COMMENT: There are lessons to be learned from the Dick Smith saga.

COMMENT: Knowing the difference between wants and needs among nuggets of advice.

COMMENT: Investing in instalments can have advantages over making a one-off deposit.

COMMENT: Stephen Jennings' warning that "we are facing an iceberg" that deserves to shatter business complacency on housing.

COMMENT: Building a smartwatch that ticks all the boxes is a massive challenge.

COMMENT: Landlords must be feeling pretty unloved these days.

If it's 4pm on a Tuesday, you won't find Competenz chief executive Fiona Kingsford in the office.

COMMENT: Running the eight-page China Watch PR/propaganda sheet (take your pick) seems self-destructive for this respected media brand.

COMMENT: Malcolm Turnbull's narrow win in Australia ought to put fellow political brahmin John Key on notice.

COMMENT: Do you find GPS technology sometimes useful but also distracting and limiting?

COMMENT: Money strategies for your super savvy kids.

COMMENT: What can you think of that is a welcomed gift, and yet is also a piece of blatant marketing?

COMMENT: A new phenomenon due to the rise in smartphones is where we turn to our devices to answer a need.

COMMENT: John Key is more worried about the short-term fates of leveraged-up speculators and developers than the long-term fate of Generation Rent.

COMMENT: KiwiSaver can be accessed for buying a first home, but one of the eligibility criteria is that the house or land must be in New Zealand.

Comment: John Key and Graeme Wheeler should fix the housing crisis - not point the finger at each other.

COMMENT: Potential calamities like Brexit are said to occur every eight years.

COMMENT: NZ household wealth figures show the booming residential property market is a major contributor to inequality.

COMMENT: Emergencies are a fact of life with children - so anticipate them.

COMMENT: It is a pretty crap society that pulls the ladder up on younger people or those less well off just because they want to preserve their new unearned wealth.

COMMENT: Five ways to quickly improve profits in your retail shop.

COMMENT: Looking for a financial plan but not sure where to begin? Try this

COMMENT: A selection of ways you can use your smartphone camera.

COMMENT: New Zealand's economic history matches the line chart for our net migration flow through the years, writes Liam Dann.

COMMENT: Imagine how productive and wealthy our economies would be with a President Trump and a Prime Minister Peters.

COMMENT: The Wild West is alive and well in the financial services world.

COMMENT: Snubbing EU stifles flow of young immigrants needed as UK ages.

COMMENT: Indeed nobody can foresee a Black Swan - by definition. It's a rare and unpredictable event.

COMMENT: It is a scandal that it has taken a Govt inquiry for PM to agree to a crackdown on abuse of NZ foreign trust regimes.

COMMENT: Don't suffer "bad Wi-Fi".