CaseLoad is confident his public interest mission to reveal New Zealand's best and worst judges will come up trumps.

Public relations is back in the news, with controversy over Iain Rennie and the State Services Commission's "loose" handling of the press conference for departing Cera boss Roger Sutton.

The latest Briefing to the Incoming Minister from the Earthquake Commission is a revealing document.

Over the next two years the government and its agents will be reviewing the Financial Advisors Act 2008 (FAA).

Changes to the country's payment system have been profound and New Zealand moves closer to a cashless society, says the Reserve Bank.

Graham McGregor shares insights from business expert Michael Katz about focussing on a niche in your marketing.

It's good news if you're in your 30s but not so good if you're over 50 according to earnings data from Statistics New Zealand.

The film Hip Hop-eration pushes perceptions of retirement in the right direction.

The free trade deal announced with South Korea is extremely good news for a number of our export industries, writes Liam Dann.

I want to see a change of attitude in the press towards ageing Kiwis. We are tagged the greedy generation.

'Did you see that Countdown is selling insurance?" a friend emailed last week. My initial response was: "There's nothing new in that."

Tech blogger Juha Saarinen raises questions about the chief censor eyeing Slingshot over access to unclassified material.

It's shaping up to be another bumper year for the NZ sharemarket, with the NZX 50 up more than 14pc and trading at record levels.

TVNZ and MediaWorks programme launches over the past fortnight have set the scene for reality TV clashes next year, writes John Drinnan.

Jock Anderson is questioning why the identity of the NZ judge with the highest rate of jailing drink drivers will not be revealed.

Germany has come to be seen as the miser among major economic powers, saving too much of its enviable income and spending too little. Germans, naturally, do not see it that way.

No NZ-based funds make the Towers Watson 500 largest asset managers but Fisher Funds, with about US$4.5b under management is close.

Herald tech blogger Juha Saarinen looks at Spark's new roaming plans and gets his hands on an iMac Retina 5K monitor.

A just-released study found Polish angels expected returns of 34 per cent on their investments - the highest of all.

As we all build our own financial houses and get them in order, they need to be resilient when things happen.

What we can learn from our experienced counterparts in the US about futures and options trading.

New Zealand has had a lucky break. We have come through a phase of rapid economic growth without generating any serious spike in inflation.

It's time the Reserve Bank found a way to rein in New Zealand's biggest landlords, writes Bernard Hickey.

I've failed. It would appear that personal finance journalists' budgets are a bit like builders' houses. Never quite sorted out.

October was a crazy month for financial markets.

Gosh, that was a baptism by fire. I remember the day, in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash, when the Brierley share price dropped below $2 - down from more than $5 just a few weeks before.

NZ Super has taken direct control of the almost $260m in local equities formerly managed on its behalf by AMP Capital.