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February 2017
16 Feb 2017 Volatility leads to tighter lending environment
16 Feb 2017 Fraud charges for development project
15 Feb 2017 ASB pulls pricing lever on home loans
15 Feb 2017 ASB happy with Aegis
15 Feb 2017 Regional stars' sales plummet: TSB raises rates
15 Feb 2017 Regional stars' sales plummet
15 Feb 2017 'Sales and advice' one of FMA's risk priorities
14 Feb 2017 Urban Development Authorities on the way
14 Feb 2017 First thoughts on a new adviser association
14 Feb 2017 Slow growth for Auckland rents – B&T
14 Feb 2017 NZX platform gains momentum
14 Feb 2017 A few little changes today: House prices fall further
14 Feb 2017 Lack of awareness on AML
14 Feb 2017 More Kiwis take out health insurance
14 Feb 2017 Fund manager finalists revealed
14 Feb 2017 Super City's prices drop further
13 Feb 2017 Is that really advice?
13 Feb 2017 Court rules against Unitary Plan zoning appeals
13 Feb 2017 Supply just one market driver
13 Feb 2017 ANZ reverses trend
13 Feb 2017 Retirement Income Group gets former finance minister on its board
13 Feb 2017 Financial Advice feedback 'vast'
13 Feb 2017 Australian fund manager opens doors to NZ
11 Feb 2017 More clarification needed on tenant damage
10 Feb 2017 Banks to clamp down on cashbacks
10 Feb 2017 Tenant damage ruling overturned
10 Feb 2017 Debt-to-income ratios on hold...for now
10 Feb 2017 Top 30 suburbs with undervalued houses
10 Feb 2017 Sovereign launches loyalty programme
10 Feb 2017 IRD signals GST-free fees
10 Feb 2017 Banks of the future may offer customers less choice
09 Feb 2017 Suncorp hails life brands' growth
09 Feb 2017 Quotemonster moves to the cloud
09 Feb 2017 DTIs not needed right now - RBNZ
09 Feb 2017 Falling consent woes
09 Feb 2017 Sovereign appoints distribution boss
09 Feb 2017 AMP boosts profit, promises evolution
09 Feb 2017 OCR hike expectations premature
09 Feb 2017 What the RB governor said
09 Feb 2017 Reserve Bank makes its first big OCR announcement of the year
09 Feb 2017 Consider pre- and post-retirement advice
09 Feb 2017 OCR hike expectations premature
09 Feb 2017 What the RB governor said
08 Feb 2017 Adviser in court
08 Feb 2017 DTIs cost benefit analysis ordered
08 Feb 2017 Socially responsible investing (SRI) - Part One: the thinking behind SRI
08 Feb 2017 FMA warns on AML, won't name and shame
08 Feb 2017 Ponzi scheme alleged
08 Feb 2017 Uncertainty over future RBNZ policy
08 Feb 2017 Questions over future RBNZ policy
08 Feb 2017 Britannia launches new scheme
08 Feb 2017 Rising rent trend nationwide
07 Feb 2017 Reserve Bank Governor not seeking another term
07 Feb 2017 Reserve Bank Governor not seeking another term
07 Feb 2017 Quiet start to 2017
07 Feb 2017 FMA faced conduct criticism
06 Feb 2017 Consilium Platform grows
03 Feb 2017 Quiet start to 2017 for Super City
03 Feb 2017 China's High Stakes Tennis Match
03 Feb 2017 OCR cut not expected
03 Feb 2017 Westpac's turn
03 Feb 2017 Industry stalwart quits
03 Feb 2017 Simplicity's growth fund posts early success
03 Feb 2017 Sunny prospects, rising rates
03 Feb 2017 Investing in holiday hot spots
02 Feb 2017 Flipping not what it used to be
02 Feb 2017 Conduct guide not 'one rule for all'
02 Feb 2017 Holiday investments
02 Feb 2017 Floating higher
02 Feb 2017 What will 'Trumpflation' do for you?
02 Feb 2017 NZ needs clearer fintech strategy
01 Feb 2017 Law firm turns peer-to-peer lender
01 Feb 2017 Plus4 welcomes new adviser
01 Feb 2017 Changing of the hot market guard
01 Feb 2017 House prices hit new records
01 Feb 2017 No relief in demand pressures
01 Feb 2017 Super City bucks trend
01 Feb 2017 Hunter Hall International says it's 'business as usual'
January 2017
31 Jan 2017 No relief in demand pressures
31 Jan 2017 Quiet on the investor lending front
31 Jan 2017 Changes today
30 Jan 2017 Financial Advice NZ forums to tackle details
27 Jan 2017 Demand for planning change
27 Jan 2017 FAA review number two on new Minister's list
27 Jan 2017 Navigating shaky ground
27 Jan 2017 Navigating shaky ground
26 Jan 2017 Partners gets a new chairman
26 Jan 2017 Demand for planning change
26 Jan 2017 Govt deadline for earthquake risk masonry repair
26 Jan 2017 No quick solution to housing boom
26 Jan 2017 Client-first may be too big an ask for biggest players
25 Jan 2017 Lawyer converts lending business
25 Jan 2017 Setting trauma sums insured
25 Jan 2017 Subsidy boosts don’t mean rent hikes
25 Jan 2017 More hikes on the heel of recent ones
24 Jan 2017 OCR hike to come - later
24 Jan 2017 Supply is key to boom end
24 Jan 2017 Bad fish
24 Jan 2017 $50 million fills new PIE Fund
24 Jan 2017 New addition to the Partners team
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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