There is a simple creative thinking system that you might like to use to increase your sales fast. It's called the 20 idea method.

I am changing jobs and my new employer is exempt from automatically signing up employees to KiwiSaver as they have their own super scheme, while also offering KiwiSaver.

With more than 50 years' trading under his belt, US trading legend Larry Pesavento has learned a few things about the markets.

Digital disruption was the hot topic at the Institute of Finance Professionals (INFINZ) conference last week, writes Liam Dann.

Auckland Council's report on its transport future is a stark reminder about how the low-inflation landscape is changing everything, writes Bernard Hickey.

Getting a mortgage is much harder than it was before the global financial crisis. No longer will banks lend willy-nilly.

Australian investors have become excited about health insurance. The enthusiasm is over the privatisation of Medibank Private, Australia's largest health insurer.

Software developer Orion Health's initial public offer prospectus, which was registered on Tuesday, contains a lot of impressive numbers.

Where has inflation gone and does it have a return ticket? Little wonder the Reserve Bank has just left interest rates on hold and the markets expect no change in the official cash rate for another year or so.

Tech is part of everyone's life in Japan, but doesn't appear to have supplanted their livelihood, even for menial tasks.

With people living longer one of the biggest worries for soon-to-be-retired folks is how to make their savings stretch out for the long-haul.

Is inflation dead? The annual rate has fallen to 1 per cent, dangerously close to dropping outside the Reserve Bank's target band.

Our son will be studying in Australia for the next few years and will need to borrow money from us for fees, living expenses and so on.

It is a sign that the times, they are a-changin' when leading central bankers, of all people, are publicly deploring prevailing levels of, and trends in, inequality.

Struck-off Auckland ex-lawyer Barry Hart is back in the saddle, this time as a "lay advocate" representing banned jockey David Walker.

Outsourcing of Maori programming will make Television New Zealand less engaged in the Maori world - but that might suit the broadcaster.

At Desle Sullivan's pawn shop, the welcome is not exactly promising. Her dog, a 5-year-old bichon-silkie cross, practically throws himself at the glass of the front door, which is luckily closed, even though it's opening time.

The sale of van Eyk Advice NZ should be concluded within days, according to the first report to creditors from the administrator of its Australian parent.

Can I still contribute towards KiwiSaver and send money into my KiwiSaver account if I move overseas?

Whether it is John Key pulling the strings or not, there are smart minds at work in the NZ currency market, writes Nick Mcdonald.

Does anyone not know someone who struggles with money and then turns around and pulls out the latest iPhone 6?

It's a dilemma Auckland financial adviser Hannah McQueen comes across all the time.