20 January 2012
New Zealand economist and philanthropist Gareth Morgan will pump the proceeds from the sale of his $1.5billion funds management company to Kiwibank back into charity.
16 January 2012
A Treasury report to Finance Minister Bill English reveals officials doubted whether a $300 million one-off auto-enrolment in KiwiSaver would deliver a worthwhile boost to national savings. Treasury initially advised against the Government's plan because of the small impact it would have on savings.
13 December 2011
The first independent research to look past headline returns and try to predict the future prospects of KiwiSaver nest eggs concluded the big funds offered ''pretty good'' value for money.
9 December 2011
AMP Services (N.Z) Limited and Gareth Morgan Investments were the big winners at last night's 2011 Workplace Savings NZ Communication Awards held in Wellington. Read more here.
19 November 2011
Workplace Savings New Zealand head Bruce Kerr calls the day all workers join KiwiSaver "miracle day".
17 November 2011
A big majority of chief executives want KiwiSaver made compulsory. Seventy-seven per cent of respondents to the Herald's CEO survey are in favour of compulsion, which is a key Labour Party election plank.
14 November 2011
This election will be the second held since KiwiSaver's inception in 2007, and once again the scheme has become a political football. As voters prepare to head to the polling stations on November 26, three major parties have some very different ideas about where the government savings programme should be heading.
7 November 2011
The Green Party’s plan to encouraging savings by reducing the high costs of saving.
25 October 2011
Kiwis, you've been outed. All this time you've been playing it cool, you've been keeping a sneaky eye on your retirement prospects.
19 October 2011
KiwiSaver auto-enrolment could be costly and time-consuming for default providers of the savings scheme and frustrating for workers, says the chairman of superannuation industry body Workplace Savings NZ.