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February 2023
02 Feb 2023 Slow 2023 start to residential market
02 Feb 2023 NZ dollar jumps almost one US cent following Fed hike
02 Feb 2023 Insurer offers support for customers
02 Feb 2023 Asteron Life’s reminder of insurance support and flexibility in trying times
02 Feb 2023 Investors are aware of crucial role in climate change but need help
02 Feb 2023 Falling mortgage business – Centrix
02 Feb 2023 InvestNow pick ‘n mix a value-add opp for advisers
01 Feb 2023 NZ market jumps up ahead of Fed decision tomorrow
01 Feb 2023 NZ market jumps up ahead of Fed decision tomorrow
01 Feb 2023 Interest rate peak maybe closer than previously expected
01 Feb 2023 Some interest rate relief forecast
01 Feb 2023 Hamilton adviser aims to get more people covered for health issues
01 Feb 2023 Five tips for new property investors’ success
01 Feb 2023 Botica to depart FMA
January 2023
31 Jan 2023 Duncan Webb gets key commerce portfolio
31 Jan 2023 NZ market in waiting mode as investors wait for central banks' decisions
31 Jan 2023 One change could help renters’ cost of living crisis
31 Jan 2023 Fund manager of the year shortlist
30 Jan 2023 Impact of Friday's flooding felt on share market
30 Jan 2023 Home loans rates not kept up with OCR increases; Go figure this latest home loan rate change
30 Jan 2023 Home loans rates not keep up with OCR increases
30 Jan 2023 Tips for landlords to get through the Auckland flooding
28 Jan 2023 Salt strategises the year ahead
27 Jan 2023 Ryman Healthcare ends week up 18%
27 Jan 2023 [The Wrap] FMA bares its teeth
27 Jan 2023 The fallout at QuayStreet starts
27 Jan 2023 Bigger nuts for squirreling your money away
27 Jan 2023 Yield curve: Jan 27
27 Jan 2023 The FMA's plans for this year; See our cool graph
27 Jan 2023 Here's what you can expect from the FMA this year
27 Jan 2023 Mortgage industry given reassuring words on coming recession
26 Jan 2023 NZ tech stocks have a mixed day
26 Jan 2023 Rent increases slow
26 Jan 2023 Smartshares CEO steps down
26 Jan 2023 FSC urges Hipkins to take another look
25 Jan 2023 NZ market edges up as CPI data remains stable
25 Jan 2023 Inflation stays high worries economists
25 Jan 2023 Inflation worries economists
25 Jan 2023 Why is it so hard to know how many people have life insurance?
25 Jan 2023 Southern Cross confirms funding for medicinal cannabis consultations for most policyholders
25 Jan 2023 Inflation stays high - Stats NZ
24 Jan 2023 NZX leads market lower as inflation figures loom
24 Jan 2023 FMA stakeholders often critical – survey
24 Jan 2023 NZ Super Fund hunts fourth partner for sustainable finance
24 Jan 2023 What active Investors are planning this year
24 Jan 2023 Kiwibank makes appointment
24 Jan 2023 A closer look into the dark art of technical trading
23 Jan 2023 Serko jumps up as NZ market edges down
23 Jan 2023 One bank lowers interest rates; House price outlook and comments from new PM
23 Jan 2023 Housing policy curve balls and election inertia
23 Jan 2023 How are you treating your 18-21-year-olds?
23 Jan 2023 FMA releases risk analysis for managed investment funds sector
22 Jan 2023 Partners Life gets upgraded
20 Jan 2023 F&P Healthcare boosts share market with stable revenue
20 Jan 2023 Old-timer steps back from mortgage advice
20 Jan 2023 Lifetime adds global expert to board
20 Jan 2023 Veteran adviser Geoff Bawden steps back
20 Jan 2023 Mediation or arbitration can stop if court action looms - advice
20 Jan 2023 Fidelity Life CEO departs
19 Jan 2023 NZ market doesn’t budge after PM announces shock resignation
19 Jan 2023 Lifetime buys another super scheme
19 Jan 2023 Luxon “happy” with economic team – analysis
19 Jan 2023 Fidelity gives temporary relief for customers affected by Cyclone Hale
19 Jan 2023 Specialising in responsible investment
18 Jan 2023 Large growth stocks pull NZ market higher
18 Jan 2023 FMA appoints its first chief economist
18 Jan 2023 Disappointing year end to tough housing market
18 Jan 2023 From squeeze to crush
17 Jan 2023 NZ market upbeat as China's economy opens back up
17 Jan 2023 ANZ forecasting higher OCR than Reserve Bank predictions
17 Jan 2023 Census will have important information for the lending industry
17 Jan 2023 FMA lands its biggest ever penalty
17 Jan 2023 Five big questions commercial real estate is asking
17 Jan 2023 ANZ forecasting higher OCR than Reserve Bank predictions
17 Jan 2023 Making ethical money work
16 Jan 2023 NZ shares rise as US earnings season prepares to kick off
16 Jan 2023 [OPINION] New Zealand LVRs not likely to be loosened this year
13 Jan 2023 Pacific Edge jumps almost 6%; US CPI data says inflation is slowing
13 Jan 2023 Massey hangs up his own shingle
13 Jan 2023 Stephen Massey hangs up his own shingle
13 Jan 2023 A musical countdown to the number 1 financial impact of 2022
13 Jan 2023 Big changes at NZX's platform business
12 Jan 2023 Elevated consenting numbers a nice surprise for market
12 Jan 2023 Tribunal decisions interfering with landlords rents
12 Jan 2023 AIA NZ kicks off 2023 with one month’s premium free to customers
12 Jan 2023 Adviser licensing programme makes further progress
12 Jan 2023 Adviser licensing programme makes further progress
11 Jan 2023 NZ shares dip in tandem with ANZ world commodity price index
11 Jan 2023 Partners Life new advisers training course
11 Jan 2023 Will Artificial Intelligence replace financial advisers?
10 Jan 2023 NZ market still in out-of-office territory
10 Jan 2023 Cost of building a new house skyrockets
10 Jan 2023 Investor tax burden already affecting rental property
09 Jan 2023 Falling bond yields suggest inflation is peaking
09 Jan 2023 Tough year for Barfoot & Thompson
09 Jan 2023 NZ Super invests in US climate fund
09 Jan 2023 Banks launch new campaign against scams
09 Jan 2023 House prices drop in nearly every suburb across the country
06 Jan 2023 Annuitas gets new CEO
06 Jan 2023 A change in focus for SIFA
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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