
KiwiSaver: First home snag with Australian funds
My husband and I moved back home to New Zealand from Australia in January 2014.
Stories and analysis from The Northern Express Herald.
Our son has special needs and will probably never be employed. He does, however, get a small pension from the government.
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has revealed plans to marshal its employees into a new dedicated KiwiSaver scheme.
A reader writes: Can I withdraw my KiwiSaver funds for a first-home deposit if I want to buy half my partner's house?
Australian research house SuperRatings has released its first analysis of the KiwiSaver market with mostly good marks.
I am a New Zealand permanent resident, and I worked in New Zealand for almost six years but when I moved to Germany at that time I decided to take my private fund from AXA superannuation.
Hoping for an overseas holiday this year? A new car or an emergency fund? Growing the balance in your savings account is harder than it sounds.
One of the FMA's key areas of interest next year will be the world of KiwiSaver.
The NZX-owned KiwiSaver scheme, Smartkiwi, will be closed early next year following the stock exchange's purchase of Superlife.
The only problem with this technically-excellent, thoroughly-executed, thankfully-brief statistical analysis of KiwiSaver is its uselessness.
A reader writes: If my employer includes its contribution as part of a total remuneration package, what happens to the contribution if one opts out of KiwiSaver?
I am changing jobs and my new employer is exempt from automatically signing up employees to KiwiSaver as they have their own super scheme, while also offering KiwiSaver.
So what happens if you want to dump a single amount into your KiwiSaver account when you want to buy your first home? Helen Twose investigates.
Can I still contribute towards KiwiSaver and send money into my KiwiSaver account if I move overseas?
Our son has his 17th birthday in three weeks' time.
After negotiations with the FMA, both Kiwibank and ASB are finally set to kill their respective zombie KiwiSaver schemes.