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January 2024
19 Jan 2024 SEC approval of bitcoin ETFs makes crypto trading easier and more secure: Koura Wealth
18 Jan 2024 NZ sharemarket dips for the fourth day in a row
18 Jan 2024 Avanti gets new CEO;DTIs on investment property don’t make sense
18 Jan 2024 DTIs on investment property don’t make sense
17 Jan 2024 a2 Milk rises as NZ sharemarket remains flat
17 Jan 2024 Avanti gets new CEO
17 Jan 2024 RBNZ to give early steer on economy; 5th annual TMM Better Business Conference
17 Jan 2024 RBNZ to give surprisingly early steer on economy
17 Jan 2024 Fin Advice NZ appoints new CEO
17 Jan 2024 [GRTV] Two main challenges see $3 billion annual premium opportunity go begging
16 Jan 2024 NZ sharemarket inches into positive territory on flat trading
16 Jan 2024 OCR cuts - this year or next; ASB outlined five key risks of 2024
16 Jan 2024 Plenty of twists and turns to come
16 Jan 2024 AIA kicks off footie campaign
16 Jan 2024 OCR cuts - this year or next?
16 Jan 2024 Amplifi expects more $2m to $20m acquisitions
15 Jan 2024 NZ sharemarket drifts down in holiday mode
15 Jan 2024 Defensive yield stocks provide best return: Forsyth Barr
15 Jan 2024 Lending deals heat up; Kiwibank and TSB rates change
15 Jan 2024 Lending deals heat up
15 Jan 2024 Lifetime springboards off $1b AUM
12 Jan 2024 NZ sharemarket ends week in positive territory but volumes still light
12 Jan 2024 Faafoi steps into insurance CEO role
12 Jan 2024 SME FAP challenges can be overcome
11 Jan 2024 Late turnaround for New Zealand sharemarket
11 Jan 2024 FAP challenges can be overcome; Co-operative Bank Home Loan Rate change
10 Jan 2024 NZ sharemarket fall reflects worried investors
10 Jan 2024 ASB says overall household debt servicing costs have yet to peak
10 Jan 2024 Increasing debt costs to hit budgets by $100 plus a week
09 Jan 2024 NZ shares gain as strong Summerset sales buoy retirement stocks
09 Jan 2024 Expect more economic carnage
08 Jan 2024 NZ shares fall as rate cut question weighs
08 Jan 2024 Amplifi Group managing director departs
08 Jan 2024 Does NZ really need DTIs?
08 Jan 2024 Uncertainty over DTI effects
08 Jan 2024 [GRTV] Tony Vidler: Advisers seek freedom in new world order
05 Jan 2024 NZ market peters out in slow start to year
05 Jan 2024 Late rally leaves market on positive note
05 Jan 2024 Bigger remit sees FMA numbers swell
04 Jan 2024 Simplicity starts year with a fee cut
03 Jan 2024 NZ sharemarket catches Wall Street’s New Year hangover
December 2023
31 Dec 2023 Coming into land in 2024
29 Dec 2023 5th worst year for NZX50 in 15 years
29 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket looking to end the year up, despite soft retail data
28 Dec 2023 Expect more mortgagee sales
23 Dec 2023 Wishing you the best
22 Dec 2023 Market closes on sour note from Synlait Milk
22 Dec 2023 Paul Gregory to leave FMA
22 Dec 2023 Three risks we are thinking about for 2024
21 Dec 2023 End-of-year rally for shares continues
21 Dec 2023 Big shake up at NZFSG
21 Dec 2023 Christmas cheer?
21 Dec 2023 Will the 60/40 classic portfolio return to form in 2024?
20 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket dips in wake of govt announcements
20 Dec 2023 Orr fronts up to new Govt: TMM Conference tickets available
20 Dec 2023 FSC cancels major conference
20 Dec 2023 RBNZ: record immigration may mean rates stay high for longer
20 Dec 2023 Liberty sells real estate business
20 Dec 2023 [GRTV] Three to four fund sweet spot with multi manager KiwiSaver
20 Dec 2023 PGI switches unit holders to climate-indexed approach
19 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket firms ahead of mini-budget and economic update
19 Dec 2023 Hard times will get harder next year for mortgage advisers
19 Dec 2023 KiwiSaver will be the most important part of advice
19 Dec 2023 Jarden views investment banking and wealth management as “a dis-synergy”
19 Dec 2023 No waiting – OCR cuts expected next year
18 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket listless on light trade
18 Dec 2023 Fisher Funds partners with NZX Wealth Technologies
18 Dec 2023 Finsure plans an aggressive pitch for NZ mortgage advisers
18 Dec 2023 Listings surge and prices up
18 Dec 2023 New currency-hedged ethical fund from Betashares
18 Dec 2023 Finsure plans an aggressive pitch for NZ mortgage advisers in 2024
15 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket flat but more than $300m changes hands
15 Dec 2023 Ex-mortgage adviser pleads guilty to further dishonesty offences
15 Dec 2023 Former mortgage adviser pleads guilty to further dishonesty offences
15 Dec 2023 Big payday coming for Harbour on top of FirstCape merger
14 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket reaches 14 week high
14 Dec 2023 New Zealand GDP in reverse, OCR cuts may dominate next year
14 Dec 2023 OCR rates cuts should dominate next year
14 Dec 2023 Christchurch FAP cops criticism from the FMA
14 Dec 2023 Jarden, NAB form FirstCape including Harbour
14 Dec 2023 Listed companies beef up retail investor relations with new portal
13 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket rises as Auckland airport shares lift off
13 Dec 2023 Stress on mortgage advisers high
13 Dec 2023 Mortgage advisers more stressed that others
13 Dec 2023 Mounting migration means more demand and pressure
13 Dec 2023 Partners names new CEO to replace Naomi Ballantyne
13 Dec 2023 Asteron sees good growth in employee insurance segment
13 Dec 2023 MDRT
13 Dec 2023 Housing market still at a low ebb despite lift in sales
13 Dec 2023 BIG to govt: the FMA should redirect focus to high-risk areas
12 Dec 2023 Shares dip as investors await US data
12 Dec 2023 Debt-to-income still in the melting pot
12 Dec 2023 Southern Cross fills sales role
12 Dec 2023 Advisers' mental health improves but still concerning
12 Dec 2023 DTIs still in the melting pot
12 Dec 2023 Bond funds added to Kernel suite
11 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket slips as Rakon shares rocket
11 Dec 2023 Animal spirits - global stock markets have closed out their best month in several years, but can the rally continue?
11 Dec 2023 Platinum appoints new chief executive
11 Dec 2023 Hugh Stevens buys the iSelect Uk pensions advice business
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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