The Loyalty Ladder is simple to learn, gives you an excellent road map to follow to increase your sales and profits and is made up of five steps.

Instead of using KiwiSaver to buy your first house but be tied to one place, get a home on wheels and wake up to a new view every morning. But is this a possibility?

Michael Pettis must be the world's coolest economist, Liam Dann writes.

There's no denying the romance of space and perhaps this is why so many investors, customers and journalists got caught up in the dream of launching Australia's first privately owned satellite.

Selling in city and buying a cheaper property either north or south could mean plenty of money to invest, Mary Holm writes.

As viewing habits change, free-to-air TV looks likely to go the way of fax machines.

Making a dodgy investment decision is easy. Frame it with the wrong facts and figures and it's bound to look good, Diana Clement writes.

CaseLoad's cosy mano a mano with distinguished Queen's Counsel and Auckland District Law Society (ADLS) president Brian Keene was jolly and long-overdue.

The case for taxing the income of residential property investors is compelling.

Two high-flying Alexes have been in the legal headlines in the past week: Huka Lodge owner Alex van Heeren and former Heart of the City boss Alex Swney.

I have heard many stories of Australian businesses built out of fees and commissions paid by clients the advisers have never seen.

If you are buying a home using KiwiSaver funds what are the regulations around living in the home for the first six months?

As you pump money into your KiwiSaver with each pay, where exactly does it flow to?

Negotiation skills are an asset to hone to help you achieve better outcomes. Here are nine tips on how to improve your negotiation success.

There was a time when being in line to inherit your father's media empire was about the best job in the world.

Making the move from being a working person to living, at best, in reduced circumstances, and at worst on NZ Super alone, is difficult.

The government needs to act on the Reserve Bank's warning that the boom affecting the Auckland housing market could spark a financial crisis, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

John Drinnan on Fairfax Media's Herculean task in trying to rescue its huge photo archive from a legal quagmire.

It seems the Government plans to rely heavily on a hoard of cheap, low-quality carbon credits to meet its current climate change target.

Jock Anderson on IPCA appointments, gossip about Justice Simon Moore and the rule of law controversy.

Personal finance columnist David Chaplin on the court case between 12 global investors and the Portuguese 'Novo Banco'.

If you'd like a challenge, I thoroughly recommend getting some wheels and starting to train for a cycle trail somewhere next summer.

Better than nothing, but only just. The increase in funding for business research and development grants Prime Minister John Key announced yesterday looks even less impressive in light of numbers....

The Prime Minister may have been out of New Zealand - or possibly flat out with the demands of 24/7 forex trading - when New Zealand television news and current affairs was in its heyday.

Fund managers - even the 'vanilla' vendors - could pose a risk to the global financial system, according to a new IMF report.

I have been retired for one year now and am thinking of using my KiwiSaver balanced fund to provide an income.