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April 2023
18 Apr 2023 New financial advice diploma
17 Apr 2023 AIA makes two internal appointments
17 Apr 2023 Late surge lifts sharemarket into positive territory
17 Apr 2023 Migration gain continues to rise
17 Apr 2023 Fund manager charged with assault
17 Apr 2023 Migrant tap back on
17 Apr 2023 Building costs growth slows
17 Apr 2023 Bentham Asset Management announces global income PIE fund in NZ
14 Apr 2023 Sharemarket closes down on very low volumes
14 Apr 2023 Cracking the Responsible Investing Code
14 Apr 2023 FSF looks to grow with new role filled
14 Apr 2023 Rent drops bad news for landlords
14 Apr 2023 Prediction interest rates will remain higher longer
14 Apr 2023 Westpac takes a different approach to ANZ; CCCFA changes again
13 Apr 2023 Investors focused on inflation as shares meander
13 Apr 2023 Fisher Funds to jettison fees
13 Apr 2023 Australian real estate giant hopes to shake up NZ market
13 Apr 2023 Government has another go at tweaking CCCFA
13 Apr 2023 ANZ blinks first
12 Apr 2023 NZ investors quiet as investors await US inflation data
12 Apr 2023 Kiwis willing to trade to keep pension age down
12 Apr 2023 Building trust paramount with climate reporting
12 Apr 2023 Proposed legislation making it harder for non-bank deposit takers
12 Apr 2023 Proposed legislation hindering non-bank deposit takers capital raising
12 Apr 2023 House values drop by $250,000 in Wellington and Auckland
11 Apr 2023 Sharemarket ends flat after rocky start
11 Apr 2023 DTI restrictions to bed in next year
11 Apr 2023 5 ways Prospa helps advisers succeed
11 Apr 2023 Are advisers using bank calculators correctly?
11 Apr 2023 A $1.5 trillion wall of debt looming for US commercial properties
10 Apr 2023 Relying on banks’ calculators not enough for advisers
06 Apr 2023 All quiet on the sharemarket front
06 Apr 2023 Plans to buy shares swing upwards
06 Apr 2023 Mortgage rates not likely to move
06 Apr 2023 House price falls in hundreds of thousands
06 Apr 2023 What the RBNZ's surprise OCR hike means for home loan rates
06 Apr 2023 What economists are now predicting for interest rates
05 Apr 2023 Market absorbs Reserve Bank shock
05 Apr 2023 Kiwis risk missing out with limited benchmarks
05 Apr 2023 OCR Announcement: What the Reserve Bank said
05 Apr 2023 BREAKING: RBNZ raises OCR by 50 bps
05 Apr 2023 House sales up slightly but still way off peak
05 Apr 2023 Law named interim CEO at SmartShare
05 Apr 2023 Southern Cross trials school holiday programme initiative to help employees manage childcare juggle
04 Apr 2023 NZ market perks up as Australia's central bank holds rates
04 Apr 2023 Guardians appoint highly experienced board member
04 Apr 2023 Fidelity acting CEO announces temporary appointments to executive team
04 Apr 2023 Banks given a year to get DTIs sorted
04 Apr 2023 Finding new members a sign of the times
04 Apr 2023 End to RBNZ tightening cycle creeps closer
04 Apr 2023 PMG starts capital raise for flagship fund
04 Apr 2023 Rebrand journey a long term investment
03 Apr 2023 NZX50 slips as traders await cental banks' decisions
03 Apr 2023 Debt-to-income tool finalised by Reserve Bank
03 Apr 2023 Soft landing hopes rise;Pepper teams up with CoreLogic; An opportunity for mobile mortgage managers
03 Apr 2023 What a wobbly global financial market could do to NZ housing
03 Apr 2023 Business confidence stagnant but hopes rise for soft landing
01 Apr 2023 Pepper teams up with CoreLogic in NZ
March 2023
31 Mar 2023 NZ sharemarket takes a breather despite strong performance from Hallenstein Glasson
31 Mar 2023 Fidelity Life and FMG look for new rural adviser talent
31 Mar 2023 Dealer group changes; New association welcoming advisers
31 Mar 2023 Veteran mortgage adviser Geoff Bawden sells his dealer group
31 Mar 2023 Association now welcoming advisers
30 Mar 2023 NZX's second big rise in three days
30 Mar 2023 On the cusp of a big downturn for residential builders
30 Mar 2023 Data shows home buyers still shying away from market
30 Mar 2023 Asteron Life upgrades telehealth for customers and advisers
30 Mar 2023 Home buyers still shying away from market
30 Mar 2023 Financial sector feedback wanted on climate related guidance
30 Mar 2023 Lagging advisers who rush assignments sacrifice quality
29 Mar 2023 Buyers shun market and shares dip
29 Mar 2023 It's time to contact a mortgage broker
29 Mar 2023 Rents reach all-time weekly highs
29 Mar 2023 Now is the time to contact a mortgage adviser
29 Mar 2023 FMA warning to Vanguard Australia
29 Mar 2023 What commercial real estate investors want
28 Mar 2023 AIA extends its 360 programme
28 Mar 2023 Positive day offshore leads strong revival of NZ sharemarket
28 Mar 2023 The good, bad and ugly of the refinancing wave
28 Mar 2023 Mortgage director launches book for first-home buyers
28 Mar 2023 Easing emotion in client investment
28 Mar 2023 [OPINION] Property always goes up or does it?
28 Mar 2023 ANZIIF CEO moves on
28 Mar 2023 Things advisers should be doing at claim time
28 Mar 2023 Call for transparency to ensure investor confidence
28 Mar 2023 The refinancing wave – the good, bad and ugly
27 Mar 2023 NZ market makes small gain despite Synlait taking hit
27 Mar 2023 Banks upgrade OCR peak forecast
27 Mar 2023 JMI Wealth gets a new investment strategist
27 Mar 2023 Wealth drops for the rich but opportunities ahead
27 Mar 2023 OCR peaks forecasts lowered
27 Mar 2023 Wealthpoint delivers strong life insurance activity growth
26 Mar 2023 Results galore – so how exactly did the earnings season play out?
24 Mar 2023 NZ investors remain wary, sharemarket ends week flat
24 Mar 2023 More landlords than ever thinking of selling
24 Mar 2023 Industry Expert Joins NZHL; Reality check on recession-talk needed
24 Mar 2023 NZ Home Loans gets new GM from AIA
24 Mar 2023 Reality check on recession-talk needed
23 Mar 2023 NZ sharemarket holds up despite Warehouse result
23 Mar 2023 Milford embraces technological advice and transparency as part of third party Kiwisaver growth
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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