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March 2017
31 Mar 2017 Top 10 value adding renovation tips
31 Mar 2017 HSBC's turn today
31 Mar 2017 Risk based pricing for Co-op Bank personal loans
31 Mar 2017 Getting to Know: Michael Dowling
31 Mar 2017 ASIC review calls for commission overhaul
31 Mar 2017 Flat line in consents continues
30 Mar 2017 Eagerly awaited meth standard delayed
30 Mar 2017 New fire levy rates announced
30 Mar 2017 Thursday news in brief
30 Mar 2017 Synergy launches SRI portfolios
30 Mar 2017 Young women take up advice posts
29 Mar 2017 Market slowdown different this time
29 Mar 2017 Revamp planning system, end crisis
29 Mar 2017 SBS raises floating rate
29 Mar 2017 FARs - where's the accountability?
28 Mar 2017 AIA offers bolt-on cancer drug cover
28 Mar 2017 Investor confidence remains high across most of NZ
28 Mar 2017 No submission but Financial Advice NZ 'active' on new rules
28 Mar 2017 Older people priced out of insurance
27 Mar 2017 NZ Funds drops Wellington investment
27 Mar 2017 OCR predictions; Mortgage adviser survey
27 Mar 2017 Responsible Investing Part Two: implications for everyone in financial markets
27 Mar 2017 More AFAs and Govt eyeing ways to keep them
27 Mar 2017 New cash rules 'no big deal for advisers'
27 Mar 2017 McEwan gets top Massey honour
24 Mar 2017 Want to develop the new code?
24 Mar 2017 AMP offers zero fees
24 Mar 2017 Address Auckland infrastructure issues
24 Mar 2017 AIA appoints Golden Boots as global ambassador
24 Mar 2017 Tenant magnetism: top 10 tips
24 Mar 2017 What keeps mortgage advisers awake at night?
24 Mar 2017 Friday news in brief
24 Mar 2017 PIE Funds reopens soft-closed fund
24 Mar 2017 Getting to Know: Rosemary Hassan
23 Mar 2017 Law change won't redraw boundaries
23 Mar 2017 Deadline needed for clean default schemes: Greens
23 Mar 2017 Partners gets an upgrade from AM Best
23 Mar 2017 BNZ adopts ethical screen on investments
23 Mar 2017 Reaction: OCR - 'Nothing to see here'
23 Mar 2017 OCR decision: 'Nothing to see here'
23 Mar 2017 OCR left on hold: Here's why
23 Mar 2017 What the RB governor said
23 Mar 2017 OCR left on hold: Here's why
23 Mar 2017 JBWere appoints adviser
23 Mar 2017 Dodds: All Blacks must be better than club rugby
23 Mar 2017 Government 'suffocating' peer-to-peer
23 Mar 2017 Ethical fund set for ASX wants Kiwi money
22 Mar 2017 All quiet in lead up to tomorrow's OCR announcement
22 Mar 2017 Generate adds senior portfolio manager
22 Mar 2017 MBIE: Tell us what's better than FAR
22 Mar 2017 Bright line test dents flipping
21 Mar 2017 Migration driver powers on
21 Mar 2017 Improve urban development in NZ - OECD
21 Mar 2017 AIA New Zealand appoints new CEO
21 Mar 2017 KiwiSaver transfer lags a concern
21 Mar 2017 HFANZ: Health costs need attention, too
21 Mar 2017 AMP Capital drops tobacco
20 Mar 2017 Newpark appoints national sales manager
20 Mar 2017 Fidelity adds sales boss
20 Mar 2017 Three rises from SBS
20 Mar 2017 Getting to grips with body corporates
19 Mar 2017 Future returns may be half what investors used to: Singh
19 Mar 2017 First landlord conviction under new tenancy law
17 Mar 2017 Next to no chance of OCR cut
17 Mar 2017 Bold move equals big success
17 Mar 2017 Friday news in brief
17 Mar 2017 FMA files charges over insurance policies
17 Mar 2017 ANZ makes just one change
17 Mar 2017 No monitoring team, no plan for AFAs: FMA
17 Mar 2017 Rent for “typical” NZ house hits all-time high
16 Mar 2017 New fire regs costly, complex for investors
16 Mar 2017 Fed lifts interest rate
16 Mar 2017 Code Committee voices objections
16 Mar 2017 Timing key for contrarian investing
15 Mar 2017 Give tenants greater security - TOP
15 Mar 2017 Agents to 'bid' for new property listings
15 Mar 2017 Negative gearing to go...under Labour
15 Mar 2017 Labour: Support for regulation change
15 Mar 2017 Decline in price growth optimism
14 Mar 2017 Negative gearing to go under Labour
14 Mar 2017 Let's get these adviser rules right
14 Mar 2017 TSB raises rates
14 Mar 2017 White takes top AMP prize again
14 Mar 2017 Clients' retirement can be ruined by one bad year
13 Mar 2017 Hunter Hall to tell shareholders to back merger
13 Mar 2017 Are you being double-taxed?
13 Mar 2017 Auckland house prices down - again
13 Mar 2017 Nikko appointments new Head of Product and Operations
13 Mar 2017 Trump & The Outlook US Profits
13 Mar 2017 Warminger's trial shows traders' purpose important
13 Mar 2017 They don’t start out caring, making them care is our job
13 Mar 2017 Market flat line continues
10 Mar 2017 What have we learnt this week?
10 Mar 2017 Bridging the finance gap
10 Mar 2017 QROPS providers surprised by tax change
10 Mar 2017 Consumers 'deserve clarity'
10 Mar 2017 REAA gets tough on flipping
09 Mar 2017 Smaller options drive February rebound
09 Mar 2017 Apartments lead the way for Christchurch
09 Mar 2017 Bringing clarity to meth drug haze
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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