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Ryman interim reported net profit up 32%
12,750 residents have licenses to occupy, company plans a further 6506 new units, beds.
Rising cost of retirement: How much a couple now needs
Updated figures show how much Kiwi retirees are spending to have a comfortable retirement.
Local Focus: Life lessons from Les - 103 not out
WWll veteran Les Morice has a peaceful recipe for a long and healthy life.
Tougher residency rules for superannuation passed
The residency rules for superannuation apply equally to people born in NZ or overseas.
The $345m deal over Zoom: Retirement villages bought during lockdown
Alert levels 4 and 3 during August, September and October didn't make it any easier.
More retirement villages allow visitors under level 3
"Our approach is an extension of the picnic concept" - Arvida Group CEO.
'It has to stop': Retirement village to defy guidelines and open to visitors
Retirement village boss says some residents feeling isolated after nine weeks in lockdown.
KiwiSaver withdrawals on the rise as lockdowns cause financial hardship
An increasing number of Kiwis are tapping into their retirement savings.
Surprise $345m Arvida swoop on rival
The pandemic doesn't impact the demand for retirement village units.
Twenty years on: Is the Super Fund on track?
It's 20 years since the fund was set up but is it still on track to part-pay for NZ Super?
Bupa boss: Nurse rises up ranks to run $1.6b NZ business
"People walk in and all hell will break loose. You have to stay calm" - Carolyn Cooper.
Business Hub: Carolyn Cooper of Bupa Villages
Managing director of Bupa Villages & Aged Care NZ Carolyn Cooper says her healthcare frontline work as an emergency department nurse still comes in handy today leading the business with $1.6 billion of assets. Video / NZ Herald
Cambridge retirement village for 400 people wins consent
Site on the town's northern limits is now open pastureland
Stressed Kiwis stuck in Aussie face pension cuts
People can collect Super for up to 26 weeks while overseas before payments are frozen.
Consumer NZ seeks probe on 'misleading' retirement village claims
"There's no guarantee you'll get a bed if you need it" - Jon Duffy, Consumer NZ.
Retail leader named to head NZ retirement giant
Umbers is now based in Melbourne but starts later next month
Don't retire poor: How to avoid hardship in your twilight years
Time is power when investing and people need to take control of their own retirement
Property valuations see retirement giant's net profit surge to $264m
"We have moved quickly to keep our residents and staff safe" - Scoullar
Some Metlifecare village staff, residents isolating
"A lot more risk of the pandemic this time": Metlifecare chief executive Earl Gasparich.
Metlifecare makes $304.4m profit, new $150m village planned
Total assets of $4b are up from $3.5b, company developing four new sites
Retirement village bosses meet virtually for pandemic discussions
The villages are responding strongly to the threat.
Retirement village apartment licences set $3m-$4m price records
Peddlethorp designed the buildings with Stewart Harris doing interior design.
Car collector at wheel for Summerset
"If I'm not here at Summerset, I'll be at a race track somewhere in New Zealand."
Sorry saga of Sue Brown's mum has sequel at Parliament
Consumer rights are weaker than they could be says Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson.
Retirement village criticised for care given to a man who fell walking his dog
The HDC is reminding retirement villages of its responsibilities to all it residents.
Steve Braunias: Love, loss and changing the law - The extraordinary life of Tim
Steve Braunias meets Tim Fairhall, who fought the law and the law lost.
Retirement village boss hits out at residents' call for change
'The arbiter of all this will not be you, me or the Government. It will be the residents.'
Retirement village residents air grievances
Inherant power imbalance between wealthy owner/operators and residents,
Brian Fallow: Making pensioners poorer isn't a Super idea
Treasury needs better ideas for containing the rising cost of NZ Superannuation.
The 'defiant' new boss of retirement giant Oceania Healthcare
"I've been in and around the sector for over 10 years," says Oceania Healthcare boss.
Aussies smack down Kiwi retirement giant's expansion effort
"Ryman has downplayed the impacts of the effects on this bayside estate" - tribunal
The sad life and lonely death of pensioner who found she didn't own her home
The missing house, the dead body, the secret affair, and the SFO investigation.
Retirement village living: How to choose the right one
Anne Gibson looks at some of the key issues to investigate before making your move.