseas goods bought online.

Cloud computing is built on data centres which are sprouting out of the ground like weeds at the moment around the world.

The world is going digital, but MediaWorks and NZME. are still spending millions of dollars on ye olde radio frequencies.

Martin Aircraft Company has extended its IPO for two weeks as the firm negotiates with a potential investor that could become a cornerstone shareholder.

They say what goes around comes around, and so it is for lawyer Boon Gunn Hong whose excessive suspension has been quashed on appeal.

A central component in the reform of the financial planning industry is education but this notion comes with problems.

Labour Leader Andrew Little has staked out valuable new territory with his announcement of a Future Work Commission.

One of the big trends today is for businesses to use mainly digital technology to communicate with customers and potential customers.

How did we react to the erosion of democratic rights by attack bloggers and the rise of executive power? Mostly with a collective shrug, writes Chris Barton.

A reader writes: I intend to settle a cash sum on each of my grandchildren on my demise. What fish hooks exist if I place a lump sum in a KiwiSaver account for each?

On his 60th birthday Woody Allen is supposed to have joked that "practically a third of my life is over". Optimistic maybe, but illustrative - as Patrick Nolan explains.

In the online world a new adage that applies - If you pay for something, it’s the product. But if it’s free, you are the product.

Leverage in trading is a good tool for those who use it properly. It is even better than good, it can be great.

The world is in the grip of a new oil shock. The shock is that prices are collapsing. Liam Dann explains what it means for the NZ economy.

Expectation is a powerful thing. It's the reason 45,000 sections in Auckland are sitting there ready to go, with all the connections to water, power and roads - but no houses.