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.

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

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

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.

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

Having a mobile phone account in New Zealand has become quite a bit less of a hassle than it was just a few years ago.

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.

How to put together a NZ fixed interest portfolio by focusing on the investment strategies typically employed by large institutional investors.

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.

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

Auckland Council's report on its transport future is a stark reminder about how the low-inflation landscape is changing everything, writes Bernard Hickey.

Getting a mortgage is much harder than it was before the global financial crisis. No longer will banks lend willy-nilly.

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.