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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 reader writes: I intend to settle a cash sum on each of my grandchildren on my demise. What fish hooks exist if I place a lump sum in a KiwiSaver account for each?

A neighbour is opposing a new Auckland Ryman Healthcare village, saying views will be blocked and roads jammed with traffic when hundreds of elderly people move in.

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.

Auckland has the nation's highest rate of homeowners still paying off their mortgages and the lowest proportion who own their home mortgage-free.

Most low-wage workers battle big corporations, but home health-care workers deal with a different beast: the state, which ultimately pays their wages.

If an investment approach is suitable for other beneficiaries, education and healthcare it should also be applied to government superannuation, writes Peter Lyons.

Financial markets have been gripped by investor fear in recent days but the boss of the $26 billion New Zealand Superannuation Fund reckons volatility is as much an opportunity as a risk.

Australia's retirees, faced with declining affordability of housing and inadequate savings are turning to cheaper housing options.

Women need to stop thinking "the universe" will provide and start planning better for their financial security, says Retirement Commissioner Diane Maxwell.

Every Wednesday afternoon at around 2.15, Janusz Szubski sings. You have to be standing close to hear him, but it doesn't make much difference: he's not singing for you.

A woman believed to be New Zealand's oldest resident has died at the age of 110 at a rest home north of Wellington.

KiwiSaver certainly isn't the first word in workplace retirement savings.

What would it take to give up the day job and retire young? Financial adviser Simon Hassan says few people want to quit work at a young age these days.