More than 11 new retirement villages will need to be built annually to cater for our aging population.

Retirement giant Ryman Healthcare has released the first image of a $100 million North Shore village on a site where hundreds of people will live.

Women in Australia still retire with around half as much superannuation than men despite more women in the workforce.

Mary Holm talks enjoying wealth, insurance brokers and property woes.

Arvida Group posted its first-half profit of about $7.4 million, putting it on track to meet its prospectus forecast for full-year earnings.

Mary Holm talks property decisions, bond yields, share funds and KiwiSaver providers.

Things are booming at rest-home builder and operator Ryman Healtcare, with profits growing and a pipeline of new villages underway.

Mary Holm talks managing personal dividends, KiwiSaver and cash funds.

Kiwis have more work to do when it comes to saving enough for a comfortable retirement, according to a financial literacy advocate.

Retirement village dispute resolutions could soon be improved, after gaps in the system were criticised.

One of our finest acting and directing talents turns his attention to the classic musical Guys and Dolls. By Dionne Christian

Retirement planning often only works with the average age people live to in mind, while many live much longer.

BNZ has disclosed research finding almost 1 in 3 homeowners will be older than retirement age before they throw off the shackles of a home mortgage.

'Like living in Club Med" or "siloing a generation". Retirement villages attract strong feelings for and against.

My town actually went backwards in the last QV figures, with one real estate company listing a solid three-bedroom home for $45,000, writes Mark Ebrey.

Mary Holm looks at selling up rental properties, more than one super scheme and who owns an inheritance?

Your advice to retirees to get out there and live it up - and not worry about investing money, or putting it into term investments - is probably a good idea.

The Retirement Commissioner has no plans to live in a retirement home, but she is doing the financial planning needed to look after the wine supply.

A retirement village set up an elaborate hidden-camera sting to catch one of its workers, after residents complained that they had lost thousands of dollars.

Mary Holm responds to readers financial questions - should old people spend the money and live it up?

Huge demand in the retirement sector propelled Metlifecare to push up net profit after tax 78.3 per cent to $122.7m.

Building a retirement fund is one thing, but we might do better to focus on what kind of weekly income we can achieve with it, writes Tom Hartmann.

An expert says many people are living in 'lala land' when it comes to how much they can earn off their savings.

Almost two-thirds of New Zealanders nearing retirement have not yet worked out how much money they will need to keep afloat after retiring, a new survey has found.

An organisation representing many of New Zealand's 33,000 retirement village residents has backed changes to the dispute system.

The need to strengthen the retirement village complaints system has been questioned following a report recommending change.

A forum is being established by the retirement commissioner to investigate better ways to resolve disputes.

Benchmarks are relatively important to investors: without them the performance figures churned out by fund managers dissolve into random floating numbers, writes David Chaplin.