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November 2017
16 Nov 2017 ANZ KiwiSaver gets top awards...again
16 Nov 2017 What to do with $100 million
16 Nov 2017 Next stop: Innovation
16 Nov 2017 Fiducian offers something a bit different
16 Nov 2017 Why India and Tech funds count
16 Nov 2017 Auckland adviser joins Plus4 Insurance Group
16 Nov 2017 FMA focus on financial advice
16 Nov 2017 Massive RV increase for Auckland
15 Nov 2017 Report, not court action, for Goldman Sachs
15 Nov 2017 Moving with the times
15 Nov 2017 ANZ cuts two rates
15 Nov 2017 Economic outlook still positive: ASB
15 Nov 2017 National median reaches record high
14 Nov 2017 New look; BNZ rolls out electronic lodgement
14 Nov 2017 What next for KiwiSaver
14 Nov 2017 October results a mixed bag
13 Nov 2017 BNZ first bank to market with online lodgement tool
13 Nov 2017 Advisers could do better by women: AMP
10 Nov 2017 The Wrap: Has FSC launched a pre-emptive strike on the new adviser association?
10 Nov 2017 ANZ keeping OnePath
10 Nov 2017 FMA: Financial services changing fast
09 Nov 2017 A bank's view on mortgage advisers
09 Nov 2017 Sunny MPS surprises some
09 Nov 2017 wbc
09 Nov 2017 LVR restrictions to be reviewed
09 Nov 2017 Fear and the financial plan
09 Nov 2017 What the Governor said today
09 Nov 2017 RBNZ OCR announcement
09 Nov 2017 Quality mark questions
09 Nov 2017 Price expectations heading downward
09 Nov 2017 Sunny MPS a surprise for some
08 Nov 2017 Email address update for Vodafone users
08 Nov 2017 Westpac says advisers important, but...
08 Nov 2017 Partners Life appoints additional independent director
08 Nov 2017 TSB's Kevin Murphy joins the bank CEO exodus
08 Nov 2017 All eyes are on the Reserve Bank and interest rates
08 Nov 2017 Look to Asia for yield
08 Nov 2017 Reserve Bank changes 'not radical'
08 Nov 2017 Bitcoin: From $700 to $7000 in a year
08 Nov 2017 Warmer weather heats up housing market
07 Nov 2017 When price and value diverge
07 Nov 2017 Sovereign boost commissions; nib offers a new model
07 Nov 2017 What next for KiwiSaver
07 Nov 2017 nib marks five years
07 Nov 2017 Time to get rates back to normal
07 Nov 2017 nib marks five years
07 Nov 2017 Target on advisers outside associations
06 Nov 2017 Time for Normalisation?
06 Nov 2017 New government hasn’t panicked market
03 Nov 2017 Avanti head of ops up for big award
03 Nov 2017 The Wrap: Minister acknowledges small firms
03 Nov 2017 The importance of mortgage advice
03 Nov 2017 Advisers save BNZ's market share
03 Nov 2017 Getting to Know: Janet Natta
03 Nov 2017 What's going to happen with the OCR next week?
03 Nov 2017 OCR stable . . . for now
03 Nov 2017 Market wobbles 'signify need for active management'
02 Nov 2017 RESIMAC offering to refund first month of loan P&I
02 Nov 2017 BNZ boss does a job swap
02 Nov 2017 First month P&I free offer launched
02 Nov 2017 Investors search for income
02 Nov 2017 Auckland values start to slide
01 Nov 2017 Mortgage advisers key players in credit union’s success
01 Nov 2017 Responsible investing missing the mark: White paper
01 Nov 2017 Fidelity Life looks to accelerate growth with new capital
01 Nov 2017 Sargon Capital hiring
01 Nov 2017 Pie Funds launches 'alternative' option
October 2017
31 Oct 2017 Fidelity Life gets $100 million injection
31 Oct 2017 KiwiSaver fees: Paying for performance
31 Oct 2017 Fisher Funds: Industry should pull together
31 Oct 2017 [WEBINAR] Intelligent underwriting tool for Advisers
31 Oct 2017 Faafoi: I'll listen to concerns
31 Oct 2017 New investors and property speculators likely to suffer under new rules
31 Oct 2017 Healthy Homes Guarantee bill to be fast tracked
30 Oct 2017 Have your say on Fintech
30 Oct 2017 Leverage up your KiwiSaver fund
30 Oct 2017 Equities versus Bonds?
30 Oct 2017 Going for growth
30 Oct 2017 Strong growth in Hawke’s Bay
30 Oct 2017 Kiwibank cuts mid and long term rates
30 Oct 2017 Cost of investing 'too high'
29 Oct 2017 nib gets its latest rating report card on its performance
27 Oct 2017 Getting to Know: Nigel Scott
27 Oct 2017 The Wrap: Deadlines for changes clearer (maybe)
27 Oct 2017 Smartshares hits $2b FUM
27 Oct 2017 KiwiSaver fees and risk; Fisher Funds’ future
27 Oct 2017 Introducing Good Returns TV
27 Oct 2017 KiwiSaver: Next crunch could be tougher
26 Oct 2017 Commerce Commission: No issues for Sovereign
26 Oct 2017 Kepa, The Advisers Institute, reveals new partner
26 Oct 2017 PAA AGM cancelled due to lack of interest
26 Oct 2017 Change is coming
26 Oct 2017 Financial Advice New Zealand launch date set
25 Oct 2017 ANZ: No more repayment holidays
25 Oct 2017 Twyford takes the reins
25 Oct 2017 Mortgage-funded property purchases dropping
25 Oct 2017 Mortgage Express boosts Wellington team
25 Oct 2017 Your new boss revealed
25 Oct 2017 Westpac meets the market with two-year rate
25 Oct 2017 Russell rolls out low carbon fund
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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