The next big financial disaster to hit New Zealand investors could involve a collapse in house prices or the sharemarket, says departing investment watchdog boss Sean Hughes.

Hundreds of thousands of Kiwis are up for a tax king hit. And many of them have no idea it's coming.

Simply withdrawing savings in regular amounts carries the risk that the money might run out before you do.

What's your money up to? Are your KiwiSaver and other investments funding industries that damage the environment, use child labour, encourage gambling or produce tobacco?

Wouldn't you love to manage your own retirement funds? Instead of handing them over to a KiwiSaver provide, you research and buy the assets, which could include individual equities and even rental properties.

The difference between passive, relative and absolute funds...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission says it has frozen the assets of a man who came to the attention of New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority.

I read the other day about women hitting retirement with less in the kitty than men.

Five years after the global financial crisis, risk aversion remains a dominant feature of the financial markets.

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

A USB stick with sensitive information about 1200 clients of a life insurance company has been stolen from an employee's car.

Meridian Energy's shares debuted at $1.08 after tepid demand in the initial public offering saw the stock sold at the bottom end of its indicative range.

Home-loan risk can be spread by keeping some floating and the rest fixed over both shorter and longer terms.

Australian investment funds are taking advantage of a buoyant New Zealand retirement village industry to exit their stakes in the sector's main players.

Mum and dad investors have helped boost Australian shares to fresh five-and-a-half-year highs.

All KiwiSaver investors should be able to find out how their fund is performing, what fees are being charged and where the money is being invested from today.

Cloud accounting software provider Xero has become a $3 billion company.

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.

Shares in Xero rose 30c to $20 per share this morning - a day after the company raised $180 million in new capital.