Money advice often comes with a lashing of snake oil. Those wanting you to follow their advice have an investment to sell. And the advice is tailored to their marketing pitch.

Mary Holm answers your personal finance questions.

Sales pitch can be convincing but too often complicated investments are much riskier than portrayed

The political furore over the partial privatisation of Mighty River Power will put downward pressure on the final price paid for shares in the electricity generator and retailer.

A man arrested in Australia for "significant'' credit card fraud is alleged to have used money fleeced from bank accounts to travel to New Zealand on fake passports.

A Property For Industry investor is waiting for more information on a proposal to almost double the size of the $382.2 million NZX-listed business.

Business editor Liam Dann is stumped as to what possible benefit the rise in the value of his house offers him.

Lynette O'Brien supports intensification of Papatoetoe so long as it is not like the "concrete jungle" of stucco townhouses in Shirley Rd.

Mary Holm answers your investment questions.

IRD has this morning obtained freezing orders over property in a company directed by Paul Webb, a former Dragon's Den judge.

Capital growth has always been an important factor in successful dairy farm investment, but it would be unwise for investors to assume land prices always go up.

Investors could soon be invited to put money into a new fund to buy Auckland residential property.

Two-thirds of the way through the Government's financial year tax revenue is running 6.3 per cent above the same period last year, while spending is flat.

The steady recovery in the commercial and industrial markets of 2012 is expected to increase momentum through 2013, says Bayleys research manager Gerald Rundle.

Gareth Morgan's official personal presence in the KiwiSaver world will not be sadly missed by any of his competitors, writes David Chaplin.

Savers will have to wait until October to find out what the fees and performance returns are for their KiwiSaver schemes.

Sorry, New Zealand - the new KiwiSaver rates aren't the answer to your retirement savings. From Monday, the minimum employee contribution to KiwiSaver will go up to 3 per cent, matched by 3 per cent from employers.