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September 2023
05 Sep 2023 NZX 50 hits new low for 2023
05 Sep 2023 House sales rise more than 50% on a year ago
05 Sep 2023 [GRTV] You never write off the Kiwis
04 Sep 2023 SkyCity's share plunge dominates NZ sharemarket
04 Sep 2023 Not a huge market for foreign buyers
04 Sep 2023 Liberty Strengthens Team with Three Key Appointments
04 Sep 2023 Liberty makes three key appointments
04 Sep 2023 NZ Super Fund buys into European infrastructure provider
04 Sep 2023 We may be trusted advisers to our clients, but insurers don't trust us
04 Sep 2023 [GRTV] Advisers can thrive
03 Sep 2023 JMI Wealth appoints two senior advisers
02 Sep 2023 COMMENT: What is Westpac's real profit number?
01 Sep 2023 Auckland airport a bright note in a dull day on the NZ sharemarket
01 Sep 2023 Southern Cross says it told advisers, policyholders of withdrawn benefit
01 Sep 2023 Pepper buys HSBC's NZ home loans book
01 Sep 2023 Non-bank lender buys HSBC's home loan book
01 Sep 2023 BREAKING NEWS: HSBC loan book gets a surprisng new owner: one of the non-banks
01 Sep 2023 Southern Cross drops $60k benefit by stealth: agents
01 Sep 2023 [GRTV] KiwiSaver: a ticket to prosperity that politicians don’t get
August 2023
31 Aug 2023 A bleak August for the sharemarket ends on a slight uplift
31 Aug 2023 Room to improve compliance support in NZ
31 Aug 2023 Finsure sees room to improve compliance support in NZ
31 Aug 2023 Spending on nice to haves rapidly shutting down
31 Aug 2023 Waiting for election day and possible relief
31 Aug 2023 More KiwiSaver enters sin stocks through passive investing
30 Aug 2023 Market flat as property stocks fall on National policy
30 Aug 2023 Easier bank lending v mortgage test rates
30 Aug 2023 Where the FMA is headed
29 Aug 2023 fiddly
29 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket lifts as results brighten investors' mood
29 Aug 2023 NZHL makes appointment to drive growth
29 Aug 2023 Heartland grows its reverse mortgage business
29 Aug 2023 Debt consolidation helps drive Heartland reverse mortgage business
29 Aug 2023 Restoring housing affordability
29 Aug 2023 Heartland's reverse mortgages grow at more than 20%
28 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket lifts on budget cuts and US news
28 Aug 2023 Sub-optimal contributions all round
28 Aug 2023 Mortgage lending make-up revealed
28 Aug 2023 Thoughts on underperformance by an active manager
26 Aug 2023 COMMENT: RBNZ is still capable of producing worthwhile research
25 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket dips despite solid results
25 Aug 2023 [The Wrap] NZers will be left exposed if CoFI is repealed
25 Aug 2023 CEO Bessemer to leave Trustees Executors
25 Aug 2023 NZX Smartshares lifts FUM 29% in six months ended June
25 Aug 2023 Proposed new RTA clause not needed
25 Aug 2023 The role of FAPs in building consumer confidence
24 Aug 2023 High flying Air NZ does not lift the sharemarket
24 Aug 2023 Nikko grows investment team with key appointment
24 Aug 2023 Nikko grows investment team with key appointment
24 Aug 2023 Nikko grows investment team with key appointment
24 Aug 2023 Surge in migration a double edged sword
24 Aug 2023 The fee-for-service model
23 Aug 2023 Ebos leads NZX50 higher for a second day
23 Aug 2023 TAP adds two
23 Aug 2023 More pain; ANZ hikes; TAP hires
23 Aug 2023 Further step to regulation of property managers
23 Aug 2023 More mortgage pain on the horizon
23 Aug 2023 nib NZ expects its insurance to be resilient in the face of rising cost of living
23 Aug 2023 MyFiduciary links up with iwi
22 Aug 2023 Solid results brought an end to days of decline for NZ sharemarket
22 Aug 2023 nib NZ cites rising rates and costs as challenges after lifting profits 36.8%
22 Aug 2023 No way CoFi can stay – National
21 Aug 2023 NZX50 continues to slump despite some upbeat results
21 Aug 2023 Kernel losses mount with growth but break-even is on the horizon
21 Aug 2023 Migration helps housing find a floor
21 Aug 2023 CCCFA rules are now sort of semi-embedded in banks
21 Aug 2023 Loosening CCCFA rules might not be enough
21 Aug 2023 Transitioning an advice business in the 21st century
19 Aug 2023 A new source of business; Nat's KiwiSaver policy nuts
19 Aug 2023 SMEs need more financing but don’t know how to access it
18 Aug 2023 [The Wrap] National's KiwiSaver policy is nuts
18 Aug 2023 Wary investors cast gloom over the NZ sharemarket
18 Aug 2023 Why TAP wants mortgage advisers; Orr tones down behaviour
18 Aug 2023 Asteron Life Claims team acknowledged
18 Aug 2023 Harbour Navigator: Decarbonisation progress – more than hot air?
18 Aug 2023 [DO NOT USE] A big year for medical claims is underway
17 Aug 2023 Skellerup a bright note as NZ sharemarket tumbles
17 Aug 2023 National’s KiwiSaver splitting: innovation or complication?
17 Aug 2023 Expect interest rate hikes
17 Aug 2023 Fund manager diversification: unlocking better risk-adjusted returns in KiwiSaver
17 Aug 2023 National plans to roll back CCCFA and can CoFI
17 Aug 2023 National plans to stop banks’ intrusive questions to borrowers
17 Aug 2023 National floats allowing KiwiSaver splitting
17 Aug 2023 House prices stabilised earlier than RBNZ expected
17 Aug 2023 Reaction to OCR; RBNZ happier than it was before
17 Aug 2023 RBNZ says bank margins are falling on swith to term deposits
16 Aug 2023 NZX 50 dips as Fletcher Building shares slumps
16 Aug 2023 RBNZ expects lower growth and unemployment but higher CPI
16 Aug 2023 OCR remains at 5.50%
16 Aug 2023 BREAKING: Official Cash Rate remains at 5.50%
16 Aug 2023 Holding on to investment property
16 Aug 2023 Survey signals a more ‘dovish’ RBNZ monetary policy statement
16 Aug 2023 ESG pushback nothing new to Super guardians
15 Aug 2023 Life Direct goes into bat for NZ Cricket
15 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket flat as investors await news
15 Aug 2023 New head to take over MFS in September
15 Aug 2023 Lift in sales but prices still declining
15 Aug 2023 Matching rhetoric to reality in values-based investment
15 Aug 2023 Aussie watchdog’s third greenwashing case
14 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket dips despite bright start to earnings season
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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