
Seminars help 'bank of Mum and Dad'
Mortgage loan restrictions are making the "bank of Mum and Dad" so popular that one bank is running seminars on the best way for people to structure the deals.
Mortgage loan restrictions are making the "bank of Mum and Dad" so popular that one bank is running seminars on the best way for people to structure the deals.
NZ could have had a superannuation pot of gold worth $278b by next year had it kept a compulsory savings scheme set up in 1974, a financial industry body claims.
Taxpayers are flocking to websites that promise a tax refund — even if some take up to a quarter of a payout as commission.
Expert analysis and industry rules can help people to avoid tripping up, although no investment is failsafe, writes Mary Holm.
The new age of finance has arrived in the shape of the Financial Markets Conduct Act (FMC), which sets down rules for the fashionable technology-enabled activities of ‘crowd-funding’ and ‘peer-to-peer lending’.
You'd be forgiven for mistaking this for a belated April Fool's joke. An app has launched that makes getting money from the Government a painless online process.
A spokesman for the jailed South Korean developer says "personal" issues should not hinder or harm any of the business interests left behind here.
New Zealand is on a list of the top 10 most searched for countries by Chinese house-hunters, figures compiled from China's largest property search engine reveal.
Q: We are a couple in our early 30s who own a rental house and live in a rental too. We have been paying as much as possible off our mortgage and now find ourselves in a position where we are making a profit (taxable) on the rental property.
Auckland landlords are making more capital gains off their rental properties than those elsewhere, a trend predicted to speed up in the next few years.
It seems that views as to what constitutes the best investment strategy are becoming more polarized.
International investors with a total of US$2 trillion ($2.34 trillion) in funds have put New Zealand in their top-10 list of Asia-Pacific real estate investment targets.
I pay into a standard KiwiSaver scheme (3 per cent me, 2 per cent employer), the ASB KiwiSaver provider.
Choice Hotels, which operates in 40 New Zealand locations, is looking for seven to eight new properties worth $40 million to $50 million this year.
Should you fix your mortgage? This is an important question and if I knew the answer I would tell you, writes Damien Grant.
We're increasingly becoming a nation of renters with less than half of us now owning our own place, Census data shows.
Gold, natural gas and the Kiwi - US dollar: key markets to watch, says Nick McDonald.
The latest Reserve Bank managed fund statistics reinforce two important features of our investment markets.
The New Zealand government's operating deficit was wider than expected in the first seven months of the 2014 financial year, with a smaller tax take than forecast and lower than anticipated tobacco excise duty.
Australia's Future of Financial Advice legislation was intended to create a conflict-free zone.
This is a KiwiSaver aspect I have never seen discussed regarding the scheme reaching its "fruition".
Let's clear one thing up. I am not one of those people who claim that just by 'thinking' positively, you will get what you want.