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.

Nearly 50 per cent of women find it uncomfortable to talk about their long-term financial future.

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.

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 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.

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