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What to buy when you can't buy a house
New podcast: In all the condescension about buying a first home, what's really achievable?
New podcast: In all the condescension about buying a first home, what's really achievable?
Summerset Group increased sales of occupation rights at its retirement villages.
Those who feel most confident about retirement seek help first.
COMMENT: Adrian Orr gives an explanation of The Treasury's role and how the Fund operates.
Queenstown is becoming a popular retirement destination for baby-boomers, a report shows.
Labour and Green party politicians were in Rotorua to discuss issues around elder care.
COMMENT: Boomers not the only ones to complain about, writes Brian Rudman.
New report reveals scale - and risks - of retirement village growth
Kiwisaver is so important we can't afford to make suboptimal investment calls.
COMMENT: Gareth Morgan's Opportunities Party has some radical ideas for tax and benefits, Brian Fallow writes.
The growth plan means $50 million will be spent on villages at Pt Chevalier, Papakura and Cambridge.
The Government needed to go harder on superannuation changes, says Heather du Plessis-Allan.
Baby boomer bashing won't solve the problems, says Liam Dann.
COMMENT: The events of the past week may be a turning point in election year, writes Audrey Young.
COMMENT: Proposed reforms will only nibble at the cost of taxpayer-funded pensions, says Brian Fallow.
The spectre of changes to the Super scheme has sent retirees flocking to financial advisers.
Labour's new deputy Jacinda Ardern hangs out her shingle as champion of Generation X - and National's NIkki Kaye bites back.
The Prime Minister's proposal to lift the retirement age has been rejected by National's likely coalition partners and opponents.
COMMENT: Is it a deft or a daft move, to begin raising the pension age in 20 years time?
Herald readers have expressed their views on the changes to NZ Super announced by Prime Minister Bill English.
National Party has stunned its critics with a plan for national superannuation.
Labour's leader passes up a chance to update the superannuation age.
COMMENT: Prime Minister Bill English has torpedoed his own campaign line of certainty.
Bill English remains tight-lipped about possible changes to Super, but has ruled out means-testing or changing the way it is paid.
COMMENT: The retirement age debate shows politics is frustrating, says Rachel Smalley. Parties have to do what they can to be elected, but they should be authentic.
Bill English hints at changes as the cost of NZ Super is expected to triple in the next 20 years from $11 billion to $36 billion.
Prime Minister Bill English is being urged to give voters some certainty about whether he plans to change superannuation eligibility.
A quarter of New Zealand's workforce is expected to be over 55 within the next 20 years.
COMMENT: A flawed forecast can be the difference between hitting your nest-egg goal and still needing to work at 70.