The New Zealand Super Fund says it'll stick to a strong equities weighting following a five-year review.

David Chaplin, editor of financial services industry website Investment News looks at growing old and retirement funding.

Ryman Healthcare plans to increase resident numbers by 70 per cent in the next five years in New Zealand and Australia as it also mulls an ASX listing.

New research shows New Zealanders stay in paid work longer than almost any other developed country.

Michael Littlewood reckons the key to being set up for retirement is owning your own home and paying off your debts. And he'd know.

The results of a probe into retirement village residents' complaints and disputes with their owners and managers will be revealed next month and could lead to a shake-up.

Retirement village residents have created their own body, seeking a law review to give them more power.

Gareth Morgan looks at the morality and practicality of continuing the present system of superannuation.

The scheme was originally budgeted to cost taxpayers $18 million a year. That has now swollen to $26 million, and will continue to rise if nothing is done.

Not all KiwiSaver funds are vanilla-flavoured conservative, balanced or growth funds, writes Diana Clement.

Parents would be financially better off paying down their mortgage or other debts than signing their children up to KiwiSaver.

First home buyers using their KiwiSaver savings will have to leave at least $1000 in their accounts in future.

Ryman Healthcare posted a 24pc gain in annual profit to $241.9m as the value of its properties increased and revenue rose.

Nearly 33,000 New Zealanders live in retirement villages, up from just over 24,000 people three years ago.

KiwiSaver providers are struggling to move savers out of the default funds despite a requirement by the Government to give people more information on their choices.

Two near-misses in which elderly dementia sufferers narrowly avoided harm after wandering away from caregivers have been slammed as "appalling".

Many retirees are treating the KiwiSaver concept as a Lotto-style payout. Half of them are withdrawing their money and, of that number, most are blowing it on overseas holidays, cars, boats and consumer goods.

Soaring property costs will mean more New Zealanders are likely to experience hardship in retirement.

Why it pays to remember the new NZ Super rate.

Even though KiwiSaver is touted as a workplace savings scheme you don't need to be in work to reap some of the benefits, writes Helen Twose.

When setting goals and planning for the future seem all too hard, it’s time to carve them down into manageable chunks.

Neighbours have failed to stop Ryman Healthcare getting consent for a $100 million-plus village between Greenlane and One Tree Hill.

There are times when we just really don’t want to know how our finances are tracking towards retirement.