Last minute changes to the investment tax reforms have been denounced as pandering to the concerns of one company – and one political party.

It’s been another week of home loan rate increases, with most of the banks increasing their rates for fixed terms of two years or more.

Research shows that one in three mothers have no life insurance cover to protect their family if the worst were to happen.

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Standard & Poor's says the recent appointment of receivers to New Zealand-based finance company National Finance 2000 (not rated) shows that parts of New Zealand's non-bank financial institutions sector exhibit high risk.

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The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has appointed Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) to a multi-strategy mandate.

Provincial Finance says it will report a loss for the year ending March 31, and it has stopped taking in new investments.

Standard and Poor's has reaffirmed UDC Finance's AA- long term credit ratings.

The University of Auckland Business School has established a new Retirement Policy and Research Centre aimed at looking at the social and economic pressures caused by the coming retirement of baby boomers.