Money

The week the Ideas team looks at the notion and practice of Ethical Investment speaking with: the New Zealand executive chairman of the social lender Prometheus Finance and director of the Sustainable… Audio

Ideas takes a look at insurance, its history, how premiums are calculated and the types of disputes that arise between policy holders and their insurance companies. Audio

This week the Bank of Real Solutions, a web-based initiative that aims to share the stories of grassroots projects in the hope that they will inspire similar initiatives to spring up. Audio

Raising capital isn't easy or cheap for any of us. But it's more difficult and more expensive for some than for others. Not for profit enterprises struggle to convince mainstream banks to lend them… Audio

Nick Powdthavee, behavioural economist and author of The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset, which discusses the new science of happiness economics. Audio

The candidates outline their views on rates. Audio

Insight looks at the extent of rorts and questionable behaviour in the way pokie money is being used. Audio

Emmanuelle Javoy the Managing director of microfinance rating agency Planet Rating explains what microfinance is and how it makes a difference in some of the poorest areas of the planet. Audio

How does society determine what people are paid? Does that pay genuinely reflect the true value of what those workers are contributing to society? This week Ideas examines a report by The New… Audio

New Zealanders have been bagged as bad savers but is that fair? Audio

Co-operatives banks - the solution to the slump? Audio