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February 2022
08 Feb 2022 Travel stocks up as Aussie reopens
08 Feb 2022 As residential property returns dwindle commercial property will rise
08 Feb 2022 OECD notes Kiwi bank depositors get protection
08 Feb 2022 What’s all this about a public income insurance scheme?
07 Feb 2022 Partners Life reverts to original criteria for Premium Holidays and Policy Suspensions
07 Feb 2022 Magellan boss Hamish Douglass steps aside
05 Feb 2022 Responsible Investing – not a fleeting fad
04 Feb 2022 NZ tech stocks slide on Meta's mega miss
04 Feb 2022 Landlords to be belted again by Government
04 Feb 2022 Has Consumer got it right on insurance and advisers?
03 Feb 2022 Cigna New Zealand offers up to $30,000 free critical illness
03 Feb 2022 Travel stocks up as NZ border reopens
03 Feb 2022 OECD lends support to DTIs
03 Feb 2022 Inside the FMA
02 Feb 2022 Mainfreight shares hit $90 as market bounces
02 Feb 2022 Why banks can't have standardised forms
02 Feb 2022 Common approach by banks to loans might be nice but hard to achieve off – bank executives
02 Feb 2022 Unemployment falls to 3.2%
02 Feb 2022 Unemployment figures could prompt higher interest rates
02 Feb 2022 OECD says New Zealand does well but difficulties remain
01 Feb 2022 Bargain hunters drive NZ shares higher
01 Feb 2022 CCCFA terms released; Bank bosses summoned to Beehive
01 Feb 2022 Commission creep concerns FMA
01 Feb 2022 Southern Cross celebrates NZ's workforce heroes
January 2022
31 Jan 2022 CCCFA terms released; Bank bosses summoned to Beehive
31 Jan 2022 NZ shares bounce from sell-off
31 Jan 2022 Trade Me property prices reach highest on record
31 Jan 2022 Kiwi Wealth on the block?
31 Jan 2022 [The Wrap] The year of the adviser
30 Jan 2022 Inflation likely to continue - bank economists
30 Jan 2022 AIA appoints high powered board member
28 Jan 2022 NZX 50 index drops below 12,000 points
28 Jan 2022 Southern Cross Healthcare accelerates transformational change
28 Jan 2022 New appointment at RBNZ
28 Jan 2022 Inflation hits 5.9%
27 Jan 2022 Shares fall as inflation heats up
27 Jan 2022 Mike Pero CEO leaves industry
27 Jan 2022 We're borrowing too much: Bagrie
27 Jan 2022 CCCFA bad law but huge growth in credit is the bigger picture
27 Jan 2022 Smartshares first to get investment passport
26 Jan 2022 NZ shares up as Fed meeting looms
26 Jan 2022 CCCFA enquiry might have terms of reference afterall
26 Jan 2022 New lending product coming; From pepper spray to Pepper Money
26 Jan 2022 Financial prudence varies across the country
25 Jan 2022 A2 Milk jumps 6% as market falls
25 Jan 2022 Prospa prospers in NZ and plans new product
25 Jan 2022 Ex British police officer becomes senior manager at Pepper
25 Jan 2022 Nikko sticks with Ark's investment strategy despite hard times
24 Jan 2022 Sharemarket doesn't like NZ's omicron outbreak
24 Jan 2022 No nitpicking from non-bank lender: Inflationary storm coming
24 Jan 2022 Resimac seeks to avoid “nit picking” under CCCFA
24 Jan 2022 Mega landlord claims refuted
24 Jan 2022 Big jump in inflation forecast this week
22 Jan 2022 Tricky transition favours stock picking
21 Jan 2022 NZ shares finish shocker week down 3.5%
21 Jan 2022 Suncorp refreshes senior leadership
21 Jan 2022 ASB warns of high inflation, falling house prices
20 Jan 2022 Investors brace for omicron
20 Jan 2022 Auckland market turning for investors
20 Jan 2022 ANZ predicting 3% OCR; Non-banks add voice
20 Jan 2022 Non-bank lenders add their voice to over CCCFA woes
20 Jan 2022 Is the inflation genie out of the bottle?
19 Jan 2022 ANZ Bank now sees cash rate peaking at 3%
19 Jan 2022 NZ shares routed as ANZ forecasts OCR to hit 3%
19 Jan 2022 CCCFA enquiry starts; Endless bank policy changes
19 Jan 2022 Low key CCCFA enquiry starts
19 Jan 2022 Advisers inundated with policy changes by banks
19 Jan 2022 Ignite Advisers look to the future
18 Jan 2022 Landlords and investors still in sights of anti-investment sentiment
18 Jan 2022 IkeGPS up 8% on contract extension
18 Jan 2022 Cracks appearing in housing market
18 Jan 2022 Mortgage advisers closely watching CCCFA enquiry
18 Jan 2022 The return of value investing
17 Jan 2022 NZ shares climb in light trading
17 Jan 2022 Long wait times for loans
17 Jan 2022 Impatient buyers wait in limbo as banks take up LVR slack
17 Jan 2022 Flint investment platform ignited
17 Jan 2022 Job market an inflation risk: ANZ
14 Jan 2022 Minister agrees to look at CCCFA
14 Jan 2022 Minister orders enquiry into CCCFA
14 Jan 2022 First full week of 2022 share trading negative
14 Jan 2022 Another tile added to Mosaic
14 Jan 2022 The brutal impact of CCCFA
14 Jan 2022 CCCFA cuts mortgage acceptances by 23%
14 Jan 2022 Providing the personalised KiwiSaver advice that clients deserve, at scale...
13 Jan 2022 Serko bounces from low with inflation data 'not too hot'
13 Jan 2022 Non-bank deposit takers fail to elude latest Govt crackdown
13 Jan 2022 Non-bank deposit takers fail to elude latest Govt crackdown
12 Jan 2022 NZ shares fall as Serko hits 10-month low
12 Jan 2022 Mortgage lending likely to ease this year: CoreLogic
12 Jan 2022 Calls for more female advisers as money woes hit women hard
11 Jan 2022 NZ shares fall as investors face up to inflation 'bogeyman'
11 Jan 2022 Select Committee may look at CCCFA
11 Jan 2022 Select Committee may look at CCCFA next month
10 Jan 2022 Welcome Back; MP on CCCFA select committees asks for a review
10 Jan 2022 CCCFA “not understood” by politicians
07 Jan 2022 NZ shares flat as investors wait for job data
07 Jan 2022 Majority of Ross Asset Management investors win bigger payout
06 Jan 2022 NZ tech stocks hit hard as US Fed signals rate hikes
05 Jan 2022 Infratil boosts NZX 50 in first session of 2022
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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