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KiwiSaver: Oz super can be accessed in hard times

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.

Liam Dann: Don't let bad apples ruin new boom

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.

Brian Gaynor: Abano chairman a 'bear hug' survivor

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

Stock Takes: Profit vs. growth in tech IPOs

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

John Drinnan: News - TVNZ doesn't get it

Television New Zealand is adamant the scrapping of up to 12 journalists' jobs because of cuts at 20/20 is not linked to an expensive makeover, writes John Drinnan.

Inside Money: Public Trust shuts funds as trustee market reshuffles

Brian Fallow: Anti-rort law hits forest good guys

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.

Inside Money: Index love drives Russell tilt

KiwiSaver: Moving funds across the Tasman tricky

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

Inside Money: Capital punishment relief can ease pain for KiwiSavers

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".

Liam Dann: National needs to dish up comfort

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.

Brian Gaynor: Refining shareholder faces unequal battle

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

Brian Fallow: The sceptics' case on Labour's plan

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: Key pulls chain on Crusher Collins

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."

Inside Money: Retirement outcomes - Australia jumps five years ahead of NZ

Liam Dann: US will be silver bullet for NZ dollar

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.

Inside Money: Keep KiwiSaver tidy - why it doesn't need messing with

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

Brian Fallow: Labour's plan a subtly blunt instrument

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.