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September 2022
03 Sep 2022 Saturday Special: Spotlight on business lending
02 Sep 2022 NZ dollar lingers lower for another day
02 Sep 2022 Cigna's latest enhancements to non-medical limits and requirements
02 Sep 2022 FMA makes permanent stop order against adviser
02 Sep 2022 The latest results season has proven better-than-feared – what does this mean for the outlook for NZ stock market?
01 Sep 2022 NZ dollar dips as equities hit by post-earnings season blues
01 Sep 2022 [WATCH] What National would do to fix CCCFA and more
01 Sep 2022 [WATCH] What National would do to fix CCCFA
August 2022
31 Aug 2022 NZ shares fall on US interest rate rises
31 Aug 2022 Life sciences and healthcare sectors becoming a key focus for property investors
31 Aug 2022 The great KiwiSaver U-turn
31 Aug 2022 Vile abuse leads to big compensation awards
31 Aug 2022 ASB says tough year ahead but long term prospects improve
31 Aug 2022 Treasury research found more evidence of housing burden on the elderly
31 Aug 2022 Tough year ahead but long term prospects improve – ASB
31 Aug 2022 Parker quietly tables proposed $225m KiwiSaver tax
30 Aug 2022 Index heavyweights pull NZ market higher
30 Aug 2022 More evidence of housing burden on the elderly – Treasury research
30 Aug 2022 Govt expected to move on data sharing
29 Aug 2022 A2 results pull shares into land of milk and honey
29 Aug 2022 Bouncy castle deflating
29 Aug 2022 Kiwibank says fixed rate mortgages may have peaked
29 Aug 2022 Fixed rate mortgages may have peaked: Kiwibank
29 Aug 2022 Changes to commission payments in new agreements
27 Aug 2022 Fund managers owning more in so-called, bad companies
27 Aug 2022 [TMM] Saturday Special
26 Aug 2022 NZ market flat after jam-packed earnings week
26 Aug 2022 Prospa NZ makes significant contribution
26 Aug 2022 Prospa makes significant contribution to parent company
26 Aug 2022 Wholesale investments in the regulator's sights
25 Aug 2022 Air NZ's results doesn't surprise the market
25 Aug 2022 Housing confidence and investor buying plunge
25 Aug 2022 Changes at AIA
25 Aug 2022 Why now could be the right time to diversify
25 Aug 2022 Why now could be the right time to diversify
24 Aug 2022 Spark's standout' result pulls market higher
24 Aug 2022 $8.7 mill mortgage fraud case nears end
24 Aug 2022 MMC, now Apex, gets new CEO
24 Aug 2022 From famine to feast
24 Aug 2022 Lengthy mortgage fraud case draws towards a conclusion
24 Aug 2022 Market adjustment continues
23 Aug 2022 NZ’s market slumps on Wall Street worries
23 Aug 2022 Heartland group boosts earnings
22 Aug 2022 Energy stocks hike up NZ’s market
22 Aug 2022 Mercer makes CIO appointment
22 Aug 2022 Govt pays $2.1 bill for Kiwibank
22 Aug 2022 Govt buys back Kiwibank
22 Aug 2022 Here's a plan to fix gender gap
22 Aug 2022 Entire mortgage industry at stake from unethical behaviour
21 Aug 2022 Lack of understanding around ACC worrying
19 Aug 2022 F&P Healthcare drags market down with lower half-year profit expected
19 Aug 2022 [The Wrap] One good deal; One dud deal
19 Aug 2022 Kiwibank signing up more mortgage advisers
19 Aug 2022 Kiwibank to double number of advisers
19 Aug 2022 AFT hits an important milestone
19 Aug 2022 Crypto warning issued
19 Aug 2022 Land supply restrictions main cause of rampant house prices
19 Aug 2022 Report helps advisers grow their businesses
18 Aug 2022 Auckland Airport’s outlook drags down shares
18 Aug 2022 Kiwibank's best ever results; RBNZ says its on top of inflation
18 Aug 2022 Kiwibank reports best ever results
18 Aug 2022 House profits dropping and some owners in negative equity
18 Aug 2022 RBNZ sounds a confident note on inflation
18 Aug 2022 Competition in professional development grows
17 Aug 2022 Fletcher Building pulls market higher
17 Aug 2022 OCR up again: Ongoing monetary tightening
17 Aug 2022 OCR up again: What the RBNZ said
17 Aug 2022 Big rise in costs for home owners; Non-banks eating into big banks
17 Aug 2022 Rent freeze suggested to private landlords’ surprise
17 Aug 2022 Big rise in costs for home owners; Non-banks eating into big banks
17 Aug 2022 Privacy is the issue no one is talking about
16 Aug 2022 Mercury shares fall 3% after release of full year result
16 Aug 2022 Boom in construction to fade over next few years
16 Aug 2022 Dodgy financial adviser in more trouble with FMA
16 Aug 2022 Fidelity Life establishes adviser council
16 Aug 2022 FMA ratchets up its campaign for better ESG disclosure from fund managers
15 Aug 2022 Contact Energy kicks off earnings season
15 Aug 2022 Falling home loan rates likely to irk RBNZ
15 Aug 2022 Tax exemption discriminates against ordinary landlords
15 Aug 2022 Fisher finally lands Kiwi Wealth
15 Aug 2022 Needs analysis focus: what data do you need?
15 Aug 2022 FMA fights hard to avoid unconscious bias: Hewes
12 Aug 2022 Partners Life sold: Price $1 billion
12 Aug 2022 NZ dollar rise pinches big exporters
12 Aug 2022 A renewed inflation battle expected next Wednesday
12 Aug 2022 $6.3 billion wiped off KiwiSaver
12 Aug 2022 House prices have further to fall
11 Aug 2022 NZ shares rise slightly on Wall Street optimism
11 Aug 2022 Property market slump deepens
11 Aug 2022 Changes at Pie Funds following departures
11 Aug 2022 New pie like fund being baked
10 Aug 2022 A2 shares plunge over FDA formula deferral
10 Aug 2022 SHARE CEO departs; ASB increases profit
10 Aug 2022 SHARE loses its boss
10 Aug 2022 Cigna admits making error
10 Aug 2022 ASB reports $1.42 bill profit
10 Aug 2022 Consumers have lost trust in financial services
09 Aug 2022 NZ shares rise on another quiet day
09 Aug 2022 Kiwibank cuts rates for green improvements
09 Aug 2022 Tough year but Asteron happy with its results
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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