A 42-year-old foreign exchange trader has pleaded guilty to stealing from investors that included his family and friends.

A divide is emerging between "young investors" and their "not-so-young" counterparts over perceived returns from rental properties, ASB says.

Our question is that we are considering putting $10,000 each into starting a KiwiSaver account for our grandkids as inheritance. They are 10, 15 and 18.

Labour's housing policy to restrict house sales to foreigners could be at odds with New Zealand's Free Trade Agreement with China.

Labour leader David Shearer says he "makes no apologies" for his party's proposal to exclude all offshore buyers from the New Zealand housing market.

The challenge for New Zealand will be how to manage while the economies of its two biggest trading partners are slowing during continued strength in the Kiwi dollar

Ponsonby chartered accountant Hongying Qiu was in and out of 11 Farrar St in Grey Lynn within 10 minutes yesterday afternoon.

This month's sixth anniversary of KiwiSaver has been celebrated by industry players and financial commentators, and with some justification.

Editorial: Restoring investor confidence in NZ's financial markets is a long-term proposition - and Sean Hughes showed how much can be done in 3 years.

We need to be as clever as clever now and forever to get our savings scheme working to meet New Zealand's next boom, writes Peter Neilson.

Many properties around Whangarei are being bought by Aucklanders as house hunters look north because of high prices in the city.

Business remains upbeat in the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research's quarterly business opinion poll.

David Ross appeared briefly in the Wellington District Court this morning, where hearings were adjourned to August 22.

The number of first-home buyers using KiwiSaver savings to get a deposit on a house has almost doubled in the past year as the scheme turns six.

Three more charges have been laid today against the alleged Ponzi-schemer David Ross.

People wanting to transfer their Australian superannuation savings back to New Zealand should expect the process to take around six weeks.

Kiwi investors need to take responsibility for their financial decisions and stop blaming the market regulator every time something goes wrong, says the head of the Financial Markets Authority.

The Serious Fraud Office has laid charges against financial adviser David Ross, who is alleged to have operated a $400 million Ponzi scheme.

A sell-off by international investors is likely to be behind the weakness in Mighty River Power's share price, say analysts.

House-hunters are seeing a return of "buy-off-the-plans" developments which advertise low deposits and no repayments until completion.

If there's an "investment" that's guaranteed to eat capital, it's retirement villages. These resort-like gated communities for older people are popping up all over the country.

No matter which you favour, there's no way of knowing where the prices of real estate or stocks will go

I see little point in the Govt selling shares generating dividend yields of 6 to 7 per cent to avoid borrowing to fund its deficits at around 3 to 4 per cent, writes Peter Lyons.

People need to keep investing their retirement savings after they retire.