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September 2022
23 Sep 2022 NZ’s market holds up against global headwinds
23 Sep 2022 No gain without pain
23 Sep 2022 Bank deposits guarantee bill goes to parliament
23 Sep 2022 Rent rises could contribute to more inflation
23 Sep 2022 US Interest rates jump hits NZ
23 Sep 2022 An “Age of Confusion” dawns for investors
23 Sep 2022 Suncorp accelerates plans to net-zero
22 Sep 2022 NZ dollar hits pandemic lows
22 Sep 2022 Interest rates jump as Fed battles inflation
22 Sep 2022 New product boss at Avanti
22 Sep 2022 US Interest rates jump
22 Sep 2022 FSC announces awards winners
22 Sep 2022 Investors' confidence maybe misplaced
22 Sep 2022 Gongs handed out to top industry players
21 Sep 2022 Air NZ shares take flight
21 Sep 2022 Federal Reserve to raise rate – Kiwi braces for impact
21 Sep 2022 Mortgage Express appoints sales manager
21 Sep 2022 ANZ makes home loan rates changes
21 Sep 2022 Five warning signs your property manager is underperforming
21 Sep 2022 War against inflation is part won - expert
21 Sep 2022 Profits high in banking sector but challenges ahead – KPMG
20 Sep 2022 ANZ makes increases to home loan rates
20 Sep 2022 NZ dollar hits 28-month low
20 Sep 2022 Drug growing operation leaves landlord with massive costs
20 Sep 2022 Good tenants hard to find
20 Sep 2022 Wellington area business wins trans-Tasman award
20 Sep 2022 Reserve Bank says climate change programme is vital
20 Sep 2022 No premium increase promise
19 Sep 2022 NZ market waits for Fed decision
19 Sep 2022 Super Fund goes greener
19 Sep 2022 Lending company faulted in CCCFA related case
19 Sep 2022 FMA changes management structure
19 Sep 2022 FSCL urges lenders to take note
18 Sep 2022 Awards winner celebrates business relationships for life
17 Sep 2022 New high forecast for OCR
16 Sep 2022 NZ shares fall; Air NZ shoots down merger talk
16 Sep 2022 TSB offers loans at 4.69%
16 Sep 2022 Thom Bentley turns up at new gig
16 Sep 2022 TSB's new offer; Westpac cuts some fees
16 Sep 2022 Values plunge in more than 80% of the country’s suburbs
16 Sep 2022 Southern Cross Health reports record membership number, uses surplus to curb premium hikes
16 Sep 2022 Westpac removes some fees for customers
15 Sep 2022 Pushpay sinks almost 15% on rumours of sale failure
15 Sep 2022 OCR could reach 4.25% - ASB
15 Sep 2022 ASB predicts even higher interest rates
15 Sep 2022 What an Aussie learnt about NZ advisers
15 Sep 2022 Stats NZ - Economy grows 1.7%
15 Sep 2022 BNZ names new chief economist
15 Sep 2022 Business lending demand an opportunity for advisers
15 Sep 2022 Economy grows 1.7% - Stats NZ
15 Sep 2022 Scammers target Financial Services Federation
15 Sep 2022 Southern Cross plans to curb premium hikes
15 Sep 2022 Fall of NZ dollar below $US0.60 is manageable on its own – economists
14 Sep 2022 Wall Street plunge sends NZ market and dollar spiralling
14 Sep 2022 Search continues for new SHARE boss
14 Sep 2022 Rising rent and food prices impact households
14 Sep 2022 Feedback sought from FAPs on COFI law
13 Sep 2022 Property stocks edge down over new housing data
13 Sep 2022 Difficulties with debt on the rise – Centrix
13 Sep 2022 InvestNow's parent company sold
13 Sep 2022 One way traffic for REINZ housing report
13 Sep 2022 KiwiSaver performance good but sliding – survey
13 Sep 2022 Financial Advice NZ membership numbers revealed
12 Sep 2022 Fonterra units jump as investors wait for GDP data to drop
12 Sep 2022 Moving to digital? Operational and customer paradigms are critical
12 Sep 2022 Zoning rules needed for Airbnb to stop suburban rents declining
12 Sep 2022 Fast versus Good – why some insurance isn’t as good as it should be, but some is very valuable indeed
12 Sep 2022 No recession, but more interest rate rises coming
12 Sep 2022 Are you undertaking regular client KiwiSaver reviews?
10 Sep 2022 Saturday Special: Early bird Better Business conference tickets
09 Sep 2022 Fonterra's 'significant' upgrade happy surprise for NZ's market
09 Sep 2022 The Value of Financial Advice in a VUCA World
09 Sep 2022 Just a 1.1% increase in house values last month
09 Sep 2022 Advised Kiwis happier, better informed
09 Sep 2022 Third compensation payment to Kāinga Ora tenant over unruly neighbours
09 Sep 2022 It’s a fact: KiwiSaver fees in NZ are low
09 Sep 2022 Wanted – Fidelity Life looking for the next generation of financial advisers.
08 Sep 2022 NZ market starts to see pick-up in volume
08 Sep 2022 TE adds Tauranga office
08 Sep 2022 Banks should not get special treatment
07 Sep 2022 NZ shares falter as US economy charges forward
07 Sep 2022 Test Article
07 Sep 2022 Non banks and finance companies say banks should not get special treatment
07 Sep 2022 Fidelity Life appoints head of group insurance
07 Sep 2022 Financial Advice NZ Awards winners
07 Sep 2022 Listings highest for 11 years as prices start to plateau
06 Sep 2022 RBA hikes cash rate by another 50 basis points
06 Sep 2022 National's answer to CCCFA
06 Sep 2022 Banks to be removed from CCCFA under National
06 Sep 2022 Inflation hits elderly disproportionately
06 Sep 2022 New director for Financial Advice New Zealand
06 Sep 2022 Ethical KiwiSaver leaves others in its wake
06 Sep 2022 New director for Financial Advice New Zealand
06 Sep 2022 Inflation eroding super payments and savings rapidly
05 Sep 2022 'News vacuum' cause for quiet market
05 Sep 2022 UniMed welcomes new board member
05 Sep 2022 New townhouses keep building consents high
05 Sep 2022 Falls and green shoots in housing market
05 Sep 2022 Cigna offers free specific injury cover offer
03 Sep 2022 Baking a small but better pie
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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