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.

Heightened tensions between the world's two superpowers will test the diplomatic skills of Trade Minister Tim Groser who arrives in Beijing before John Key for the formal Apec leaders meeting.

Strategies to help you commit to finishing tasks and avoid interrupting the flow of your activities.

Christchurch is progressing far too slowly. FESTA suggests a smart way forward to bring life back into the city.

There is a simple creative thinking system that you might like to use to increase your sales fast. It's called the 20 idea method.

I am changing jobs and my new employer is exempt from automatically signing up employees to KiwiSaver as they have their own super scheme, while also offering KiwiSaver.

With more than 50 years' trading under his belt, US trading legend Larry Pesavento has learned a few things about the markets.

Digital disruption was the hot topic at the Institute of Finance Professionals (INFINZ) conference last week, writes Liam Dann.

Australian investors have become excited about health insurance. The enthusiasm is over the privatisation of Medibank Private, Australia's largest health insurer.

A lawyer who misspelled the name of the trial judge incurs the wrath Justice Wylie and complaints against judges on the decline in this week's Caseload.

The subscription video-on-demand service Neon is the brightest light in the new Sky TV product lineup announced last week. The new service will offer movies, and TV shows such as Girls, Fargo and True Blood.

Software developer Orion Health's initial public offer prospectus, which was registered on Tuesday, contains a lot of impressive numbers.

Where has inflation gone and does it have a return ticket? Little wonder the Reserve Bank has just left interest rates on hold and the markets expect no change in the official cash rate for another year or so.

Tech is part of everyone's life in Japan, but doesn't appear to have supplanted their livelihood, even for menial tasks.

With people living longer one of the biggest worries for soon-to-be-retired folks is how to make their savings stretch out for the long-haul.

Is inflation dead? The annual rate has fallen to 1 per cent, dangerously close to dropping outside the Reserve Bank's target band.