'I have just found out that my employer has not been paying my KiwiSaver contributions or employer contributions.' Now what? Helen Twose tells you.

Wouldn't you love to manage your own retirement funds? Instead of handing them over to a KiwiSaver provide, you research and buy the assets, which could include individual equities and even rental properties.

Six years on, the majority of KiwiSaver members remain in the default conservative funds where they were automatically placed on first joining the scheme, writes Blair Turnbull.

I read your interesting recent article on the Welcome Home Loan and believe it might apply to our returning daughter

I read the other day about women hitting retirement with less in the kitty than men.

Lawyer first port of call for grandparent bequests but KiwiSaver offers options for supporting grandchildren, writes Helen Twose.

KiwiSaver funds with higher exposure to shares were the best performers over the September quarter, according to Morningstar.

Editorial: Listening to Winston Peters, you could be forgiven for thinking KiwiSaver was a seriously defective and widely reviled retirement savings vehicle.

Winston Peters says changes to KiwiSaver which would stop it being "a pot of gold’’ for fund managers would be a bottom line in any post election coalition talks.

KiwiSaver has turned out to have been a hugely successful financial product but there are some nasty changes lurking over the horizon, writes Brent Sheather.

Helen Twose looks at the Welcome Home Loan administered by Housing NZ which helps people with modest incomes get a home loan with a small deposit.