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October 2025
15 Oct 2025 Loosened LVR settings long overdue - adviser
14 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket down 0.5% amid PGW shuffle
14 Oct 2025 [Breaking News] RBNZ to ease LVR restrictions
14 Oct 2025 RBNZ to ease LVR restrictions
14 Oct 2025 FHB's active; Have your say on mortgage advice
14 Oct 2025 FMA appoints new economist a year after last one left
14 Oct 2025 First home buyers take advantage of soft housing market
13 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket starts week down 0.8%
13 Oct 2025 What's holding back first home buyers?
13 Oct 2025 What's the true value of financial advice?
13 Oct 2025 First home buyers stumbling at the own psychological hurdles
13 Oct 2025 Co-payment decision wasn’t made lightly, nib CEO says
11 Oct 2025 Chubb Life appoints new South Island BDM
10 Oct 2025 Focus on 2026: US market momentum and opportunities
10 Oct 2025 NZ stocks retreat from record high, down 0.7%
10 Oct 2025 New mortgage loan terms again yo-yoing
10 Oct 2025 5% is the magic savings number
10 Oct 2025 New mortgage loan terms again yo-yoing
09 Oct 2025 Ryman lifts as NZ sharemarket ends flat after rate‑cut rally fades
09 Oct 2025 Adviser to Adviser advice: Managing those damn emails
09 Oct 2025 Why this ex-insurer leads with health, not life
09 Oct 2025 New rules for meth contaminated houses
09 Oct 2025 FMT legend moves on
09 Oct 2025 More OCR cuts likely; Advisers react to Westpac's trail plans
09 Oct 2025 Not the end of OCR cuts
09 Oct 2025 FANZ to offer AI training for advisers
08 Oct 2025 Reserve Bank of NZ's rate cut lifts sharemarket as high‑yield stocks climb
08 Oct 2025 OCR Cut: What economists said
08 Oct 2025 OCR down 50 points: What the RBNZ said
08 Oct 2025 [BREAKING NEWS] OCR cut to 2.5%
08 Oct 2025 Westpac decision “a bit of a tragedy” - adviser
08 Oct 2025 Decisions on DTIs and LVRs to be in the hands of new RBNZ committee
07 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket up 0.3% despite business confidence drop
07 Oct 2025 ASB to settle class action for more than $135 million
07 Oct 2025 Adviser jailed over theft charges
06 Oct 2025 Southern Cross Health Society fills a vacancy on its board
06 Oct 2025 NZX awaits Wednesday's Official Cash Rate call
06 Oct 2025 Property investors activity back at old levels
06 Oct 2025 Investors well and truly back in the market
05 Oct 2025 The wedge edge for businesses and trusts
05 Oct 2025 10 years; $10 billion
04 Oct 2025 [Your weekend TMM read] Navigating the future of mortgage advice
04 Oct 2025 Navigating the Future of Mortgage Advice
03 Oct 2025 Leaders, property sector helps drive NZ stocks higher
03 Oct 2025 [BREAKING News] Westpac in negotiations to change adviser remuneration
03 Oct 2025 Westpac looks to can trail commissions
03 Oct 2025 Tracey Topp Joins Link Advisory
03 Oct 2025 How low will they go?
03 Oct 2025 How bold will the RBNZ be?
02 Oct 2025 Ryman extends rally to help NZX 50 continue gains
02 Oct 2025 FNZ Asia Pacific gets new chairman
02 Oct 2025 Regulation, competition and credit landscape to be centre stage next month
01 Oct 2025 Medical insurance with guaranteed policy wording: the only suitable option?
01 Oct 2025 Government energy reforms spark NZX rally, Meridian leads gentailer gains
01 Oct 2025 Wealth management firm enters its own retirement
01 Oct 2025 AIA appoints new chief underwriter
September 2025
30 Sep 2025 KFC-owner Restaurant Brands soars as NZX 50 locks in 1.22% gain
30 Sep 2025 nib drops bombshell changes to policies
30 Sep 2025 More claims, more often - Southern Cross releases results
30 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket lifts as Synlait result piques interest
29 Sep 2025 Newcomer appoints head of sales
29 Sep 2025 Fewer borrowers switching lenders
29 Sep 2025 Switching lenders drops back
28 Sep 2025 Twists and turns in FNZ court case
26 Sep 2025 Hallenstein stars as NZ stocks drift lower
25 Sep 2025 First Parent Boost insurance product launched
25 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket falls despite positive Fonterra result
