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October 2022
17 Oct 2022 Replacement CEO at SHARE announced
17 Oct 2022 Record high building costs expected to surge further
17 Oct 2022 More inflation tipped for NZ
16 Oct 2022 Why life insurers oppose the government’s proposed NZIIS
14 Oct 2022 New US inflation data surprises market
14 Oct 2022 Have you had your say? Mortgage holders doing well
14 Oct 2022 Mortgage holders managing well
13 Oct 2022 NZ markets lags before new key CPI data tomorrow
13 Oct 2022 Kiwibank makes interest rate rises a clean sweep
13 Oct 2022 Rethinking traditional balanced fund asset allocation
13 Oct 2022 Adding Up 25 years of service
13 Oct 2022 Painful housing market keeps rolling on
12 Oct 2022 Tourism Holdings' bounce is NZX's big story of the day
12 Oct 2022 It's time to have your say!
12 Oct 2022 BNZ joins the rush to new mortgage rates
12 Oct 2022 Auckland hotel sale biggest ever
12 Oct 2022 Bad start to spring sales
12 Oct 2022 ASB also moves on interest rates
12 Oct 2022 How insurers might tackle the trust gap
12 Oct 2022 Further mortgage rises announced
11 Oct 2022 Markets waiting for slew of US economic data
11 Oct 2022 Economists - Households awaiting interest shock in the anti-inflation front line
11 Oct 2022 Booster hires from Public Trust
11 Oct 2022 Coast the toast of the regions
11 Oct 2022 Households awaiting interest shock in the anti-inflation front line – economists
10 Oct 2022 US jobs figures weigh on NZ market; Pushpay surprises
10 Oct 2022 Not rushing to pass on OCR increases
10 Oct 2022 Modern slavery still a 21st-century reality
10 Oct 2022 Life insurers urged to prepare for climate change
10 Oct 2022 Banks not rushing to pass on OCR increases
10 Oct 2022 Magellan sees more outflows; cops a downgrade and senior manager sells up
09 Oct 2022 Kernel grows its team
07 Oct 2022 Shares fall as global investors wait for US jobs data
06 Oct 2022 Interest rates still talk of the town on NZ's market
06 Oct 2022 New Governance role at Newpark
06 Oct 2022 Banks, insurers pay up after conduct reviews
06 Oct 2022 Could 2022 get better from here, it’s certainly hard to get worse
06 Oct 2022 What economists think about yesterday's OCR rise
06 Oct 2022 Market adjusts to economic conditions
06 Oct 2022 OCR rise makes economist ’wary’
06 Oct 2022 The sad saga of AMP Capital continues
05 Oct 2022 RBNZ goes with the flow with 50bp hike
05 Oct 2022 Former Liberty BDM joins Prospa
05 Oct 2022 OCR up another 50 points; Liberty BDM moves on
05 Oct 2022 RBNZ goes again: Why the bank increased rates
05 Oct 2022 Minister defends spending record in high inflationary era
05 Oct 2022 One of worst times for fall in house values
05 Oct 2022 Office expectations higher for hybrid workers
05 Oct 2022 World Financial Planning Day
05 Oct 2022 World Financial Planning Day
05 Oct 2022 Home loan lending volumes remain soft
04 Oct 2022 Reserve Bank of Australia hikes by 25 basis points
04 Oct 2022 Cost of living pressures “chilling”
04 Oct 2022 Building a recommendation – remember to substantiate your data assumptions
04 Oct 2022 KiwiSaver 2022: higher fees, lower investment returns
04 Oct 2022 Cost of living pressures “chilling” - report
04 Oct 2022 Latest licensing numbers show advice industry shrinking
04 Oct 2022 Proof of ethical choices by investors given to conference
04 Oct 2022 KiwiSaver 2022: higher fees, lower investment returns
04 Oct 2022 Pie Funds get new head chef
03 Oct 2022 NZ's market zeros in on interest rates
03 Oct 2022 Pie Funds get new head chef
03 Oct 2022 New director for TSB
03 Oct 2022 Empty home owners not willing to become landlords
03 Oct 2022 Building consents flatten, prices rise but construction carries on
03 Oct 2022 Experts united over interest rate gloom
03 Oct 2022 Stewart Investors Disclaimer
03 Oct 2022 A lab experiment moves to next phase
03 Oct 2022 Dust-up looming over FMA’s value-for-money initiative
02 Oct 2022 Experts united over interest rate gloom
01 Oct 2022 Partners Life finally snares BNZ
September 2022
30 Sep 2022 Currency volatility drives NZ market down
30 Sep 2022 Move beyond trust to inspiration-Matt Church
30 Sep 2022 Advisers told to move beyond trust to inspiration
30 Sep 2022 AIA fined $700,000 for misleading customers
30 Sep 2022 No turning the corner on house prices
30 Sep 2022 Fund managers choose ethical companies to invest in - conference
29 Sep 2022 Export stocks help pull NZ market up
29 Sep 2022 Kiwibank also raises interest rates
29 Sep 2022 BNZ raises mortgage rates
29 Sep 2022 BNZ raises rates
29 Sep 2022 MBIE reveals the likely cost of a COFI licence
29 Sep 2022 Responsible investment advanced with new Stewardship Code
29 Sep 2022 Mortgage advisers escape the main thrust of Stewardship Code
28 Sep 2022 Latest actuary scholarship awarded
28 Sep 2022 Property stocks pull market lower
28 Sep 2022 Petition starts for KiwiSaver sharing
28 Sep 2022 Tough times reverberate through the mortgage industry
28 Sep 2022 Listings lift more than 70%
28 Sep 2022 Tough times reverberate through mortgage industry
28 Sep 2022 What does retirement look like?
27 Sep 2022 NZ’s market falls almost 2% on global currency volatility
27 Sep 2022 Property managers flout privacy rules
27 Sep 2022 A new loan option for property investors
27 Sep 2022 Sustainability about people and enterprises, not metrics
27 Sep 2022 What KiwiSaver might look like in 2050
27 Sep 2022 Russell gets the boot for Smartshares
27 Sep 2022 Decumulation
26 Sep 2022 New loan option for property investors
26 Sep 2022 Technology planning and development map – updated for advisers
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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