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Strict limits on access to KiwiSaver

I've recently separated from my wife and taken a mortgage on my home to pay a separation settlement. Can I use my KiwiSaver to pay into the home loan?

Get Sorted: You deserve better

With money, it’s not about how much we make, or even how much we keep – it’s how much we grow that counts.

Five quick reminders to help you improve sales

Debbie Mayo-Smith offers five reminders that will help you to improve sales in your business.

Time to thank mum for savings

Dear 20-somethings: You're quite right that nobody can make any promises about KiwiSaver in the future - or at least any promises that we can be confident a future government will keep.

Diana Clement: Annuities - cash till it's over

Many retirees are treating the KiwiSaver concept as a Lotto-style payout. Half of them are withdrawing their money and, of that number, most are blowing it on overseas holidays, cars, boats and consumer goods.

Christopher Niesche: Crowdfunders sniffing round banks' territory

Once the home away from home for down-at-heel Kiwis in Australia, these days billionaire James Packer, Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and a host of business leaders live or have lived in....

Liam Dann: English knows risk of low-grade growth

With commodity prices falling, New Zealand's strong economic run is at risk of faltering, writes Liam Dann. Lower export earnings should add urgency to this month's Budget for Finance Minister Bill English.

Caseload: Margaret Malcolm comes to lawyers' rescue

Jock Anderson on Margaret Malcolm helping lawyers deal with client complaints, a conference in Wellington and media reporting.

Christopher Adams: Retailers face new challenges

The rise of online shopping, discount-obsessed consumers - when it comes to trading challenges listed retailers have their fair share. And there's a new one appearing on the horizon. Through a rule....

World's coolest economist hot on his numbers

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

Satellite dream a nightmare for investors

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.

Time to do away with those rose-tinted glasses

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.

Cashing up from Auckland's boom

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

Big effort needed for MediaWorks bonuses

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

Caseload: Society doles out the bikkies ...

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.

Brian Fallow: Property tax - the case is clear

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

Stock Takes: Wall of cash could hit NZ stocks

What would happen if Chinese retail investors got a sudden taste for New Zealand stocks? Until recently that question might have seemed a little preposterous.

Carmel Fisher: Generation has a mind of its own