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August 2022
09 Aug 2022 Staggering drop in housing market annual growth
09 Aug 2022 Mint CIO takes leave
09 Aug 2022 CoFI a journey of frustration: CEO
08 Aug 2022 Some good news on inflation
08 Aug 2022 Latest survey good news for the RBNZ
08 Aug 2022 Countdown to earnings season puts NZ shares in limbo
08 Aug 2022 New push to get advisers fully licensed
08 Aug 2022 Rental prices inch up; property sales slump to new low
05 Aug 2022 NZ market looks to be in better heart
05 Aug 2022 Inflation really weighs on returns
05 Aug 2022 A first for Smartshares
05 Aug 2022 What advisers can take from the FMA’s first big consumer survey
04 Aug 2022 Investors cheered by Briscoe's optimism for rest of the year
04 Aug 2022 Residential sector not working as well as it could be
04 Aug 2022 CCCFA changes wrong: Bankers Association; BNZ joins rate cutters
04 Aug 2022 What consumers think of financial advisers
03 Aug 2022 Higher unemployment spurs interest in NZX50
03 Aug 2022 Second set of changes to CCCFA “wrong option” Bankers Assn
03 Aug 2022 Slightly higher unemployment figures no boon for borrowers – experts
03 Aug 2022 Biggest fall in house prices for 14 years
03 Aug 2022 Building consents sink
03 Aug 2022 ANZ cuts rates
02 Aug 2022 Speculative A2 Milk spike drags NZX50 higher
02 Aug 2022 Fishers tipped to catch Kiwi Wealth
02 Aug 2022 Next round of CCCFA changes announced
02 Aug 2022 Second tranche of CCCFA changes announced
02 Aug 2022 Fidelity backs two non-profits
02 Aug 2022 [OPINION] Property market, Labour Government and Reserve Bank: an adversarial and unconstructive relationship
02 Aug 2022 Financial pressure hits the borrowing public
01 Aug 2022 Pacific Edge shares plunge on risk of revenue loss
01 Aug 2022 Covid predictions – how did we do?
01 Aug 2022 Jarden to build online investing platform
01 Aug 2022 Kiwibank takes one-year rate below 5%; Economic data may put more pressure on rates
01 Aug 2022 Lower unemployment forecast – with high interest rates to follow
01 Aug 2022 Bond service to get massive upgrade
01 Aug 2022 FMA set to release major consumer research ahead of COFI conduct regime
July 2022
30 Jul 2022 TMM Saturday Special
29 Jul 2022 Mainfreight shares rally for second day on US update
29 Jul 2022 First Mortgage Trust makes two key appointments
29 Jul 2022 New strategic accounts manager at AIA
29 Jul 2022 Over the peak
29 Jul 2022 Complaints of fear mongering by financial educators rejected
28 Jul 2022 Complaints of fear mongering by financial educators rejected
28 Jul 2022 Mainfreight’s shares jump
28 Jul 2022 Huge rent refund for Illegal ‘smoko shed’ conversion
28 Jul 2022 FMA calls out industry over ethical claims
27 Jul 2022 NZ Carbon units leap on ETS advice
27 Jul 2022 The real reason why advisers are delaying FAP applications
27 Jul 2022 The reason why advisers are delaying FAP applications
27 Jul 2022 Mike Pero mortgages hires more people
27 Jul 2022 $40 billion value wiped off housing market in six months
27 Jul 2022 Tough headwinds and greater fall in house prices
27 Jul 2022 How the FMA says it’s helping advisers to comply with the licensing regime
26 Jul 2022 Energy stocks decline across the board
26 Jul 2022 Renters making demands of property managers
26 Jul 2022 Secondary loan market set up by peer to peer company
26 Jul 2022 Staggering increase in Rotorua’s hotel room rates
26 Jul 2022 Fundamentals have gone missing in 2022
25 Jul 2022 Will there be many advisers left in a year's time?
25 Jul 2022 New BDM for Financial Advice NZ
25 Jul 2022 TSB beats the big four
25 Jul 2022 New Zealand shares fall as recession fears rise
25 Jul 2022 Buying opportunities stacking up for Canterbury investors
25 Jul 2022 Harbour Asset Management publishes first annual sustainability report
25 Jul 2022 FAP programme inches forward
22 Jul 2022 Pacific Edge ends week on high
22 Jul 2022 Mint appointed new Independent Director of the Board
22 Jul 2022 Building costs soar and no end in sight
22 Jul 2022 Rental market turning on landlords
22 Jul 2022 FMA ups the ante on value-for-money project, won’t back down on original guidance
21 Jul 2022 Pacific Edge rallies for second day on southern district health region deal
21 Jul 2022 Vocational retraining - the improvements
21 Jul 2022 Big merger in mortgage market
21 Jul 2022 FNZ buys private banking firm
21 Jul 2022 Big merger in mortgage market
21 Jul 2022 FMA reveals a plan and timeframe for COFI licensing
20 Jul 2022 Pacific Edge leads NZ shares higher
20 Jul 2022 Mortgage adviser wins no-loan-no-fee dispute
20 Jul 2022 New sustainable fund comes to New Zealand
20 Jul 2022 Auckland-based InsurTech firm aims for ASX listing
20 Jul 2022 How Tower is growing its adviser and referrals network
19 Jul 2022 NZ shares trade sideways during school holidays
19 Jul 2022 House prices in free fall
19 Jul 2022 Mortgage adviser wins No-Loan-No-Fee dispute
19 Jul 2022 Phenix Salon Suites brings lucrative property management franchise opportunity to NZ
19 Jul 2022 Locums strongly recommended for advisers
18 Jul 2022 NZ shares shake off inflation scare
18 Jul 2022 Inflation the big news today
18 Jul 2022 High inflation brings new challenges for home buyers
18 Jul 2022 Partners Life tells advisers more about the ‘claims squeeze’
18 Jul 2022 Wellbeing programmes aren’t just good for your health
18 Jul 2022 Answers to climate risk and housing getting closer
18 Jul 2022 Inflation hits 32 year high
15 Jul 2022 NZ shares fall as China growth slows
14 Jul 2022 NZ shares climb as investors absorb inflation data
14 Jul 2022 Don’t expect a housing market turn
14 Jul 2022 Borrowers should escape the worst despite big OCR jump – bank economist
14 Jul 2022 History may not repeat but it can rhyme
13 Jul 2022 NZ market not bothered by RBNZ hike
13 Jul 2022 RBNZ implements another big jump in the base interest rate
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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