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November 2022
09 Nov 2022 Fidelity continues to adapt in a challenging environment
09 Nov 2022 BNZ adds to banking profits
09 Nov 2022 Call for targeted foreign residential property buying to start again
09 Nov 2022 Creating a brighter, more sustainable future
09 Nov 2022 Cigna offering free cover - for some
09 Nov 2022 Survey shows inflation staying high
09 Nov 2022 Financial advisers need to work harder: Bagrie
08 Nov 2022 Westpac KiwiSaver picks up new members
08 Nov 2022 Captain Orr keeps the wheel; BNZ reports $1 bill + profit and more
08 Nov 2022 Australian consumer sentiment, China drag market down
08 Nov 2022 [BREAKING NEWS] Mortgage Link gets a new owner
08 Nov 2022 Link Financial Group gets new owner
08 Nov 2022 Orr re-appointed to Reserve Bank amid strong criticism
08 Nov 2022 FundSource returns
07 Nov 2022 Prospect of an open China, US job data push market higher
07 Nov 2022 Westpac profit rises
07 Nov 2022 ASB has new low interest environmental loans
07 Nov 2022 Fidelity Life on the journey to improvement
07 Nov 2022 Westpac makes increased profit
07 Nov 2022 Investors snap up new builds at record levels
07 Nov 2022 [GRTV] Simon Fisher on FAP licensing
04 Nov 2022 NZ share market moves higher into weekend
04 Nov 2022 Sales slump to worst in 12 years
04 Nov 2022 You might have to name your next daughter Mark
04 Nov 2022 Life insurance company CEO joins FSC board
03 Nov 2022 A2 jumps on US FDA deal; Fed hike sends other stocks lower
03 Nov 2022 SIML fund manager moves on
03 Nov 2022 Ford moves on from Heartland
03 Nov 2022 Mixed story for mortgage holders as interest rates rise
03 Nov 2022 Heartland Bank appoints new director
03 Nov 2022 Property market not all doom and gloom
03 Nov 2022 The burden of regulation
03 Nov 2022 FSC gets a COO
02 Nov 2022 Tough times can lead to great deals
02 Nov 2022 NZ market waiting on tomorrow’s Fed decision
02 Nov 2022 Surface water and river flooding big risk for property prices
02 Nov 2022 Building consents continue to defy gravity
02 Nov 2022 Mixed story for mortgage holders as interest rates rise - banking chiefs
01 Nov 2022 NZ dollar gains on Aussie as RBA hikes rate
01 Nov 2022 RBNZ says NZ Banks well placed to withstand stagflation
01 Nov 2022 Slow down in average Auckland rents
01 Nov 2022 Avoiding digital and broadband disputes
01 Nov 2022 NZ Banks “well placed to withstand stagflation” – RBNZ
01 Nov 2022 Harbour releases inaugural impact report
01 Nov 2022 People batten down the hatches in tough environment – Centrix
October 2022
31 Oct 2022 Pushpay investors ponder takeover as NZX50 marches on
31 Oct 2022 Former Prime Minister John Key lambasts CCCFA
31 Oct 2022 New housing rules create dilemmas
31 Oct 2022 NZ Super loses $3.3 billion in year
31 Oct 2022 Sir John Key lambasts CCCFA
28 Oct 2022 SkyCity's shares perk up but shareholders aren't happy
28 Oct 2022 Inflation fears could ease
28 Oct 2022 Inflation fears could ease - economist
28 Oct 2022 Wealth tax not ruled out - Finance Minister
27 Oct 2022 NZ dollar hits monthly high
27 Oct 2022 InvestNow gets told off
27 Oct 2022 Silverfin appoints new CFO from the UK
27 Oct 2022 ANZ makes biggest ever profit
27 Oct 2022 ANZ cracks $2 billion profit mark
27 Oct 2022 Is KiwiSaver failing its Kiwi investors?
27 Oct 2022 Buckle up, the housing market slowdown isn’t over yet
27 Oct 2022 Kernel rounds out its fund offering
26 Oct 2022 Fletcher and Skellerup hoist market higher
26 Oct 2022 Reverse mortgages ease borrower “annoyance” - adviser
26 Oct 2022 How to easily increase weekly rents
26 Oct 2022 RBNZ needs to look the inflation beast in the eye
25 Oct 2022 Mainfreight drives the market higher
25 Oct 2022 FNZ takes stake in Kiwi advisory firm
25 Oct 2022 Increased commissions on offer
25 Oct 2022 Prospa rolls out new scheme for SMEs
25 Oct 2022 The Capital leads in green real estate
25 Oct 2022 Seeing both sides
24 Oct 2022 Insurers demand accurate costings for the government’s proposed NZIIS
21 Oct 2022 Mainfreight hits one-month high; NZX50 drops
21 Oct 2022 New highs reached with rates; Last chance to get in; Want a 30 year loan?
21 Oct 2022 Auckland rents at a standstill
21 Oct 2022 NZ unlikely to ever get 30 year fixed-rate mortgages
20 Oct 2022 F&P Healthcare drags market lower
20 Oct 2022 Heartland Bank to buy Australian bank Challenger
20 Oct 2022 Heartland Group plans to buy Australian bank
20 Oct 2022 Seven property investment firms officially warned for overstepping boundaries
20 Oct 2022 [GRTV]
19 Oct 2022 Big blue leads the rate rises
19 Oct 2022 NZ's swap rate hits 12-year high
19 Oct 2022 Higher interest rate hikes on the way
19 Oct 2022 How costs compare between different landlords
18 Oct 2022 [GRTV] Where Fidelity Life is heading
18 Oct 2022 CPI data shocks NZ market – but was not as high as many feared
18 Oct 2022 Higher interest rate hikes on the way as inflation stays high
18 Oct 2022 What landlords should be doing when rents are falling and tenants are in control
18 Oct 2022 Responsible investment on the rise - report
18 Oct 2022 Fixed rates inch up
18 Oct 2022 Insurance contract law review
18 Oct 2022 Insurance contract law review
18 Oct 2022 Virtual reality can be game changing
18 Oct 2022 Advisers risk big losses in lead up to FAP deadline – industry expert
17 Oct 2022 NZ market braces for key CPI data
17 Oct 2022 SHARE and Newpark get new boss
17 Oct 2022 More inflation tipped
17 Oct 2022 Investors climb on the Hamilton bandwagon
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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