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August 2019
27 Aug 2019 ANZ sets new low; Are property investors back?
27 Aug 2019 The staggered rise of big city rents
27 Aug 2019 BNZ's wealth shakeup
26 Aug 2019 Trump's trade tweets drive NZ shares lower; Freightways caution weighs
26 Aug 2019 Are property investors returning to the market?
26 Aug 2019 Working out the value of your business
26 Aug 2019 AIA appoints leader for IFA channel
26 Aug 2019 Take your seat at table, advisers told
26 Aug 2019 Housing market confidence growing
26 Aug 2019 Astute finally confirms Campbell's departure; SBS cuts rates
26 Aug 2019 rwc
26 Aug 2019 Old school digital advice failed advisers, but there are new options emerging
26 Aug 2019 AIA Vitality Fittest City report: Let’s get moving
26 Aug 2019 Campbell leaves Astute Financial
25 Aug 2019 Faafoi says some commissions will be banned
24 Aug 2019 Hobson gets back onboard NZX platform
23 Aug 2019 [The Wrap] Introducing the new type of financial adviser (Not)
23 Aug 2019 Yield stocks sold off; Skellerup drops
23 Aug 2019 Fred Dodds acknowledged for his services to financial advisers
23 Aug 2019 Kiwibank's annual profit eases as fee income drops
23 Aug 2019 Relationship break-up not cause to end tenancy, tribunal says
23 Aug 2019 Top mortgage advisers named; HSBC moves rates
23 Aug 2019 Three leading ladies awarded
23 Aug 2019 Financial Advice NZ adds members, focuses on getting voice heard
22 Aug 2019 NZ shares gain as Ebos, Air NZ earnings meet expectations
22 Aug 2019 Anderson launches new fund options
21 Aug 2019 Big Wednesday: A2 squeezed over margins; Fletcher and Spark shine
21 Aug 2019 New policy to address “failing” cities
21 Aug 2019 Low rates boost NZ’s housing affordability
21 Aug 2019 New BDMs at Resimac, Bluestone, FMT
21 Aug 2019 Two new BDMs for First Mortgage Trust
21 Aug 2019 Bluestone brings in new BDM
21 Aug 2019 New BDM for Resimac
21 Aug 2019 Harvesting Black Swans
21 Aug 2019 nib NZ has risk and culture review on the radar
20 Aug 2019 Napier Port has promising debut; NZ shares rise
20 Aug 2019 A tale of two cities prices
20 Aug 2019 Latest on Harmoney legal case; new guidelines for landlords
20 Aug 2019 [GRTV] Why a four day week is good; Fears about markets
20 Aug 2019 KiwiSaver providers question loss-making assumptions
19 Aug 2019 NZ shares gain as tweaked earnings outlooks boost A2, weigh on Fletcher
19 Aug 2019 It's mostly up for health insurer nib
19 Aug 2019 FoxPlan: Killick hands over
19 Aug 2019 Comcom loses bid to derail Harmoney appeal
19 Aug 2019 FMA secures guilty verdict
19 Aug 2019 New privacy guidelines welcomed
19 Aug 2019 Will rates fall much further?
19 Aug 2019 AIA's shot at a TV ad
19 Aug 2019 ASB: Rates may not get much lower
19 Aug 2019 [GRTV] Why a four day week is good; Fears about markets
18 Aug 2019 Wealthpoint makes appointments
16 Aug 2019 [The Wrap] What the heck is a good customer outcome?
16 Aug 2019 NZ shares fall as global uncertainty weighs on utilities; Sky gains on M&A
16 Aug 2019 Hobson Wealth latest to enter KiwiSaver with a robo solution
16 Aug 2019 Development focus for new Hamilton-Auckland partnership
16 Aug 2019 nib aims to make advisers' lives easier with online tool
16 Aug 2019 Kiwibank fixed rate cuts; Avanti debt milestone
16 Aug 2019 Avanti reaches debt milestone
15 Aug 2019 Asteron Life links up with health insurance companies
15 Aug 2019 NZ shares join global rout as bond markets stoke recession fears
15 Aug 2019 Harmoney appoints new CEO
15 Aug 2019 FMA ponders advice exemptions
15 Aug 2019 Regulators' group announces new vision
15 Aug 2019 Share markets shake
15 Aug 2019 Perpetual Guardian has a new general counsel
15 Aug 2019 Heartland Group lifts annual profit 9% on reverse mortage and other lending growth
15 Aug 2019 More rate cuts at ASB; ANZ concerned about risk-aversion
14 Aug 2019 Heathcote adds another manager to its portfolio
14 Aug 2019 Lower and lower domestic interest rates
14 Aug 2019 Reporting season on track; Sky City signals growth ahead
14 Aug 2019 ANZ's Elliott voices concerns over credit controls
14 Aug 2019 Ross victims get green light to sue ANZ
14 Aug 2019 FMA insurance response next month
14 Aug 2019 Westpac,TSB, ASB rate cuts; Q Advisor Group sets out licensing stance; Avanti Christchurch role
14 Aug 2019 What’s more important for KiwiSaver members? Net returns or fees?
13 Aug 2019 NZ shares join global lull as investors remain nervous
13 Aug 2019 Stronger market on the cards
13 Aug 2019 BNZ and SBS rate cuts; DTIs on Reserve Bank's radar; Opportunity at Avanti
13 Aug 2019 Q Advisor Group sets out licensing stance
13 Aug 2019 Advisers need to negotiate lower fees
12 Aug 2019 Chipping away at bank KiwiSaver funds
12 Aug 2019 NZ shares flatline in light trading; Fonterra sinks after dropping dividend
12 Aug 2019 DTIs still on the Reserve Bank’s radar
12 Aug 2019 ANZ, BNZ rate cuts; FMA warns on licensing
12 Aug 2019 Chicken Little and the falling sky
12 Aug 2019 Advisers call for servicing test rethink for borrowers
12 Aug 2019 FMA boss tells RFAs the clock is ticking and they better hurry up
11 Aug 2019 Regulation of custody sector remains undecided
09 Aug 2019 [The Wrap] AMP lays out a bold future plan. Will it work?
09 Aug 2019 Sharemarket edge lower as investors await earnings season
09 Aug 2019 AMP completes capital raising
09 Aug 2019 Southern Cross recognised
09 Aug 2019 New Southern Cross CEO; Nelson Building Society rate cut
09 Aug 2019 Improvements in affordability nationwide
09 Aug 2019 Southern Cross names new CEO
08 Aug 2019 Advisers' ESG consideration blew our minds: Morningstar
08 Aug 2019 New Zealanders overexposed to New Zealand: Kiwi Wealth
08 Aug 2019 Kathmandu produces 'ripper' result
08 Aug 2019 Prospa raises $45 million for NZ funding
08 Aug 2019 Rate cut bonanza begins
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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