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Cutbacks after veterans' home sold spark inquiry
A trust that sold off a 100-year lease of Auckland's historic Ranfurly veterans' home has called in an outside expert to review the quality of care the veterans are now receiving.
A trust that sold off a 100-year lease of Auckland's historic Ranfurly veterans' home has called in an outside expert to review the quality of care the veterans are now receiving.
Financial Services Council wants to lift contributions to 7% and reduce the tax rate.
The debate on retirement income is set to continue today with a major industry group due to release its recommendations on how to supersize New Zealanders' retirement income.
Imagine the outrage if it were discovered that more than 80,000 Kiwis were receiving incomes of $6b a year, but were also receiving a benefit, writes Bernard Hickey.
New Zealanders will need as much as $200,000 in savings to augment NZ Super payments and provide a comfortable old age.
You've saved all your life and have a tidy nest egg. Now it's all downhill. How long will that capital last and how can you eke it out?
Peter Dunne deserves credit for suggesting an incentive to take state superannuation later in life. His proposal could solve a number of problems.
"Peter Dunne has dunne it again. Like his floundering Income Sharing Bill, Flexi-Super looks like a solution to something - but to what?" asks Susan St John.
Prime Minister John Key has his head in the sand with his block on raising the retirement age and is more interested in clinging to power.
Maori and Pacific Islanders - who have shorter lifespans - would benefit most from being able to take superannuation early, United Future Leader Peter Dunne says.
Whether you own your own or rent can have a big impact on the kind of lifestyle you have in retirement, says Massey University.
Statistics NZ said yesterday that the population aged 65-plus had doubled since the early 1980s to 635,200 and was likely to double again by 2040.
Bernard Hickey asks how should New Zealand save for its retirement? This simple question gets more complicated the more you think about it.
AMP put in the best performance of the default KiwiSaver providers over the year to June 30.
A home that was supposed to be a retirement dream has become a fast-tightening noose around its owner's neck, after he has become trapped in a rare situation where he must move - but can't sell.
Most major KiwiSaver providers say they are ready to start accepting transtasman super transfers but their Aussie counterparts aren't playing ball.
The FMA is preparing to take action against two unnamed KiwiSaver issuers for making misleading statements in their offer documents.
The number of people signing up to KiwiSaver surged by more than 21,000 last month - the most it has grown by in a single month in over 18 months.
A retirement village has been criticised after a resident lay dead in his flat for two weeks before a neighbour queried why she hadn't heard his flute playing.