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Get Sorted: $375 on my mind

Why it pays to remember the new NZ Super rate.

Debbie Mayo-Smith: How you get complete satisfaction from a day's work

Christopher Niesche: German giant puts squeeze on competitors

German retailing giant Aldi has brought a new supermarket experience to Australian shoppers.

Liam Dann: Taxing of online purchases may be unpopular but it's a fair call

John Key's decision to weigh in on the debate about taxing of foreign online purchases seemed to come out of left field last week.

Bernard Hickey: Taxing times in the cloud

Bernard Hickey writes: John Key grappled this week with one of the toughest tasks any modern government has to deal with - how to tax the new economy.

Brian Gaynor: Confidence helping our economy power ahead

The December quarter 2014 gross domestic product statistics, released this week, show the economy was a top performer last year.

Mary Holm: Early KiwiSaver start looks well ahead

The main negative of KiwiSaver for kids is that the money is tied up until they buy a first home or retire, writes Mary Holm.

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.

KiwiSaver: Land legitimate use of first-home funds

If my husband and I purchase land using our KiwiSaver funds, can someone else build the house for us to live in or does the title of the house need to be in our names?

$220m of new work planned

Auckland's rapidly expanding economy has prompted the city's biggest private developer to announce $220 million of new work.

Inside Money: Investment products cross the digital divide

Get Sorted: Anchors away

We get hooked on less-important costs – they loom larger in our minds than they really should.

Debbie Mayo-Smith: 10 powerful persuasive presentation tips

Here are 10 tips to save you time and to help you get significantly better results for your written and visual communications.

Takeover bid challenges Telstra's crown

Almost no one outside his inner circle knows what David Teoh looks like.

Liam Dann: Plenty of practice with dairy safety issues

This time, with the threat made by some nasty individual to poison baby formula with 1080, it certainly seems like Government and industry efforts have been much better co-ordinated.

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.