
Graham MacGregor: How to attract ideal new clients
COMMENT: Everyone is not your ideal client.
COMMENT: Everyone is not your ideal client.
COMMENT: As the world's economic bogeyman low inflation has been swamped this year by global political turmoil.
The bargains might seem nice, but low prices are not great news.
COMMENT: You? Me? The government? Have your say.
COMMENT: HomeStart grant, which can provide a boost of $3000-$20,000 depending on your circumstances, has different hurdles to the KiwiSaver withdrawal.
COMMENT: Why are politicians of all colours so afraid? And whose interests are they protecting when they say such falls are "crazy"?
COMMENT: There are lessons to be learned from the Dick Smith saga.
COMMENT: Investing in instalments can have advantages over making a one-off deposit.
COMMENT: Knowing the difference between wants and needs among nuggets of advice.
COMMENT: Landlords must be feeling pretty unloved these days.
If it's 4pm on a Tuesday, you won't find Competenz chief executive Fiona Kingsford in the office.
COMMENT: Running the eight-page China Watch PR/propaganda sheet (take your pick) seems self-destructive for this respected media brand.
COMMENT: Malcolm Turnbull's narrow win in Australia ought to put fellow political brahmin John Key on notice.
COMMENT: The practical impacts of this new legislation will be significant and will ripple across the entire supply chain.
COMMENT: Markets are full of surprises - especially for commentators and experts who think they know it all.
COMMENT: Do you find GPS technology sometimes useful but also distracting and limiting?
COMMENT: What can you think of that is a welcomed gift, and yet is also a piece of blatant marketing?
COMMENT: KiwiSaver can be accessed for buying a first home, but one of the eligibility criteria is that the house or land must be in New Zealand.
Comment: John Key and Graeme Wheeler should fix the housing crisis - not point the finger at each other.
COMMENT: Potential calamities like Brexit are said to occur every eight years.
COMMENT: NZ household wealth figures show the booming residential property market is a major contributor to inequality.
COMMENT: Renovating kitchens, bathrooms best but don't spend too much.
"Don't panic" has been the overall tone, as would be expected, but a wide range of views have been expressed.
COMMENT: Emergencies are a fact of life with children - so anticipate them.
COMMENT: It is a pretty crap society that pulls the ladder up on younger people or those less well off just because they want to preserve their new unearned wealth.
COMMENT: Five ways to quickly improve profits in your retail shop.
COMMENT: Looking for a financial plan but not sure where to begin? Try this
COMMENT: A selection of ways you can use your smartphone camera.
COMMENT: New Zealand's economic history matches the line chart for our net migration flow through the years, writes Liam Dann.