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September 2019
13 Sep 2019 [The Wrap] The word on good customer outcomes from the top
13 Sep 2019 Embrace blockchain to drive transformation
13 Sep 2019 No need for Royal Commission
13 Sep 2019 Scrub up or ship out
13 Sep 2019 Asteron and Fidelity go head to head for award
13 Sep 2019 Trustees Executors embraces block chain
13 Sep 2019 Sales fall highlights sluggish market
13 Sep 2019 Adviser ordered to pay $1,000 after 'dragging heels'
12 Sep 2019 Booster to list property fund
12 Sep 2019 Z Energy, Synlait crash on earnings downgrades
12 Sep 2019 Harbour takes a cautious approach as downside risks increase
12 Sep 2019 [GRTV] A taste of MDRT Global
12 Sep 2019 Accuro launches mental health tool
12 Sep 2019 Three complaints about advisers
12 Sep 2019 Financial advice reforms may miss the mark
11 Sep 2019 NZ shares sink; rising rates sap demand for yield stocks
11 Sep 2019 [GRTV] Loyal Clients; Happy Clients
11 Sep 2019 Banks raise cheap wholesale funding ahead of Spring mortgage surge
11 Sep 2019 Banks raise cheap wholesale funding ahead of Spring mortgage surge
11 Sep 2019 Changing the game
11 Sep 2019 FSC KiwiSaver overhaul: Boost access to advice
11 Sep 2019 Kiwis face 'trade-off' buying insurance
10 Sep 2019 NZ shares fall in light trading; power companies come off the boil
10 Sep 2019 Sargon signs clients
10 Sep 2019 The willful ignorance of a miopic point of view
10 Sep 2019 Reset policies will prompt price rises - Westpac
10 Sep 2019 Banks face headwinds; Select Home Loans proves popular
10 Sep 2019 NZ banks face headwinds
10 Sep 2019 Advice rules created 'two-tier' market, working group says
09 Sep 2019 Shares snap six-day gain; A2 falls
09 Sep 2019 Change tax regime for KiwiSaver, share trading - capital markets review
09 Sep 2019 White-label loan product takes off; Property investor cops $400k fine
09 Sep 2019 Bluestone's white-label loans take off with NZFSG
09 Sep 2019 Ronovationz faces $400k fine for price fixing
09 Sep 2019 nib enters ASX 100
07 Sep 2019 Financial Advice NZ backs Money Week
06 Sep 2019 NZX50 climbs 4.1% in week; yield demand reigns
06 Sep 2019 What Aucklanders value in property
06 Sep 2019 ANZ makes major change to its OCR forecast
06 Sep 2019 Anti-commission advocate appointed to FMA board
06 Sep 2019 Expect three more OCR cuts – ANZ
06 Sep 2019 AIA appoints new board member
06 Sep 2019 [The Wrap] Let's not follow what's happening in Australia
06 Sep 2019 RBNZ says don't believe what banks say about capital
05 Sep 2019 Findex takes on New Zealand wealth market
05 Sep 2019 Low deposits won’t lead to mortgage free for all
05 Sep 2019 Shares march higher as low rates keep yield attractive
05 Sep 2019 Partners Life axes volume-based incentives
05 Sep 2019 COMMENT: How much is too much
05 Sep 2019 Kloogh no longer a financial adviser
04 Sep 2019 Sharemarket cracks another milestone; Vista, Pushpay recover
04 Sep 2019 Rent-to-buy scheme key to KiwiBuild II
04 Sep 2019 Govt makes KiwiBuild loans easier, drops 100,000 homes target
04 Sep 2019 Govt makes KiwiBuild loans easier, drops 100,000 homes target
04 Sep 2019 IFSO backs adviser in misselling claim
04 Sep 2019 Fidelity Life appoints adviser professional development support
04 Sep 2019 Negative bank rates – yeah right!
04 Sep 2019 Decline in value growth slows
03 Sep 2019 Fraud bureau not right strategy for personal risk market
03 Sep 2019 NZ shares outperform Asia; Contact, Meridian in demand
03 Sep 2019 No momentum in Auckland sales
03 Sep 2019 Hints of market resurgence
03 Sep 2019 Taking the carbon out of KiwiSaver
03 Sep 2019 Kloogh companies liquidated
02 Sep 2019 [The Wrap] Regulation is a time for advisers to be bold and reinvent themselves
02 Sep 2019 NZ shares gain; yield stocks Contact, Meridian still in favour
02 Sep 2019 Which KiwiSaver funds will weather the currency war?
02 Sep 2019 Super Fund gets RI rating
02 Sep 2019 Kepa appoints compliance consultant
02 Sep 2019 HSBC sets new low rate
02 Sep 2019 HSBC sets a new low benchmark
02 Sep 2019 Pie Funds reopens soft-closed funds
02 Sep 2019 Mortgage servicing rate cuts
August 2019
30 Aug 2019 Vista recovers in heavy day of trading
30 Aug 2019 Spreads between lenders widens
30 Aug 2019 Mike Pero appoints three advisers
30 Aug 2019 Long term fixed rates dip below 4%
30 Aug 2019 More work needs to be done on policy ownership
30 Aug 2019 Gisborne grows up
30 Aug 2019 InvestNow opens platform to advisers
30 Aug 2019 [Obituary] Mike Loftus
30 Aug 2019 Commercial property focus for new non-bank lender
29 Aug 2019 Forsyth Barr acquires advice firm
29 Aug 2019 Investors savage Vista after it misses earnings target
29 Aug 2019 Kiwibank's shareholders green-light capital-hungry growth plans
29 Aug 2019 AMP credit rating cut
29 Aug 2019 Build-to-rent momentum grows
29 Aug 2019 Prospa increases loan size
29 Aug 2019 Prospa NZ outstrips Australia
29 Aug 2019 Ambitious Australian trustee firm makes kiwi push
28 Aug 2019 AIA says Vitality is flying as another insurer tries to shoot it down
28 Aug 2019 Sargon launches trustee platform, plans advice
28 Aug 2019 NZ shares rise; F&P Healthcare jumps on modest earnings upgrade
28 Aug 2019 [OPINION] We are not alone with Monetary Policy: Orr
28 Aug 2019 Slashing OCR has worked, economist says
28 Aug 2019 Helping the self-employed get mortgages
28 Aug 2019 COMMENT: The dangers of neglecting code compliance certificates
