Kiwis are conned out of their money every day of the week.

All Black captain Richie McCaw has been planning for retirement by investing in the aged-care industry.

It will take a few more disasters to move things along but we are certainly heading in the right direction.

Savers who keep their money in conservative KiwiSaver funds lag behind those in growth funds and risk having a smaller nest egg at retirement, warns Morningstar.

Sean Hughes rode into town and blew the bad guys away with the FMA arguably doing more in a few years than the Securities Commission accomplished in a decade, writes Brett Sheather.

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.

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?

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

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.

Six years on, the majority of KiwiSaver members remain in the default conservative funds where they were automatically placed on first joining the scheme, writes Blair Turnbull.

I read your interesting recent article on the Welcome Home Loan and believe it might apply to our returning daughter

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.

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

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.

Share price expected to rise on first day but analysts are unsure of progress after that.

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.