New Zealand's market watchdog has for the first time stood in the shoes of out-of-pocket investors and exercised its right to sue for them.

New Zealand shares fell yesterday, paced by Meridian Energy, Contact Energy and Mighty River Power as some investors looked to crystallise recent gains.

New Zealand's market watchdog has declined only one financial adviser application since the collapse of David Ross' Ponzi scheme two years ago.

Ken Wikeley's bankruptcy is a massive fall from grace for one of the NZX's more colourful characters.

Privateer Holdings, that invests exclusively in marijuana businesses, is creating a line of Bob Marley-inspired cannabis products.

A Tauranga law firm will have to pay $150,000 more to retirees who lost money in Blue Chip, a Court of Appeal ruling has found.

The New Zealand share market pushed higher to a new record high at midday today. Here are four reasons why.

The New Zealand share market has continued its record-breaking run, with the NZX50 Index hitting its highest ever point.

Former Blue Chip boss Mark Bryers is likely to stay bankrupt until at least March next year with his High Court hearing delayed while the parties argue about evidence.

As Xero's CTO, Craig Walker is constantly working in the future, translating boss Rod Drury's vision for the business into hard technical reality.

Liam Dann writes: Get ready for an influx of bargain-hunting foreign investors, because as the dollar drops, NZ assets are effectively going on special.

In a discussion about what constitutes good reporting practice it is easy to buy into reporting myths and it is important to dispel these.

New Zealand financial markets are expected to firm when they open today after the National Party secured the first ever outright win.

Investors in listed power companies appear to be betting the National Party will retain the government benches at Saturday's general election.

A team of veteran investors is set to scrutinise the expansion plans of six high-growth businesses in a million-dollar funding competition.

Bankrupt Mark Bryers is using the name Mark Ryan to run a business in Australia with many hallmarks of his failed Blue Chip property investment group.

John Key has spoken to Air NZ about its expensive regional airfares after the government-controlled carrier's profits rose for a third year in a row.

The GRC SinoGreen Fund III is overseen by a group of venture capitalists including Kiwi Tony Bishop and his team at the Auckland branch of GRC Managers.

The South China Morning Post's editors have a sense of humour: "New Zealand MP Winston Peters accused of racism over Wong joke" was the headline.

New Zealand could be on the cusp of a big lift in mergers and acquisitions activity, driven in part by increasing Asian interest in local companies.

A bowling club in the heart of the upmarket Auckland suburb of Remuera has been sold for $8.1 million to an investment company which wants to build a retirement village.

The sharemarket performance of recent IPOs, in New Zealand and overseas, has been extremely disappointing.

A tiny rural Waikato town wants to establish itself as the "North Island's premier food technology hub".

The revelation that a Chinese company plans to buy the Lochinver Station in the central North Island is manna to Winston Peters.

The takeover bids launched for two NZX-listed firms yesterday could signal a new phase of heightened acquisition activity on the local sharemarket.

We recently passed the halfway mark for 2014, and the global bull market in equities has continued its seemingly relentless advance, undaunted by geopolitical concerns.

Analysts have mixed views on the outlook for the upcoming earnings season as some of NZ's biggest and most widely held firms prepare to report their annual results.

The country's largest broker has hired a new investment team in a bid to build up its $250 million funds management business.