28 Aug 2019 Partners: Nominated beneficiaries too much of a grey area
28 Aug 2019 Financial advisers want KiwiSaver to get SMarT
27 Aug 2019 NZ shares recover; demand for yield boosts Meridian, Spark
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Latest Comments
When a night is not a night
Nice commentary. I agree it's pretty pedantic to look at hours rather than nights. And I have had claims where hours rather than nights have been used to determine payment of this benefit. My experience with this has been mixed, with some insurers considering discharge and readmission to be the same admission paying a contiguous claim. With others being a bit pedantic. Given my knowledge and history with product changes, I can only conclude that someone has complained about the definition(s) which have driven changes tightening the response. End of the day the insurers are under pressure with claims, and we have seen this benefit removed with Southern Cross and moved into an optional area with Partners Life. So it's no longer a given there will be a response from policies for this either.
2 weeks ago Jon-Paul Hale
FNZ to build advice platform for FirstCape
That seems an awfully long-winded way to say FirstCape will be adopting its newly acquired Consilium FNZ platform. The’ve done the heavy lifting so why not acknowledge that. Or are they really going to start from scratch?
2 weeks ago John Milner
Stobo resigns FMA chair after investigation
@Amused – I wouldn’t feel too bad about the use your comment was put to. And the fact Stobo wasn’t on the Indi board at the time of his resignation doesn’t make the conflict less problematic. I have no view on whether Stobo fell victim to a “witch hunt". I’m not sure that Barrass’ view represents a change, on her part, of how she viewed the Indi conflict. It is possible (as I am suggesting) that the FMA never had a proper view of the conflict in the first place. Liam Mason’s initial assessment that the conflict was unremarkable was flawed, in my opinion. "Good and effective management of conflicts of interest is particularly important for a Crown regulator. If conflicts are not recognised, acknowledged and managed appropriately, they can quickly undermine the integrity of officials, the organisation’s decisions, and public and business confidence in the integrity of the organisation." (Kirsty P McDonald ONZM QC, 2022) The identification and management of the Stobo/Indi conflict needs to be understood in the context of shortcomings identified in the report (cited above) following a 2022 independent review into the FMA’s management of the Rob Everett/Booster COI. There’s a theme emerging. I wonder what the Stobo/Indi Conflict Mitigation Record shows (if anything). There’s nothing in Aldred KC’s report that would suggest this was provided to her. Liam Mason emailed Stobo on 12th July 2025, expressing concern that Indi was using Stobo as a marketing prop. This suggests mitigation strategies were not put in place for this entirely foreseeable risk back at the time the conflict was first disclosed.
2 weeks ago Paul Flood
Sharesies opens advice offering to New Zealand investors
Why did they add cash and bonds into there High Growth portfolio? I'm so confused.
3 weeks ago my realname
Stobo resigns FMA chair after investigation
@ paul flood – thanks for making me aware of this. I stand by my comment that nobody in a regulatory role should ever be sitting on the board of a provider which that regulator is charged with monitoring. Do I feel a bit stink now that my comment on Good Returns was used by the FMA as part of a “witch hunt” to remove Mr Stobo as FMA Chair? Of course I do. Mr Stobo was not sitting on the board of any financial services provider monitored by the FMA at the time he offered his resignation to Commerce Minister Cameron Brewer. Interesting how things changed below from Mr Stobo’s initial appointment as the FMA chair “The FMA has a rigorous conflicts of interest process for board members to identify potential interests and to ensure that board members comply with their obligations under the Crown Entities Act. The FMA maintains a list of members’ interests. This is updated in advance of each board meeting and board members confirm its accuracy at the meeting. Mr Stobo’s interest in The Independent Mortgage Company (Indi) has been disclosed under this process.” To - “When I interviewed Ms Barrass (FMA chief executive) she told me that she considered the role with Indi was “heavily conflicted” and that the matter was a serious one for the FMA because We [the FMA] need to be beyond reproach because the inappropriate management of conflicts is not just a matter of regulatory requirements”. None of the smears against Mr Stobo have been upheld in this report by Wendy Aldred KC. Questions need to be asked by our politicians as to what has happened here. It appears people employed at Government agencies in Wellington who have a different political view to that of the public service should be cautious now when expressing their opinions. Political neutrality is sighted by KC Wendy Aldred as to why Mr Stobo should resign and yet she is part of Health Coalition Aotearoa which is a a coalition of member organisations committed to closing the health prevention gap in Aotearoa by advocating for Te Tiriti-led, evidence-based, policies. Does anyone think that Wendy Aldred KC can be considered “politically neutral” with her report prepared for the FMA?
3 weeks ago Simon Rule