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February 2018
22 Feb 2018 Lending criteria to ease, rates to rise
22 Feb 2018 NZ Super Fund: Returns will fall
22 Feb 2018 ANZ tightens lending controls following fraud case
22 Feb 2018 Employment growth gets credit for insurance increase
22 Feb 2018 Lifetime, Camelot may join forces
21 Feb 2018 NZ Super Fund drops carbon investments
21 Feb 2018 Ageing population behind reverse mortgage rise, says Heartland
21 Feb 2018 People + technology: better together
21 Feb 2018 Housing risks to peak in 2018
21 Feb 2018 Greater flexibility for earthquake fund
21 Feb 2018 Don't ignore volatility: Milford
21 Feb 2018 Lack of prospectus costs adviser insurance claim
21 Feb 2018 Financial Advice NZ CEO: Dodds vs Severn?
20 Feb 2018 Morningstar finalists announced
20 Feb 2018 China's Phantom Slowdown
20 Feb 2018 New leading 5-year rate; Bagrie is back
20 Feb 2018 Price expectations hit new low
20 Feb 2018 FMA concerned at AFA disclosure
19 Feb 2018 Partners Life sponsors exhibition
19 Feb 2018 NZX reports FUM lift
19 Feb 2018 Throwing out the rulebook
19 Feb 2018 Big opportunity for advisers: Mercer
16 Feb 2018 Century 21 appoints Home Loans GM
16 Feb 2018 Get ready for downturn - Bagrie
16 Feb 2018 Getting to Know: Nick Stewart
16 Feb 2018 Barry Read's IDS to merge with Strategi
16 Feb 2018 One-year term gets more interesting; Compliance firms merge
16 Feb 2018 Strategi and IDS merge
16 Feb 2018 GRTV: No bull like an old bull
16 Feb 2018 Foreign investment vital for NZ companies
16 Feb 2018 Who'll still be standing in 12 months' time?
15 Feb 2018 Extension to bright line test on the way
15 Feb 2018 Don’t count on the housing market recovery
15 Feb 2018 Blackwell eyes gap in market with new funding line
15 Feb 2018 Don’t count on the housing market recovery
15 Feb 2018 Super Fund appoints acting chief executive
15 Feb 2018 Advisers get automation boost
14 Feb 2018 Pathfinder bolsters responsible investment capability
14 Feb 2018 Quality mark plan raises CFP questions
13 Feb 2018 Stocktake offers no solutions
13 Feb 2018 ANZ gets aggressive
13 Feb 2018 Advice penalties increase
12 Feb 2018 Harbour adds to board
12 Feb 2018 Tenancy law reform needed: housing stocktake
12 Feb 2018 Legg Mason launches fund
12 Feb 2018 Westpac follows BNZ near the top of the table
12 Feb 2018 What’s driving the market?
12 Feb 2018 How to run an effective approved provider list in 5 steps
12 Feb 2018 Code working group's next steps
12 Feb 2018 Dispute schemes: Fees are fair
09 Feb 2018 ETF gets big boost
09 Feb 2018 Prison sentence for mortgage fraudster
09 Feb 2018 Trustees Executors shareholders bought out
09 Feb 2018 Vested outsourcing - How outsourcing is meant to be
09 Feb 2018 SuperCity values on the rise
09 Feb 2018 Market wobble highlights value of advice
09 Feb 2018 BNZ puts out competitive one-year rate
08 Feb 2018 Share appoints advisers
08 Feb 2018 Low interest rates set to continue
08 Feb 2018 What the Reserve Bank said today
08 Feb 2018 OCR unchanged: The Reserve Bank has spoken
08 Feb 2018 Adviser numbers could drop 50%: Moore
08 Feb 2018 CFP numbers grow
07 Feb 2018 MPM appoints new sales manager
07 Feb 2018 Magellan buys a fund manager
07 Feb 2018 Westpac shaves one-year rate
07 Feb 2018 Financial Advice NZ clarifies priorities
07 Feb 2018 Markets wobble - what next?
07 Feb 2018 Reassessing Capital rental squeeze
05 Feb 2018 Will the OCR move this week? Check out what economists think
05 Feb 2018 Slow start for Auckland
05 Feb 2018 Hot in Queenstown
05 Feb 2018 Advisers have role to boost confidence
02 Feb 2018 OCR holding pattern to continue
02 Feb 2018 Getting to Know: Trevor Slater
02 Feb 2018 Slow, halting growth path for consents
02 Feb 2018 Migration tide continues to turn
02 Feb 2018 Rethinking retirement assumptions
02 Feb 2018 Advisers would welcome well-known UDC buyer
01 Feb 2018 F&P stops deposits
01 Feb 2018 AMP changes outlook
01 Feb 2018 No go for rent controls
01 Feb 2018 BNZ changes adviser commission model
01 Feb 2018 Cooler days for former hot spots
01 Feb 2018 BNZ move puts pressure on other banks
01 Feb 2018 Time's up for admin fees: Morningstar
January 2018
31 Jan 2018 Rental squeeze to intensify
31 Jan 2018 Investor loans low; AI arrives for a mortgage adviser
31 Jan 2018 OCR increase pushed out
31 Jan 2018 Insurance bosses poorly prepared for change: Naylor
31 Jan 2018 FMA has eye on conflicted conduct
30 Jan 2018 Advisers to get development guidance
30 Jan 2018 New low for investor mortgage share
30 Jan 2018 Client-first rule softened - why?
29 Jan 2018 Making the right call
26 Jan 2018 Sovereign appoints tech boss
26 Jan 2018 Falling affordability the norm
26 Jan 2018 Ups and downs from ASB today
26 Jan 2018 New Zealand values most stretched in world
25 Jan 2018 Auckland property gains halved in two years
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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.
3 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