Borrowing against your equity is some of the cheapest money out there (as opposed to credit cards), writes Tom Hartmann. But here are the pitfalls.

How many accountants will soon be out of a job because they are not tech-oriented, or open to redesigning their business?

Australian retail billionaire Solomon Lew has declared war on his Government's failure to charge GST for overseas goods bought online.

Cloud computing is built on data centres which are sprouting out of the ground like weeds at the moment around the world.

The world is going digital, but MediaWorks and NZME. are still spending millions of dollars on ye olde radio frequencies.

Martin Aircraft Company has extended its IPO for two weeks as the firm negotiates with a potential investor that could become a cornerstone shareholder.

They say what goes around comes around, and so it is for lawyer Boon Gunn Hong whose excessive suspension has been quashed on appeal.

Everyone's poring over the Commerce Commission's draft decision on ye olde copper phone line network. And no one's happy.

Labour Leader Andrew Little has staked out valuable new territory with his announcement of a Future Work Commission.

One of the big trends today is for businesses to use mainly digital technology to communicate with customers and potential customers.

How did we react to the erosion of democratic rights by attack bloggers and the rise of executive power? Mostly with a collective shrug, writes Chris Barton.

A reader writes: I intend to settle a cash sum on each of my grandchildren on my demise. What fish hooks exist if I place a lump sum in a KiwiSaver account for each?

On his 60th birthday Woody Allen is supposed to have joked that "practically a third of my life is over". Optimistic maybe, but illustrative - as Patrick Nolan explains.

Leverage in trading is a good tool for those who use it properly. It is even better than good, it can be great.

In the online world a new adage that applies - If you pay for something, it’s the product. But if it’s free, you are the product.

The Financial Markets Authority's consultation paper on corporate governance is timely.

Falling oil prices have been one of the biggest stories in financial circles over recent weeks.

As a society, how did we allow residential property to become just another investment asset class?

All I want for Christmas is an Ebola emergency kit. That's not because I think I'm at risk of catching the disease.

Pumpkin Patch shares hit another record low yesterday as investors continued to punish the company after a dark annual meeting.

To suspicious eyes, it starts to look as if the Govt is in ideological thrall to the 1980s dogmas that the smaller the state the better, and whatever the problem, the solution is a market, writes Brian Fallow.

The year is approaching its end with uncertainty over the future shape of the two big media corporates - MediaWorks, owner of TV3, and NZME., owner of the Herald,

The only problem with this technically-excellent, thoroughly-executed, thankfully-brief statistical analysis of KiwiSaver is its uselessness.

There's a common belief that women are better at multi-tasking than guys. It's only partly true.

SkyTV, Spark's Lightbox and Quickflix, pretend in public they're not concerned about Netflix arriving, but that's just bluster, writes Juha Saarinen.

FOFA is a serious law, introduced by the previous Labor government after a series of scandals hit Australia's financial planning industry.