So what happens if you want to dump a single amount into your KiwiSaver account when you want to buy your first home? Helen Twose investigates.

We type them in a dozen times a day. Who knew that passwords could help us hit savings goals?

Voters in San Francisco will decide next month whether to tax sodas and other sugary drinks to reduce ailments including obesity and diabetes.

Our son will be studying in Australia for the next few years and will need to borrow money from us for fees, living expenses and so on.

It's a war of data and the smart organisations are using data as their secret weapon," says Michael Whitehead, chief executive of data warehousing specialist WhereScape.

If the house always wins, then the taxman isn't far behind - at least not during the last year - when IRD won almost 85 per cent of the litigation it was involved in.

The sale of van Eyk Advice NZ should be concluded within days, according to the first report to creditors from the administrator of its Australian parent.

Alan Wallace is an accidental property investor, signing a deal to sell a 16ha East Tamaki site for more than $40m after paying $630,000 for the real estate 21 years ago.

Can I still contribute towards KiwiSaver and send money into my KiwiSaver account if I move overseas?

Does anyone not know someone who struggles with money and then turns around and pulls out the latest iPhone 6?

It's a dilemma Auckland financial adviser Hannah McQueen comes across all the time.

Auckland Council will tomorrow release new valuations for more than 220 suburbs across the region for three-yearly review of CVs.

Our son has his 17th birthday in three weeks' time.

New Zealanders are paying some of the highest interest rates in the OECD, our house buyers saddled with the punitive prices due to the regime attempting to stop runaway inflation.

Concerned about potential security risks, the US government is taking a close look at last week's sale of New York's iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel to a Chinese insurance company.

Just 42 seconds into the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) video 'What is money?' the audio dropped out.

It’s Money Week where attention is turning to all things money related. The theme this year is around getting your finances fighting fit.

If you have a few thousand dollars to invest you've probably considered all the usual options: shares, bonds, maybe property.

A loophole allowing MPs to hold millions of dollars worth of undisclosed real estate investments and other assets without declaring them has now been closed.

According to a report, post GFC - a crisis ultimately blamed on excessive leverage - the world hasn't really changed, debt-wise.

NYC's Waldorf Astoria hotel is set to become the biggest prize yet for buyers from China who have been pouring money into US real estate.