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Get Sorted: Be ready to bounce back

As we all build our own financial houses and get them in order, they need to be resilient when things happen.

Prosper by following the crowd

Since the Financial Markets Conduct Act made crowdfunding investment possible, people can now buy shares in companies that should aim to eventually pay dividends.

Apple: The worst of capitalism

Tech giants like Apple keep looking for overseas tax loopholes as their foreign cash has piled up to almost absurd levels.

Inside Money: NZ Super change to excite local share managers

NZ Super has taken direct control of the almost $260m in local equities formerly managed on its behalf by AMP Capital.

Brent Sheather: Bond investing 201: How it's done

How to put together a NZ fixed interest portfolio by focusing on the investment strategies typically employed by large institutional investors.

Inside Money: Aust exposes invisible advisers - why NZ needs a look-in too

'Holiday' can get around the super-scheme

I am changing jobs and my new employer is exempt from automatically signing up employees to KiwiSaver as they have their own super scheme, while also offering KiwiSaver.

UK starts paying off WWI debt

One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I, Britain plans to repay some of the debt issued to help finance the conflict.

Countdown adds insurance to supermarket offering

New Zealand supermarket chain Countdown is adding insurance services as it seeks to widen the offering to its 2.7 million weekly customers.

Californians gear up to battle big soda

Voters in San Francisco will decide next month whether to tax sodas and other sugary drinks to reduce ailments including obesity and diabetes.

Mary Holm: Loans can threaten family harmony

Our son will be studying in Australia for the next few years and will need to borrow money from us for fees, living expenses and so on.

Diana Clement: No such thing as a sure thing, guaranteed

Executive Success: Data is power, if you can find it

It's a war of data and the smart organisations are using data as their secret weapon," says Michael Whitehead, chief executive of data warehousing specialist WhereScape.

Inside Money: Report 413 - the high commission conundrum

Courier driver ordered to pay IRD $180k

A courier driver who blamed a non-existent tax agent for mishandling his affairs has been ordered to pay $180,000 to Inland Revenue.

Brent Sheather: Bond investing 101 - Why bother with bonds?

IRD catch up with tax dodgers

If the house always wins, then the taxman isn't far behind - at least not during the last year - when IRD won almost 85 per cent of the litigation it was involved in.

Inside Money: Liquidation looms for van Eyk

The sale of van Eyk Advice NZ should be concluded within days, according to the first report to creditors from the administrator of its Australian parent.