An American investor with US$500 million ($574 million) has been in New Zealand scouting for retirement village assets and meeting one influential banker.

The man suing Huka Lodge's owner for half the assets has convinced the High Court a caveat claiming he has an interest in the property should stay in place.

The NZX's new Index Futures - which launch today - could stabilise the market and reduce volatility to the benefit of all investors, including KiwiSaver users.

It's a long way from netball hoops to jumping through the hoops of doing business in China but farmer Mike Wilkins is aiming as carefully as his former Silver Fern wife.

Junk bonds are back, though in truth they never went away and we've lost track of what these bonds actually were and are: Instruments that allow riskier ventures to be funded.

Most foreign investors who come to New Zealand bring capital and "know how" and make a great contribution to our young country, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Hellaby Holdings expects to add $20m to annual revenue after buying New Zealand Trucks South Island and Dasko Marketing NZ.

Business confidence went from strength to only slightly less strength in the ANZ's latest monthly survey.

The technology company started by Kim Dotcom is heading for the New Zealand sharemarket with a valuation of $210 million.

More foreign buyers are likely to make bids for New Zealand assets this year with China at the forefront, according to a report by Chapman Tripp.

The former New Zealand boss of JPMorgan Chase is locked in "full-blown adversarial litigation" with the bank where he is seeking $170,000 in damages.

The FMA has dropped civil proceedings against four Lombard directors as the failed finance company's receivers have reached a $10 million settlement with the men, their insurers and an unnamed "third party".

Richard Conway says $200 was all it took to establish his start-up, Pure SEO, in 2009.

The debts of a company are not the debts of the person who owns it, says Professor Susan Watson, deputy dean of the faculty of law at Auckland University.

Sweeping changes to securities law have undermined the custodial sentences handed out to former directors of Lombard, the Supreme Court has heard.

Having a culture where star talent was allowed to make investment decisions without being checked was a big driver of the global financial crisis.

Japan slashed its estimate of economic growth for the July-September quarter Monday as investment by companies slowed more than first estimated.

We must first conquer our island syndrome and pull together if we are ever to win the world from the edge, writes Kevin Roberts.

Nearly $60 million has been returned to 2217 people who were stung by the failure of the Credit SaILS investment.

The purpose was to increase the professionalism of angel investing in New Zealand.

How does a fast-growing small business attract angel investment?

ASB - the country's second largest KiwiSaver provider - says nearly one in four of its members are not contributing to their retirement savings.

Watchdog checks progress as several providers struggle to meet deadline for new reports.

Investors will soon be able to take stakes in small Kiwi businesses through an online crowdfunding system which hopes to "liberate the New Zealand economy".

NZ's market regulator has cancelled the allegedly misleading offer documents of a company that claimed it would use investor money to set up dialysis clinics.

Goodman Property Trust, with a $2 billion real estate portfolio, will celebrate the opening of the first stage of its new town centre.

Xero is starting to "come up on the foils and sail away" while its massive US rival is "struggling to move online".