Foreign investment is not a black and white issue. Too often the populist reaction to the issue is knee-jerk and xenophobic.

High-profile business organisations are calling for investor migrants to be required to channel more cash into productive, growth-focused New Zealand investments.

New Zealanders have $146 billion saved in the bank - and the interest payments many depend on are falling quickly.

KiwiSaver provider Mercer is set to expand into the insurance market for the first time in a bid to capture more savers.

A new video series and website aims to get us on the on-ramp to savvy investment.

How does an Auckland solicitor come to sit on trusts linked to an exiled Russian tycoon and former billionaire?

If you were given $500 out of the blue, what would you do with it?

Hollywood celebs are proving themselves to be canny tech invetors - here are the top five.

How a former teacher set out to understand why she couldn't get to grips with her spending and ended up retraining as a money coach.

If you think education is "going to the dogs" then you really ought to get down to a local school and take a look at how they're teaching.

Your advice to retirees to get out there and live it up - and not worry about investing money, or putting it into term investments - is probably a good idea.

Many of us wouldn't be brave enough to invest any money when things look as precarious as they have lately, writes Mark Lister. We would sit on the sidelines and wait until things looked safe agai

Christopher Niesche writes: The jobs and education portal is a mature business in Australia so it has to look for growth overseas, particularly in Asia.

A new online exchange aims to help investors who own shares in private companies or units in property, farm or forestry syndicates to trade them more easily.

Foreign firms play an important role but we need good rules in place, writes Brian Gaynor.

Councils and Government have a poor record when it comes to selling shares, says Brent Sheather.

Tying up money in a property investment could be more hassle than it's worth for a recently retired couple still young enough to splash out on themselves.

A company's share price doesn't tell us anything about whether it's expensive or cheap and, if anything, it should be taken as a sign of a strong track record of performance, writes Mark Lister.

Why do local fund managers embrace hedging so vigorously? Personal finance and investing columnist Brent Sheather explains.

They love the lifestyle and making money isn't their main reason for arriving. But super-rich migrants complain about NZ's cost of living, bad weather and slow pace.

Despite constantly forging new records, property buyers expect house prices will continue to increase.

Michael Cullen, the architect of KiwiSaver, wrote at the time of its launch in 2007 "that KiwiSaver would help us own more of our New Zealand businesses and that it would produce deeper capital....

China share-market leverage from sources such as online lenders and umbrella trusts has plunged by 61 per cent.

However, fund managers expect muted reaction to yesterday's rout on Chinese stock markets.

New Zealand banks approved three times as many mortgages for investors as they did for first home-buyers over the past year, Reserve Bank figures show.

Jamie Gray writes: For Fonterra's farmers, investors and employees the severity of the dairy downturn will become clear early next month.

Sydney just hit the million-dollar mark and property prices in Auckland show no sign of slowing down either.

There has never been a better time to pull out his term "crisitunity", writes Eric Crampton.

Credit card debt is considered unsecured debt unlike your mortgage where a bank can sell your house if you fail to make payments.