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.

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

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.

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.

If I were running Mercury, I'd regard people like myself as perfect customers, writes Brian Rudman.

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.

October was a crazy month for financial markets.

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.

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.

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