2 Aug 2025

Tariffs and Kiwisaver - Liam Dann

From Saturday Morning, 8:43 am on 2 August 2025
Despite being 80 plus years old, some 'superagers' have youthful brains.

Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER

New Zealanders have withdrawn more than $1.3 billion from KiwiSaver for hardship in the past five years. The growing withdrawals could result in over $5b missing from retirement funds by 2045.  

New Zealand is being hit with 15% tariffs, and Stats NZ is set to release unemployment rates next week.   

New Zealand Herald business editor-at-large Liam Dann is here to break it all down. 

Liam Dann

Liam Dann Photo: Eleanor Dann