Kim Savage

The Retirement Commissioner is recommending the goverment urgently review the laws around retirement villages to better protect the elderly.

Higher household costs helped to push consumer prices higher in the past three months.

New Zealand's largest mobile company Vodafone has been sold to local infrastructure investor Infratil and Canadian investment firm Brookfield for $3.4 billion. Audio

The High Court has sided with Inland Revenue in a multi-million dollar tax avoidance case involving high profile businessman Eric Watson's company Cullen Group.

Analysis - Big risk can mean big reward, but everyone knows that if you're going to play a high stakes game then you have to have a plan B or be prepared to suffer the consequences, Kim Savage writes.

Analysis - Some Mainzeal directors are now being held to account, but subcontractors who were left out in the cold when the company went bust still face a long battle to get their money back, writes…

The High Court has ruled collapsed property and construction company Mainzeal traded while insolvent for nine years and has held some of the directors liable for $36 million for letting it happen.

It's the outcome no one wants but the one global business is increasingly preparing for with the Brexit deadline fewer than 40 days away.

Measures designed to protect subcontractors and suppliers' money in a construction company collapse appear to be failing.