COMMENT: The great Asian opportunity for Australia is largely untapped despite years of trying to get it right.

Stats due Thursday are expected to show "whopping" levels of economic growth. Is our rock star economy on the comeback trail? Liam Dann reports.

COMMENT: Applicants are expected to provide physical evidence of their financial hardship.

COMMENT: It's hard to know how to react to the news Auckland's average house value rose over $1 million in August.

COMMENT: Exclusion and engagement two ways to ensure holdings reflect values.

COMMENT: Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Whenever we open our wallets these days there's always a gotcha.

COMMENT: Even index funds offer schemes that screen out the bad guys.

COMMENT: Aussies don't muck about when it comes to probing the cause of high-profile collapses - neither should we.

COMMENT: The problem is the US constitution and its separation of powers.

COMMENT: "There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about."

COMMENT: Five takeaways from the two-day G20 summit from Theresa May's modesty to Jack Ma's chutzpah.

COMMENT: Huge number of hacks mean your supposedly secure credentials are easy for anyone to find - and use.

COMMENT: Economists are tipping new data will show strong growth next week, so why is the commentary so grim?

COMMENT: Don't let this week go by without hanging some targets for the short and long terms.

COMMENT: For months, Liberal Party figures have been at loggerheads with the country's main business lobby group, the Business Council of Australia.

COMMENT: It's Money Week - time to face the fear and think about retirement.

COMMENT: John Key and Nick Smith have in recent weeks taken to trumpeting Auckland's current building boom as the biggest in New Zealand history.

COMMENT: There are a couple of issues here. One is your best move financially. The other is the "system".

Most politicians have long taken the advice of the lobbyists and kept their noses out of regulating the media business, or giving

COMMENT: The old days of rising incomes have become just a memory for many, new study shows.

Simon O'Connor says consumers may not engage deeply with their KiwiSaver providers, but they expect that their KiwiSaver fund is being managed in a way that avoids doing harm.

There's a lot riding on Fonterra's financial results due out on September 22.

COMMENT: Can the experience that a retail investor has with the finance sector reasonably be described as having their interests put first?

Find a marketing or sales strategy that is already working well and then put it into action in your own business.

COMMENT: Vodafone's working hard to avoid being in a "dumb pipe" situation, writes Juha Saarinen.

COMMENT: Central banks can't pick markets any more than they can pick pop hits, Liam Dann writes.

COMMENT: Next week sees the return of Money Week, which runs 5-11 September. How well can you see your future?

COMMENT: Alternative measures can be useful but accounting standards are key for investors to understand performance.

COMMENT: Which politicians will be brave and honest enough to propose taxes to stop land banking?

COMMENT: Janet Yellen defended the value and effectiveness of the current US monetary policy regime.