ING Life has made a raft of changes to its risk products including some rationalistation, improved benefits for existing policies, along with something new. The new product is small business income cover for one or two person businesses.

A mortgage broker who offers to sell her business for "$1 or near offer" is a sign that all is not well in the industry. Just how tough is it out there and how are businesses coping?

While much attention has been on bond offers from Marac and South Canterbury Finance, one other has been seeking Capital too.

There are signs emerging that KiwiSaver is making an increasing number of people think about retirement issues.

Auckland

Dunedin

Westpac is to distribute a new retail investment product from the World Bank, the world's largest development organisation.

Christchurch

NZX-listed Dominion Finance (DFG) is the latest finance company to run into trouble.

Wellington

Strong support from across the investment sector has resulted in South Canterbury Finance's $125 million offer of Secured Bonds, including $50 million of oversubscriptions, closing fully subscribed.

This week's featured mortgage rate graphs show how far home loan rates have come back in the past couple of weeks.

Geneva Finance has reported a $7.88 million loss for the year to March 31 blaming a raft of factors for the result.