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Diana Clement: Pays to check bank rates

Are zombies eating your bank interest? Zombie accounts are the ones that pay low interest rates - sometimes as low as zero.

Jock Anderson's Caseload: Bikkie ban boosts Law Society coffers

The ADSL has stopped losing money - due, in part, to savings made from a free chocolate biscuit ban.

Brian Fallow: Low inflation defies models

Remember inflation? The Reserve Bank estimates the annual inflation rate right now is zero. Zip, zilch, nada, none.

Stock Takes: Beingmate buy raises questions

It remains to be seen how, if at all, Fonterra will communicate the performance of its Chinese infant formula investment to farmers and unit holders in its NZX-listed shareholders' fund.

Inside Money: House prices weaken as global property trends converge - survey

New Zealand has zero affordable housing markets, according to the '11th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey'.

Juha Saarinen: Telco aid Ushahidi site for Vanuatu

Volunteers have set up a Ushahidi website to gather and coordinate offers of telecoms equipment for Vanuatu.

Robyn Pearce: Seize the moment

If we take the time to be present in the moment, we expand time – we have more of it.

Brent Sheather: University degrees - choose wisely

The lesson seems to be, today more than ever, when considering university education: choose carefully if employment is your objective.

Mary Holm: Provincial town trends can change

Selling up to rent could leave you high and dry if prices firm and you want to get back into the market, writes Mary Holm.

Diana Clement: Love at first byte, but no sure profit from collecting

Collectibles are subject to the laws of supply and demand. They can provide some protection from inflation, but aren't the best hedge around, writes Diana Clement.

Brian Gaynor: Buffett's words of wisdom

Octogenarian billionaire investor says ambitions have no finish line, writes Brian Gaynor.

Jock Anderson's Caseload: How the judge thanked a chum

CaseLoad's coverage of the stellar career of a dashing celebrity judge was graciously acknowledged recently.

John Drinnan: No Spark in Henry's new show

Leading telecommunications company Spark actively considered becoming the cornerstone sponsor of the new Paul Henry breakfast show, but has pulled out, writes John Drinnan.

Brian Fallow: Trade disputes not so clear-cut

As people turned out to march against the Trans-Pacific Partnership last weekend, one of the issues exercising them was "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS).

Stock Takes: Full disclosure ... months later

Inside Money: Bonanza! How banks cash in on KiwiSaver

If banks wanted to adopt a theme song for KiwiSaver it would have to be the song from Bonanza.