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April 2022
25 Apr 2022 BNZ Life acquisition more complex than anticipated, says Partners Life
25 Apr 2022 Changes to the healthy homes standards coming
25 Apr 2022 High inflation adds to advisers' challenges
22 Apr 2022 King Salmon shares jump out of the water
22 Apr 2022 [GRTV] Ballantyne warns of ‘unintended consequences’ of licensing regime
22 Apr 2022 Celebrating Earth Day
22 Apr 2022 High inflation likely to lead to another 50bp OCR hike
22 Apr 2022 Spike in properties for sale as House Price Index drops
22 Apr 2022 Searching for that right level of diversification
22 Apr 2022 Ark gets downgraded
21 Apr 2022 Markets unmoved by record inflation
21 Apr 2022 Is health insurance still fit-for-purpose? The debate over mental health cover
21 Apr 2022 Latest figures on non-banks lending; Inflation at 30 year high
21 Apr 2022 Inflation hits 30-year high
21 Apr 2022 JMI Wealth expands investment team
21 Apr 2022 Non-bank lending moves slowly upwards
21 Apr 2022 [GRTV] Why a new KiwiSaver fund is launched
20 Apr 2022 F&P Healthcare bounces from 2-year low
20 Apr 2022 What Adrian Orr told the world about NZ
20 Apr 2022 Information gap as advisers and insurers struggle to comply with COFI
19 Apr 2022 NZ shares near month low; dollar at 2-month low
19 Apr 2022 RBNZ expresses concern over state spending
19 Apr 2022 Advisers give their views on unemployment insurance
18 Apr 2022 Ukraine invasion heightens already elevated volatility
18 Apr 2022 How big are financial advice businesses?
14 Apr 2022 Shares rise as investor try to pick inflation peak
14 Apr 2022 What economists thought of the big OCR hike; What people think about banks
14 Apr 2022 Why economists think yesterday's big OCR hike was right
14 Apr 2022 FSC shines a spotlight on how young people think about the economy
14 Apr 2022 People increasingly unhappy with banks
13 Apr 2022 Double trouble for markets as RBNZ hikes rates
13 Apr 2022 RBNZ delivers a 50 point hike to the OCR
13 Apr 2022 Fidelity Life launches new-look claims content
13 Apr 2022 What the RBNZ said: Monetary tightening brought forward
13 Apr 2022 What the RBNZ said: Monetary tightening brought forward
13 Apr 2022 Tenants from hell
13 Apr 2022 Devon Funds goes global
12 Apr 2022 Inflation sends shares sliding
12 Apr 2022 [OPINION] New four step application process for prospective tenants
12 Apr 2022 Flint Wealth gets responsible
12 Apr 2022 ANZ Investments MD now heads up advice firm
12 Apr 2022 New equities only KiwiSaver fund
11 Apr 2022 NZ shares fall on interest rate risk
11 Apr 2022 What researchers found when they looked at 3 million KiwiSaver accounts
11 Apr 2022 Health insurer response times balloon out
11 Apr 2022 RBNZ: Will they or won't they hike the OCR?
11 Apr 2022 Tips for claiming property expenses
11 Apr 2022 Divided opinion ahead of this week's monetary policy statement by RBNZ
11 Apr 2022 Mint rolled into new group; former ANZ boss joins the team
08 Apr 2022 Two small shares add some market drama
08 Apr 2022 Select Wealth Management appoints new BDM
08 Apr 2022 HER grows and faces change
08 Apr 2022 Reverse mortgages set new record
08 Apr 2022 Compulsory onsite inspections: scope of Reserve Bank’s power remains unclear
07 Apr 2022 Southern Cross launches new online tool for confirming procedure cover
07 Apr 2022 More ethical funds land on platform
07 Apr 2022 More credit woes
07 Apr 2022 More credit woes says Centrix
07 Apr 2022 Building consent values skyrocket
07 Apr 2022 Property prices and listings showing resilience
07 Apr 2022 Market transferring in buyers’ favour
07 Apr 2022 Cash will play bigger part in housing market
07 Apr 2022 Is Asteron for sale?
07 Apr 2022 Voluntary savings continue in KiwiSaver – ASB
06 Apr 2022 Air NZ shares and rights slip
06 Apr 2022 CCCFA changes finally revealed; Compliance nightmare
06 Apr 2022 Changes to CCCFA finally revealed
06 Apr 2022 Compliance too much for 44 year veteran; Rates rise: Knock, knock, knocking on 7%
06 Apr 2022 FMA to host forums on COFI implementation
05 Apr 2022 Musk’s Twitter buy boosts local tech stocks; Air NZ takes off
05 Apr 2022 An active investment managers lockdown tool kit
05 Apr 2022 How to design and fund a sucacessful health system: an expert’s view
05 Apr 2022 Kaplan looks to grow services to advisers
04 Apr 2022 NZ shares fall as Air NZ goes ex-rights
04 Apr 2022 Ethical and Impact Investment Awards are back again
04 Apr 2022 Northland Mortgage veteran considers quitting over 'compliance nightmare'
04 Apr 2022 Director Support Programme
04 Apr 2022 Former Mint director joins Public Trust
04 Apr 2022 “Finfluencers” and the law – which could include your social media posts
04 Apr 2022 Health experts predict more collaboration between public and private sectors, and ACC
04 Apr 2022 Changes styming tax deductibility become law
02 Apr 2022 Drug using tenant cops damages awards twice in one year
01 Apr 2022 Russia ends globalisation: Blackrock
01 Apr 2022 Air NZ retains altitude as investor buy into raise
01 Apr 2022 DIY landlords to escape regulations noose
01 Apr 2022 Investors back in the market with bigger mortgages
01 Apr 2022 Complaints against banks soar; Code committee not legal
01 Apr 2022 Bank complaints rise
01 Apr 2022 Rewarding the value hunters
01 Apr 2022 Missing members: concerns raised over legality of code committee
March 2022
31 Mar 2022 [The Wrap]
31 Mar 2022 NZ shares steady despite Air NZ's descent
31 Mar 2022 Ignite lights on new leadership
31 Mar 2022 AIA boss back
31 Mar 2022 Financial advice industry gets hard word on cyber security
30 Mar 2022 NZ shares rally under shadow of Air NZ capital raising
30 Mar 2022 Resolution Life CEO moves on
30 Mar 2022 Loan volumes fall
30 Mar 2022 Another month of falling loans – Centrix
29 Mar 2022 F&P Healthcare breaks five day market decline
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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