Sharper day-to-day movements will be unnerving for some investors.

What would it take to give up the day job and retire young? Financial adviser Simon Hassan says few people want to quit work at a young age these days.

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.

At only 623 pages the unofficial almost-final draft of the Financial Markets Conduct Act regulations, is light reading by historical novel standards.

On Saturday NZ time, news of a significant resignation hit the airwaves. And David Cunliffe quit too.

The diversification message is clear enough: don't stick all your money in the same place, writes David Chaplin.

The rules are that you must not rip your client off but if you tell them you are going to rip them off then that is fine.

After negotiations with the FMA, both Kiwibank and ASB are finally set to kill their respective zombie KiwiSaver schemes.

The revamped New Zealand Superannuation Fund website sets a new benchmark for full disclosure.

van Eyk Advice NZ last week froze redemptions from seven products in its Blueprint series.

A major issue with KiwiSaver, from the FSC's perspective, is that too many KiwiSavers are in low risk, low return conservative KiwiSaver funds.

Health insurance fraud is a significant problem in New Zealand, adding perhaps $30 million to premiums annually.

The post-person delivered me two items of historical interest: a cheque and a credit card.

David Chaplin's take on demystifying the vocabulary of finance.

A specialist apartment real estate agency boss is starting up a new business to encourage people to become landlords by finding, buying and managing Auckland residential properties.

In the past insider trading has been viewed as something of a victimless crime and the perpetrators have been afforded a degree of notoriety as "expert traders".

David Chaplin's tongue-in-cheek blog post about the current political scandal.

The niceties of best-practice double-entry accounting are probably lost on most of us, but Alan Hubbard would've understood what he wasn't complying with.

An electronic, auction-based mechanism will replace a ritualised negotiation for silver pricing that's been in place for 117 years.

As David Chaplin writes, financial literacy - a major theme of the recent Workplace Savings NZ conference - is tough going.

Currently one of the most “volatile” sectors on the stockmarket is that plague of technology stocks which floated in the last year or so.

According to Morningstar the tax environment for New Zealand managed funds - including KiwiSaver - is relatively benign.

New data from FundSource suggests KiwiSaver default members may be starting to make more risk-appropriate choices.

KiwiSaver members now have on average more than $9300 saved in their accounts but some providers have attracted much bigger savers into their scheme.

In a video interview on nzherald.co.nz, Eaqub said capital gains tax on investment property was often discussed in New Zealand as if it didn't exist - but it already does.

Wellington-based PledgeMe and Auckland-based Snowball Effect are the first to gain equity crowd funding licences under the new Financial Markets Conduct Act.