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March 2026
05 Mar 2026 Harbour takes out top award
04 Mar 2026 NZX50 dodges worst of market ructions over Iran conflict fears
04 Mar 2026 Kiwibank, ASB gain in 2025's mortgage wars while ANZ loses
04 Mar 2026 Industry wary of KiwiSaver changes
03 Mar 2026 NZX50 falls for a 2nd day as bubbling crude prices stoke inflation fears
03 Mar 2026 New direction for large advice firm; BDM wanted; TSB moves
03 Mar 2026 New brand and direction for large mortgage advice business
03 Mar 2026 Is it the year of the equal-weighted S&P 500 Index?
02 Mar 2026 NZX50 sinks as war breaks out in Middle East; oil soars
02 Mar 2026 Lending slashed in January as borrowers rushed for new deals in December
02 Mar 2026 Cressida adds to its team
02 Mar 2026 Free Will for new Fidelity policyholders
02 Mar 2026 FundRock appoints new MD
February 2026
27 Feb 2026 Earnings season helps deliver NZX50’s best month since September
27 Feb 2026 Moneta: Strengthening KiwiSaver advice with digital tools from OMNIMax
27 Feb 2026 Kiwibank lending accelerates and there is room for more
27 Feb 2026 NZX's Smart and Wealth Tecnologies contributed all profit growth in 2025
27 Feb 2026 Kiwibank accelerated mortgage lending in its first half
26 Feb 2026 NZX50 climbs 1.1% in earnings season flurry
26 Feb 2026 Devon appoints CEO
26 Feb 2026 AI isn’t the end of mortgage advisers – it’s about empowerment
26 Feb 2026 Debtfix takes hardship off providers’ hands
26 Feb 2026 Booster loses discovery bid to look at rival transactions
25 Feb 2026 Lee sells
25 Feb 2026 NZX50 snaps 3-day gain as Meridian slides
25 Feb 2026 Govt could cut NZ Super fiscal impact to 5% of GDP by 2065: consultants
24 Feb 2026 F&P Healthcare powers NZX50 higher as AI-pocalypse runs into earnings
24 Feb 2026 Call for money for kids as part of KiwiSaver 2.0
23 Feb 2026 F&P Healthcare upgrade drags NZX50 higher as Trump’s tariffs linger
23 Feb 2026 nib back in profit and recovering
23 Feb 2026 [GRTV] The benefits of global infrastructure
21 Feb 2026 [OPINION] Is there a future for FAMNZ?
20 Feb 2026 US-Iran tensions dent strong week for NZX50
20 Feb 2026 RBNZ blocks fintech bank application
20 Feb 2026 RBNZ squashes fintech Dosh’s bid to become a bank
19 Feb 2026 Blue chips out in force as NZX50 surges for a second day
19 Feb 2026 RBNZ predicts slower house price growth; ASB joins KO
19 Feb 2026 ASB joins low deposit Kāinga Ora scheme with some benefits
19 Feb 2026 Advisers question whether churn still an issue
19 Feb 2026 RBNZ expects slower house price growth in the current recovery
18 Feb 2026 NZX50 surges as RBNZ cools expectations for a pre-election rate hike
18 Feb 2026 [BREAKING NEWS] Brennan's first OCR call
18 Feb 2026 [What the RBNZ said] Why the cash rate stayed unchanged
18 Feb 2026 Investors lose out if worried managers ‘greenhush’
18 Feb 2026 Fidelity Life is refreshing the structure of its Adviser Council
18 Feb 2026 It's the big day today; What will the new RBNZ gov do?
18 Feb 2026 OCR rise tipped for second half of this year
17 Feb 2026 Contact leads NZX50 to five-month low in holiday trading across Asia
17 Feb 2026 Jack Patel back on the tools
17 Feb 2026 11 charities benefit from MDRT Foundation
17 Feb 2026 FAMNZ boss off; Breaking the aggregation model
17 Feb 2026 TAP moves away from traditional aggregation
16 Feb 2026 NZX50 slides as investors clear the decks for $525m Contact capital raising
16 Feb 2026 FAMNZ boss leaves
16 Feb 2026 Deal creates one of the world's largest active manager shops
16 Feb 2026 Market, meet your new Fed Chair
16 Feb 2026 Cowboy advisers a liability in mortgage industry
15 Feb 2026 Shaw and Partners buys Wellington advice firm
15 Feb 2026 ANZ loses head of asset allocation (again)
13 Feb 2026 NZX50 sinks to 4-month low as AI fears accelerate
13 Feb 2026 Mint and Wedge get together for a new bond fund
12 Feb 2026 Predictions for next week's OCR announcement
12 Feb 2026 ANZ surge leads gains on both sides of the Tasman
12 Feb 2026 Low fees ‘may come at cost of responsible investment’
12 Feb 2026 Adviser sees opportunity to advise advisers on business systems
12 Feb 2026 Booster pushes for info on how other fund managers operate
11 Feb 2026 NZX50 dips as CSL slide saps healthcare firms
11 Feb 2026 ASB grows home loan book; Two year rates back in vogue
11 Feb 2026 Southern Cross CEO steps down
11 Feb 2026 ASB accelerates mortgage lending and profit margins
11 Feb 2026 Big move back to two-year fixed interest rates
10 Feb 2026 NZX50 gains as investors prepare for earnings season, RBNZ
10 Feb 2026 Haven names new GM
09 Feb 2026 NZX50 muted as Australia recovers, Japan soars
09 Feb 2026 Client reviews – what is expected of advisers?
09 Feb 2026 Pepper Challenged; ASB and Kiwibank make rate changes
09 Feb 2026 Challenger aims for a stake in Pepper Money
09 Feb 2026 Low-fee KiwiSaver providers to the fore in Morningstar survey
06 Feb 2026 Dual-listed NZ firms join ASX rout as miners, tech stocks slide
05 Feb 2026 Serko leads NZX50 lower as tech fears remain
05 Feb 2026 Fewer complaints against advisers; Changes at NZFSG
05 Feb 2026 Investors no longer sitting on the fence as mortgage pile rises
05 Feb 2026 New national director for NZFSG
05 Feb 2026 [OPINION] Tax Efficiency vs. Real Returns: Are you being penny wise and pound foolish?
05 Feb 2026 Morningstar finalists this year
04 Feb 2026 NZX50 stays positive as jobs figures offer something for everyone
04 Feb 2026 KiwiSaver investors look offshore
04 Feb 2026 Cost of living dropping as mortgage interest rates tumble
04 Feb 2026 Lessons for life insurers from 1918
03 Feb 2026 Protecting access to healthcare while keeping premiums within reach
03 Feb 2026 NZX50 joins Asia rally as it edges higher; kiwi slides vs Aussie as RBA hikes
03 Feb 2026 QuayStreet adds two
03 Feb 2026 Pie adds new ingredient to its funds
02 Feb 2026 NZX50 dips, dodging worst of Asian slide; KMD falls
02 Feb 2026 Fewer complaints against advisers
02 Feb 2026 Hybrid human-AI client model the most effective for adviser success
01 Feb 2026 Fisher gets new RI head
January 2026
31 Jan 2026 [Your weekend TMM read] How much did this cost banks?
30 Jan 2026 NZX50 slides 0.9% in January as tech stocks falter, a2 Milk sinks
30 Jan 2026 Mortgage lending reaches all-time high in big bank cash backs frenzy
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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