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First KiwiSaver funds to be released
17,500 people can now access their KiwiSaver retirement nest eggs.
Gill South: Someone stop me before I spend again
Gill South consults a financial personal trainer to get her bank balance in better shape.
Diana Clement: Singles need financial safety nets too
Singles may not outnumber those in couples, but they're a big chunk of the population.
Council 'pioneering new ground'
Auckland Council chief Doug McKay is turning his thoughts to priorities for the second year of our first Super City.
Gareth Morgan's big tax idea
After motorbiking round the world and saving Happy Feet, economist Gareth Morgan wants to revolutionise our tax and welfare system. Andrew Laxon asks him why.
Diana Clement: When adult children need to help parents
Retired parents often help their cash-strapped offspring, but sometimes it's the other way around.
<i>Shelley Bridgeman:</i> Trusting types set alarm bells ringing
Women experiencing relationship difficulties could do a lot worse than confide their woes to me.
Interest rates could spark mortgage war
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) says a mortgage price war could break out among the country's major banks if interest rates rise as predicted over the next couple of years.
Deborah Hill Cone: Not rich, not poor, just nowhere
The last week has been such a shambles that I haven't had time to focus on anything other than my own dopey suburban matron problems.