25 Sep 2025 Bad economic times require advisers to act
25 Sep 2025 Time for mortgage advisers to be more hands-on
24 Sep 2025 How can advisers can move beyond the blanket ban approach?
24 Sep 2025 Commercial property: Resilience, recovery, and opportunities ahead
24 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket edges higher despite KMD Brands loss, new RBNZ Governor Anna Breman
24 Sep 2025 Ohh...look at this
23 Sep 2025 Familiar name takes over as Ando CEO
23 Sep 2025 FMA doesn't get what it wants
23 Sep 2025 Kiwi adviser shares take on US mega-conference
23 Sep 2025 NZX sits out tech rally, trades flat
23 Sep 2025 What CPD should should mortgage advisers do?
22 Sep 2025 Plugging the knowledge gap with CPD
22 Sep 2025 Retirement Commissioner to step down
22 Sep 2025 Ebos unwind pulls NZX 50 down 0.68%
22 Sep 2025 Another ex-AIA exec starts new advice business
19 Sep 2025 NZ stocks claw back lost ground to end up 0.8%
19 Sep 2025 Predictions for big OCR drop; FMT adds BDM
19 Sep 2025 How competitive is the KiwiSaver market?
18 Sep 2025 Predictions for big OCR drop next month
18 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket drops after weak GDP data and US Fed rate cut
18 Sep 2025 JB steps back; Households financial position not good
18 Sep 2025 JB steps back at Squirrel
18 Sep 2025 Spending confidence low and likely to fall further
17 Sep 2025 Craigs picks up Hawkes Bay-based advisory firm
17 Sep 2025 Open banking planned for KiwiSaver
17 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket closes flat as investors await US Federal Reserve interest rate decision
17 Sep 2025 What's the best mortgage rate strategy?
17 Sep 2025 Why some mortgage advisers say splitting is good when interest rates are low
17 Sep 2025 FMT adds Christchurch-based BDM
17 Sep 2025 Partners Life hikes premiums again
17 Sep 2025 Veteran adviser says Level 5 standard isn’t good enough
16 Sep 2025 NZX lifts 0.2% as markets wait for US Fed decision
16 Sep 2025 Firms and fundies urge Govt for modern slavery legislation
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Latest Comments
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
As an investor, it is completely unacceptable to me that Total Remuneration continues if compulsion is brought in. It is simply wrong to continue putting downward pressure on salary and wages, particularly for people on minimum wage in a country that aspires to lift wages over time and raise the standard of living for NZers. National will lose my vote as a serious investor if they continue down the Total Remuneration path. No question...
1 week ago David Lawton
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
This is just about the only online space outside of Newstalk ZB facebook comments where speaking out against blatant wage theft by multinationals is considered 'PC'. And yet still we wonder why those pesky younger generations of potential customers wholesale refuse to engage with traditional financial services. Couldn't be because our mindsets are stuck in the 1950s - no, it must be the kids who are wrong.
1 week ago Ross Alexander
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
Murray, yup, agree with you. I see conflict of interests - the bigger the fund size, the more fees collected. Remuneration should be strictly a commercial decision because employers are the ones paying the wages. NOT for some "expert" preference. Well, an employer's budget permit a $100k package, he can pay either a) $88k salary + employer contribute $12k KS, or b) $94k salary of which $6k deducted for KS + employer contribute $6k. Depending how PC you guys want to be, and how much time and taxpayers' money you want to waste arguing about the structure.
1 week ago W K
Health and life insurers out of climate reporting
@ Murray D Weatherston - well said. The climate related disclosure (CRD) requirement for the financial services industry is yet another example of the last Government adding unnecessary cost and complexity to business. Currently banks and insurers have to hire more staff specifically to meet their new climate disclosure requirements and these costs inevitably get past on to customers. The New Zealand consumer continues to be saddled with additional costs due to an avalanche of overregulation much of which has questionable benefit. The only people who seem to be winning from this additional regulation are Wellington bureaucrats and those climate enthusiasts’ who are positioned to make a buck or secure a job. None of New Zealand's biggest climate polluters are associated with the financial services industry. Stats published by the Environmental Protection Authority in 2022 showed the biggest emitters were for milk, petrol, fossil (or natural) gas and meat businesses, with electricity, and steel companies rounding out the top group because of their fossil fuel use. By contrast, many of New Zealand’s biggest employers and profit makers (including banks, vineyards, telcos, healthcare companies and renewable energy providers) didn’t appear in the top climate polluter ranks because their emissions weren’t even high enough to qualify for compulsory reporting. As another reader of Good Returns said last year "I suspect we’ll look back on this climate reporting in years to come, with confusion & questions. Whilst there is no doubt that climate controls are increasingly important, I’m unsure whether the energy, effort & expense in producing these reports are the best use of resources &/or going to make any difference…” I look forward to the Ministry of Regulation reviewing and ultimately deciding to remove climate related disclosures as a compliance requirement for all of the New Zealand financial services industry.
2 weeks ago Simon Rule
KiwiSaver an option for mortgage advisers seeking ongoing income, provider says
Wy would any mortgage or insurance adviser refer their client to a kiwi saver provider/scheme that the owners also own a competing mortgage advisor and insurance company, whom already has a history of growing group schemes and then marketing to those customers directly for their own business entities.
2 weeks ago Valkyrie Vulcan