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September 2025
16 Sep 2025 Loan Market banks on AI; Non-bank BDM's on the move
16 Sep 2025 [GRTV] Demand for ethical advice set to grow
16 Sep 2025 Non-bank BDMs on the move
15 Sep 2025 Mint adds new equity analyst
15 Sep 2025 Insurtech company wins FSC Innovation of the Year Award
15 Sep 2025 AI central to Loan Market’s future business
15 Sep 2025 Opinion: How much trauma cover is enough?
15 Sep 2025 FirstCape consolidates JBWere NZ’s custody and platform
15 Sep 2025 Fletcher Building gains 4.6% after big volumes on ASX
12 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket ends flat as US Federal Reserve decision looms
12 Sep 2025 More low deposit buyers enter housing market
12 Sep 2025 More buyers with low deposits getting into housing market
12 Sep 2025 NZ Funds enjoys best year, financially, since 2021
11 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket closes lower as tech stocks buoyed by Oracle update
11 Sep 2025 Booster appoints new Chief Investment Officer
11 Sep 2025 Housing supply surge gives buyers the upper hand
11 Sep 2025 Keeping a lid on house prices – housing supply outpaces population growth
10 Sep 2025 Financial advice to be pushed through Sorted
10 Sep 2025 Partners Life loses top executive
10 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket up as healthcare company Pacific Edge rallies 12% on US price news
10 Sep 2025 KiwiSaver turns 18 with $123 billion under management, but 30% aren't contributing
10 Sep 2025 Trauma Cover: Are we thinking things through or just doing what we have always done?
10 Sep 2025 How is the AI revolution hitting financial advice?
09 Sep 2025 NZX 50 stumbles as Ebos Group continues tough fortnight
09 Sep 2025 Harbour Disclaimer September 2025
09 Sep 2025 Harbour Investment Outlook
09 Sep 2025 House prices drop gives buyers a lift
09 Sep 2025 Slumping house prices good news for first home buyers
08 Sep 2025 simon says
08 Sep 2025 Infratil rises 2.65%, helps NZ sharemarket outperform Australia
08 Sep 2025 ANZ pays millions to Crown for breaching FMCA
08 Sep 2025 Financial advice industry shows more transparency and protections
08 Sep 2025 Greater transparency and protections
08 Sep 2025 Show Clients the Future, Not Just the Numbers: Meet OMNIMax’s Projection Tool
08 Sep 2025 Pathfinder challenges the idea that fees should be a primary focus for investors
08 Sep 2025 The benefits of outsourcing Virtual Assistants can’t be ignored
05 Sep 2025 Amova NZ appoints new relationship manager
05 Sep 2025 Westpac gives some suggestions to the RBNZ
05 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket ends week up 2.2%
05 Sep 2025 Borrowers pile into one-year mortgage rates
05 Sep 2025 Mortgage borrowers drop short term fixes and flock to one-year rates
04 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket up 0.4% after Potentia sells Vista stake
04 Sep 2025 Meet NZ’s new life insurer
03 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket dragged down by a2, Ebos
03 Sep 2025 Banks criticised for slowing open banking
03 Sep 2025 Banks use existing power to control open banking
03 Sep 2025 What’s Changed in the Financial Advice Code?
03 Sep 2025 Former AIA head starts new advice business
02 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket up 0.4% despite Hallenstein resignation
02 Sep 2025 Banks' new comparison calculator no threat to advisers: Patten
02 Sep 2025 Mortgage arrears ease while lending surges
02 Sep 2025 Mortgage defaults improve while lending rises
02 Sep 2025 Nikko brand replaced
01 Sep 2025 NZ sharemarket closes up over 1%
01 Sep 2025 DepositSmart launches deposit bonds offering to property purchasers
01 Sep 2025 Banks slow to change unfair clawback rules
01 Sep 2025 Banks tardy on making changes to clawback policies
August 2025
29 Aug 2025 UniMed offers support to members with cancer
29 Aug 2025 Newpark ownership changes hands; Hodgetts returns to compliance role
29 Aug 2025 Newpark aggregation group sold
29 Aug 2025 Harbour appoints new fixed income portfolio manager
29 Aug 2025 Delegat provides a bubbly end to NZ reporting season
29 Aug 2025 Flat house prices open door for first home buyers
29 Aug 2025 Predicted zero growth in house prices good for first home buyers
29 Aug 2025 Hodgetts lands new role with large FAP
28 Aug 2025 a2 Milk boosts NZ sharemarket; Hallenstein Glasson leads gains
28 Aug 2025 nib NZ appoints non-executive director
28 Aug 2025 Salt latest manager sold
28 Aug 2025 Borrowers chase cashback as $2.6b changes lenders
28 Aug 2025 Switching lenders reaches record
28 Aug 2025 FNZ employee shareholders claim an early win
27 Aug 2025 Ebos Group shares fall 14%, drags NZX 50 down 0.74%
27 Aug 2025 Chubb Life pays 96% of claims as cancer dominates payouts
27 Aug 2025 Modern-Day demands of income protection
27 Aug 2025 Kiwi, BNZ and ASB gained mortgage market share in June qtr
27 Aug 2025 Select committee proposes moves to boost banking competition
27 Aug 2025 Insurer dobs in adviser
27 Aug 2025 Quick strategies needed for banking competition
27 Aug 2025 Briscoes goes into the NZX50
26 Aug 2025 Channel Infrastructure gains not enough to keep NZX 50 above ledger
26 Aug 2025 FAMNZ pushes for mandatory membership and ongoing training
26 Aug 2025 Ongoing education as part of mandatory professional membership a priority - FAMNZ
26 Aug 2025 [GRTV] AIA talks affordability, products and AI
25 Aug 2025 NZX gains 0.28% as seven companies report earnings
25 Aug 2025 Market share high for first home buyers
25 Aug 2025 Westpac admits CCCFA breaches: what brokers should know
25 Aug 2025 Westpac to cough up for alleged CCCFA breaches
25 Aug 2025 New code for all advisers
25 Aug 2025 KiwiSaver nirvana
25 Aug 2025 Consilium reports increased demand for KiwiWRAP
22 Aug 2025 NZ stocks end weaker, but Fonterra rallies sharply after deal
22 Aug 2025 NZX’s Smart FUM growth slowed to 3.8% in the first half
22 Aug 2025 Chubb Life CEO wraps up three-month adviser tour
22 Aug 2025 Year of the refix: big choices ahead for borrowers
22 Aug 2025 Year of the refix
22 Aug 2025 Heartland expects 18% reverse mortgage growth in NZ
22 Aug 2025 Kiwibank's mortgage lending accelerated in the 2nd half
21 Aug 2025 NZ sharemarket continues momentum as Skellerup sees green
21 Aug 2025 Wealthpoint welcomes new director
21 Aug 2025 OCR cut explained: what brokers need to know for clients
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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