I generally have a good understanding of KiwiSaver, in that withdrawing money has to be for your first home and your principal place of residence.

Prime Minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English have revealed a new strategy for the Meridian Energy share offering.

Some people need a hit between the eyes before they'll change their errant financial ways.

Rebuilding internal trust is important as there will be many Fonterra employees dismayed at the affair and the damage it has suffered, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Culture - it's a word that can be filled with meaning or thrown about in a way that means nothing at all.

It's risky policy for a liberal, left-of-centre party because it leaves them open to accusations of xenophobia, writes Liam Dann.

Credit scores are important - guard yours well. A good credit score is essential for getting a mortgage, business finance and perhaps even a job.

The KiwiSaver active versus passive debate has been reignited following recent articles by Diana Clement in the Business Herald, Paul McBeth in the Listener and Rob Stock, the money editor of the Sunday Star-Times, in an Auckland suburban newspaper.

RadioLIVE has dubbed Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee the Minister of No, writes Fran O'Sullivan. It is a label that might just stick after his frank response to Auckland Mayor Len Brown's latest foray into transport funding.

If John Key was genuine in his concern about being disadvantaged relative to property investors he could legislate to reduce the tax advantages, writes Brian Fallow.

Commodities are at the mercy of some unprecedented global trends...

Any traveller who has experienced a glacier-slow wait in an international transit lounge might have some sympathy for American defector Edward Snowden.

Full marks to Synlait bosses Graham Milne and John Penno for hanging tough in the post-global financial crisis environment and going offshore.

"Was it greed or was it just a case of really bad timing?" asks Liam Dann. "Probably the latter, as the Government must have been hoping for a result which would help promote the next three asset sales to New Zealanders."

Judging by Peter Dunne's Twitter feed, he had become obsessed by the agency's wayward behaviour and was very much focused on civil liberties, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Brian Fallow looks at the issues involved in a wholesale electricity market, and whether it is competitive or not.

It remains an area crying out for regulatory oversight in case missteps by smaller players screw the market for our champions, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Since John Key's celebratory mission there in April, there has been a series of difficult and costly issues dogging New Zealand trade with China, writes Liam Dann.

Fonterra would have been startled to wake up yesterday to the Herald's front-page photo of Sir Henry van der Heyden emblazoned with "Don't ever trust them", writes Fran O'Sullivan.

I have a question, that you may or may not be able to answer, as no one else I have spoken with so far has been able to help.

What the assets are worth now depends on the future path of electricity prices and the effect that has on the company's cashflows, writes Brian Fallow.

Your savings invested in a KiwiSaver scheme and any returns generated by those savings are not guaranteed.

As we await another miserly Budget from Bill English we are entitled to wonder whether the Government is overdoing the fiscal discipline, writes Brian Fallow.

A comparison of some recent economic data shows New Zealand outperforming Australia.