Jock Anderson is questioning why the identity of the NZ judge with the highest rate of jailing drink drivers will not be revealed.

TVNZ and MediaWorks programme launches over the past fortnight have set the scene for reality TV clashes next year, writes John Drinnan.

Germany has come to be seen as the miser among major economic powers, saving too much of its enviable income and spending too little. Germans, naturally, do not see it that way.

If I were running Mercury, I'd regard people like myself as perfect customers, writes Brian Rudman.

Here's the challenge for Prime Minister and Tourism Minister John Key when he hosts President Xi Jinping in New Zealand next week.

No NZ-based funds make the Towers Watson 500 largest asset managers but Fisher Funds, with about US$4.5b under management is close.

Herald tech blogger Juha Saarinen looks at Spark's new roaming plans and gets his hands on an iMac Retina 5K monitor.

A just-released study found Polish angels expected returns of 34 per cent on their investments - the highest of all.

New Zealand has had a lucky break. We have come through a phase of rapid economic growth without generating any serious spike in inflation.

It's time the Reserve Bank found a way to rein in New Zealand's biggest landlords, writes Bernard Hickey.

I've failed. It would appear that personal finance journalists' budgets are a bit like builders' houses. Never quite sorted out.

October was a crazy month for financial markets.

Gosh, that was a baptism by fire. I remember the day, in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash, when the Brierley share price dropped below $2 - down from more than $5 just a few weeks before.

NZ Super has taken direct control of the almost $260m in local equities formerly managed on its behalf by AMP Capital.

Having a mobile phone account in New Zealand has become quite a bit less of a hassle than it was just a few years ago.

How to put together a NZ fixed interest portfolio by focusing on the investment strategies typically employed by large institutional investors.

Heightened tensions between the world's two superpowers will test the diplomatic skills of Trade Minister Tim Groser who arrives in Beijing before John Key for the formal Apec leaders meeting.

Christchurch is progressing far too slowly. FESTA suggests a smart way forward to bring life back into the city.

There is a simple creative thinking system that you might like to use to increase your sales fast. It's called the 20 idea method.

I am changing jobs and my new employer is exempt from automatically signing up employees to KiwiSaver as they have their own super scheme, while also offering KiwiSaver.

With more than 50 years' trading under his belt, US trading legend Larry Pesavento has learned a few things about the markets.

Digital disruption was the hot topic at the Institute of Finance Professionals (INFINZ) conference last week, writes Liam Dann.

Auckland Council's report on its transport future is a stark reminder about how the low-inflation landscape is changing everything, writes Bernard Hickey.

Getting a mortgage is much harder than it was before the global financial crisis. No longer will banks lend willy-nilly.

Australian investors have become excited about health insurance. The enthusiasm is over the privatisation of Medibank Private, Australia's largest health insurer.

A lawyer who misspelled the name of the trial judge incurs the wrath Justice Wylie and complaints against judges on the decline in this week's Caseload.

The subscription video-on-demand service Neon is the brightest light in the new Sky TV product lineup announced last week. The new service will offer movies, and TV shows such as Girls, Fargo and True Blood.