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June 2023
26 Jun 2023 Interest rates drop might be further away
26 Jun 2023 Household finances in a vice
26 Jun 2023 [OPINION]Housing crisis makes growth all about ‘up-and-out’ not ‘up-or-out’
26 Jun 2023 Are investors missing out on once in a generation opportunities?
24 Jun 2023 Culture and conduct not part of bank competition study
24 Jun 2023 FMA outlines how it will monitor climate reporting in draft guidance on record keeping
24 Jun 2023 NZX appoints Smartshares chief executive
23 Jun 2023 NZX50 drifts as investors chew over week’s highs and lows
23 Jun 2023 Advices for potential home buyers
23 Jun 2023 National Capital hits $100m for KiwiSaver advice
23 Jun 2023 Property sales finally stop falling
23 Jun 2023 Potential home buyers urged to consult mortgage advisers
22 Jun 2023 Eroad shares jump almost 60%, Pacific Edge sinks further
22 Jun 2023 Commerce Commission banking study is not about bank conduct and culture
22 Jun 2023 Fresh highs for rents
21 Jun 2023 NZ market edges down as companies issue bad news
21 Jun 2023 It would be great if one day mortgage advising became a profession
21 Jun 2023 Mortgage advising should become a profession
21 Jun 2023 How's everyone doing?
20 Jun 2023 NZX50 rises as consumer confidence remains poor
20 Jun 2023 Partners Life cuts some policy pricing, promises more
20 Jun 2023 Three personality types more likely to seek financial advice
20 Jun 2023 Banks come under regulator's spotlight
20 Jun 2023 Competitiveness of banks under the spotlight
20 Jun 2023 [DO NOT USE - already up] Life expectancy calculators
20 Jun 2023 West Coast joins the property price decline for the first time
19 Jun 2023 NZ sharemarket edges down as investors mull over last week’s data
19 Jun 2023 Hunt on for new Reserve Bank MPC members
19 Jun 2023 Climate reporting a scramble but collaboration will help
19 Jun 2023 Strategi CEO moving on, COO in charge of day-to-day
19 Jun 2023 FMA says monitoring isn't an audit or investigation
19 Jun 2023 Tony Alexander predicts
16 Jun 2023 NZ market turns over almost $400m as indices rebalance
16 Jun 2023 'As we have said, tailwinds are coming'
16 Jun 2023 Tailwinds are coming
16 Jun 2023 Generate puts $20m into new Icehouse Ventures fund
16 Jun 2023 AI: the fourth industrial revolution?
15 Jun 2023 Data-heavy day flattens NZ market
15 Jun 2023 Evaluating the effectiveness of climate reporting
15 Jun 2023 test DONOTUSE
15 Jun 2023 Tiger Brokers : ShareTrader NZ Special bonus:
15 Jun 2023 Confidence returning to the housing market slowly
15 Jun 2023 Challenger bank to leave NZ
15 Jun 2023 Marketing tips for mortgage advisers
14 Jun 2023 Auckland International Airport shares stumble, all eyes on Fed
14 Jun 2023 InvestNow to expand term deposits, KiwiSaver EFTs
14 Jun 2023 InvestNow to expand term deposits, KiwiSaver ETFs
14 Jun 2023 HSBC to withdraw from wealth and retail banking in NZ
14 Jun 2023 Where to buy property
14 Jun 2023 Open banking could change lending; How advisers can diversify their businesses
14 Jun 2023 [OPINION] How brokers can diversify to support small business
14 Jun 2023 House values hold where first home buyers active
14 Jun 2023 House values hold where first home buyers active
14 Jun 2023 Some banks will be ready for open banking before May 2024
13 Jun 2023 NZ tech stocks miss out on Nasdaq highs
13 Jun 2023 Spectacular migration surge will drop dramatically
13 Jun 2023 Nearly $300,000 wiped off Auckland house values
13 Jun 2023 More competition in online home loans coming; ANZ increases rates
13 Jun 2023 New PI insurer bundles in retroactive cover
13 Jun 2023 Competition is coming for Heartland's online mortgages
12 Jun 2023 NZX50 dips as investors wait on data
12 Jun 2023 Are Kiwis recession-ready?
12 Jun 2023 Three scenes for how climate change will impact portfolios
10 Jun 2023 Drop the money jargon urges Retirement Commission
10 Jun 2023 [GRTV] AI and investment, is active management delivering?
09 Jun 2023 NZX 50 slips as Auckland airport shares rise
09 Jun 2023 A narrow escape from recession
09 Jun 2023 Another major player sees uptick in first-home buyer activity
09 Jun 2023 Illegal car park storage could mean end of tenancy
09 Jun 2023 Weighing up objectives when it comes to investing
09 Jun 2023 Another major player sees uptick in first-home buyer activity
09 Jun 2023 Stewart Group welcomes advisers to mid-market ACI Funds
09 Jun 2023 Medium density housing keeps rents lower
08 Jun 2023 NZX50 dips for third day in a row
08 Jun 2023 Heading in the right direction
08 Jun 2023 IFSO breaks enquiry record for three months in a row
08 Jun 2023 FHB enquiries picking up
08 Jun 2023 Scrutinise borrowing in light of trust tax rise
08 Jun 2023 [GRTV] No escaping responsible investment
08 Jun 2023 Easing of LVR restrictions lifts first-home buyer enquiries
07 Jun 2023 Pacific Edge's plunge helps NZX50 to lowest level in 10 weeks
07 Jun 2023 What impact will the election have on mortgage advisers?
07 Jun 2023 Huge amount of income to service investment property
07 Jun 2023 ‘Greenhushing’ another form of greenwashing says Aussie watchdog
07 Jun 2023 Aussie private equity fund added to Apex
07 Jun 2023 [OPINION] Property investors just as guilty of short-termism as stock market investors
07 Jun 2023 Pie Funds adds director and adviser
07 Jun 2023 Tax hikes make PIEs shine
06 Jun 2023 Big news drive big moves on sharemarket
06 Jun 2023 New data shows steep declines in lending; Former non-bank BDM takes on new role
06 Jun 2023 New data shows steep declines in new mortgage lending
06 Jun 2023 Insync formalises partnership with VC firm
06 Jun 2023 [DO NOT USE - already up] Insurance contract law review – follow up
06 Jun 2023 Policy polarisation impact on mortgage adviser and property investor vote
06 Jun 2023 Tenant who never resided at rental still liable for damages
05 Jun 2023 Other lawyers note uptick in FMA information orders
02 Jun 2023 Investors take an early long weekend as the NZX drifts
02 Jun 2023 FANZ's newest board member has a rich background
02 Jun 2023 Acton-Adams returns to Astute
02 Jun 2023 [GRTV] Ballantyne on lows, highs and switching exits
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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