The Greens are open to negotiating offsetting subsidies to emissions-intensive, trade-exposed firms whose survival might be threatened by their proposed carbon tax.

Financial Markets Authority chief executive Rob Everett has yet to be inducted into the club, writes Fran O'Sullivan. That's why he brings a refreshing outsider's view to the task of being New Zealand's markets watchdog.

If I were to transfer my entire superannuation from Australia and at a later date I fell into financial hardship for health reasons, would I be able to withdraw my funds with KiwiSaver.

Reports that companies are being turned away and told they are not ready for market listing are heartening, writes Liam Dann. Certainly there is no upside for investment banks in being associated with a turkey of a float.

If the template the selectors are seeking at No8 is best demonstrated by Read then Vito looks the best bet to mirror that style of play, writes Wynne Gray.

The takeover offer versus scheme of arrangement controversy is in the spotlight again.

It was a tale of two very different technology companies when Gentrack and Serko announced listing plans on Monday.

Under its equivalent of the cover of darkness Parliament has legislated to stop a rort by a subset of a subset of participants in the emissions trading scheme.

I have been emailing ASB KiwiSaver scheme and also other providers in Sydney, but only faced "no responses".

One of NZ’s largest stand-alone employer superannuation scheme, the $230 million plus ANZ National Bank Staff fund is winding up.

You can have too much of a good thing, as the saying goes, and right now it is a live question whether immigration is one of those good things, writes Brian Fallow.

Fran O'Sullivan asks, "Why is it that NZ still does not have comprehensive statistics to inform governments when it comes to making critical policy decisions on foreign ownership?"

I have a KiwiSaver account, and am very happy with the gradual accumulation of savings.

Budget 2014 lifts government spending by $1.5 billion or 2 per cent in the coming year but that will represent a cut in real per capita terms, writes Brian Fallow.

The FSC has reiterated its call for preferential KiwiSaver tax rates, describing the current regime as "most punitive tax regime for retirement saving that we have been able to find in the developed world".

This is a Budget that needs to be familiar and reassuring, writes Liam Dann. National will be banking on English reminding middle NZ that we've survived the GFC in good shape.

A hopelessly one-sided conflict will be renewed in Ruakaka, Northland, on Thursday.

The contrary view to Labour's plan for monetary policy and savings goes broadly like this: It is a cute idea but it won't work, writes Brian Fallow.

Fran O'Sullivan asks, "What pushed Key to the point where he applied the choke chain to the Cabinet's Rottweiler? Pity Key didn't yank the chain earlier."

There's a lot of debate about a silver bullet solution for New Zealand's high dollar, writes Liam Dann. The good news is there is one. The bad news is that we have no control over it.

Labour’s proposal to transform KiwiSaver into a direct instrument of monetary policy has generated acres of comment.

What we got from Labour's finance spokesman David Parker on Tuesday was a much broader economic policy than that would imply, writes Brian Fallow.

New Zealand is well positioned to capitalise on the largely favourable global trends.

If Labour finance spokesman David Parker is proposing a job swap with the Reserve Bank Governor he should say so, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Australia’s A$1.7 trillion super system has come in for another mauling, this time at the hands of “independent think tank”, the Grattan Institute.