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.

KiwiSaver is all about retirement savings but it recognises that for many people a comfortable retirement includes owning their own home.

Banks have started cutting interest rates as the busy house-hunting season heats up. So how will it affect would-be home-buyers?

The sea, the sun, the sand – what’s not to like? Unless it’s a holiday that ends up setting you back $136,400…

Early retirement is an unrealistic dream for many adult Kiwis and some fear they will have to work into their 70s.

An excellent communicator albeit with a quietly confident manner, highly successful but without any arrogance, an affinity with those moving into quiet retirement but with a love of hard-rocking Shihad - Ryman Healthcare boss Simon Challies.

A dramatic rise in the number of rest-home caregivers working on temporary visas is raising concerns about disruption to the lives of vulnerable rest-home residents.

Women are feeling a lot less confident about reaching their savings goals than men, an ANZ retirement survey has found.

Only 20 per cent of people near retirement surveyed passed a quiz about the basics of retirement planning.

A large proportion of New Zealand business owners have no plan for exiting their operations.

It's good news if you're in your 30s but not so good if you're over 50 according to earnings data from Statistics New Zealand.

The film Hip Hop-eration pushes perceptions of retirement in the right direction.

So fans of the actor's witty puns, intellectual musings and calls to humanitarian arms will be disappointed to learn that he's decided to temporarily quit the network.

On Tuesday, right on my 63rd birthday, a press release from the retirement policy and research centre at the University of Auckland announced that New Zealand now has one of the developed world's....

Gosh, that was a baptism by fire. I remember the day, in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash, when the Brierley share price dropped below $2 - down from more than $5 just a few weeks before.

The taxman has invested millions and decades trying to shut down schemes of its 80-year-old nemesis.

It's amazing to think that after all the years of talking, reporting and issuing of statements, New Zealand stands completely unprepared for its own 'retirement'.