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December 2025
13 Dec 2025 Two stories that caught our eye this week
12 Dec 2025 NZ stocks eke out gain as investors tread water
12 Dec 2025 Opes censured by FMA for poor practices
11 Dec 2025 Retirement stocks benefit on quiet day for NZ sharemarket
11 Dec 2025 Using AI to provide advice may be breaking the law; First impressions of new RBNZ guv; Westpac asking questions
11 Dec 2025 AI financial advice maybe breaching the law
11 Dec 2025 Booster's innovation fund grows its pipeline of opportunities
10 Dec 2025 Gentrack sell-off drives NZ sharemarket down
10 Dec 2025 New RBNZ gov Anna Breman: so far, so good
10 Dec 2025 Westpac asks RBNZ to comment on conditions
10 Dec 2025 All Generate's funds get the ethical tick
10 Dec 2025 And just like that rates start rising; Westpac hikes interest rates
09 Dec 2025 NZ sharemarket down 0.2%
09 Dec 2025 Booster Innovation Fund strengthens strategic university partnerships to boost NZ innovation.
09 Dec 2025 Generate lowers fees
09 Dec 2025 Life expectancy should be bigger news than it is
08 Dec 2025 NZX sharemarket flat, up 0.02%
08 Dec 2025 Chapter of economic bad news closing - ASB
08 Dec 2025 The Technology Everyone Got Right (but it didn’t necessarily make them rich)
05 Dec 2025 FMA chair Stobo under investigation
05 Dec 2025 Fisher and Paykel Healthcare drives NZ stocks to weaker finish
05 Dec 2025 Clarity for Clarity Funds
05 Dec 2025 Mortgage pain could return before Christmas
05 Dec 2025 Golden moment as new funds go live
04 Dec 2025 Ebos Group sell-off pushes down NZ sharemarket
04 Dec 2025 Good house buying conditions, but little activity; What's going on?
04 Dec 2025 Buyers sitting on the sidelines in best time to buy in a decade
04 Dec 2025 FundRock searches for a new leader
04 Dec 2025 Castlepoint funds take unexpected hit
04 Dec 2025 Yeo steps back from BIML board
03 Dec 2025 NZ sharemarket lifts late as dairy stocks gain
03 Dec 2025 AIA launches cheaper trauma product aimed at cost-pressed customers
03 Dec 2025 Should you care about Aged Care?
03 Dec 2025 Another FAP licence taken away
02 Dec 2025 NZ sharemarket up despite crypto concerns
02 Dec 2025 Differing views on 50-year mortgage
02 Dec 2025 Big fall in mortgages rolling over onto lower rates still to come
02 Dec 2025 Loan Market on a roll; Lots more rollovers to come
01 Dec 2025 Partners Life named top life insurer
01 Dec 2025 NZ sharemarket starts December down 0.3%
01 Dec 2025 Loan Market's 2025 Professional Development Day Highlights Standout Year and Bold Growth Vision
01 Dec 2025 Questions are being asked about bank cashbacks
01 Dec 2025 Will banks be able to process applications qualifying for cash backs in time?
November 2025
28 Nov 2025 NZ stocks end firmly as outlook brightens
27 Nov 2025 [Steve Wright] Why advisers must read policy wordings - Part One
27 Nov 2025 Ryman and Tower lift but gentailers pull NZ sharemarket lower
27 Nov 2025 Another FAP licence taken away
27 Nov 2025 Mindful Money sends SOS to fund managers to save the oceans
26 Nov 2025 Fisher & Paykel Healthcare drives sharemarket up
26 Nov 2025 OCR Wrap; Who has cut the most?
26 Nov 2025 RBNZ has probably done cutting with OCR now at 2.25%
26 Nov 2025 BREAKING NEWS: OCR cut
26 Nov 2025 OCR Cut: What the RBNZ said
26 Nov 2025 OCR looming; FANZ supports KiwiSaver changes; Latest housing market update
26 Nov 2025 Houses selling at a loss hit a 12 year high
26 Nov 2025 Fin Advice NZ backs retirement report
25 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket finishes flat, down 0.1%
24 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket starts week up 0.6%
24 Nov 2025 Huge surge in borrowers chasing big cash back offers
21 Nov 2025 Nvidia slump drags Wall Street and NZ sharemarket lower
21 Nov 2025 OCR Preview: How far is far enough for the RBNZ?
21 Nov 2025 OCR Preview: How far is far enough for the RBNZ?
21 Nov 2025 Rising costs require fresh thinking, AIA NZ CEO says
20 Nov 2025 Nvidia earnings boost global markets as NZ sharemarket closes up
20 Nov 2025 Flat market won’t generate much capital gains tax
19 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket dips as big stocks weigh despite KMD gains
19 Nov 2025 Asteron Life gets ratings boost
19 Nov 2025 Westpac likely to book surprise wind-fall by ending trail commissions
19 Nov 2025 Mixed reviews from advisers on FMA regulation
19 Nov 2025 Westpac likely to book one-off profit by axing trail commissions
19 Nov 2025 Banks’ profit on everyday accounts to come under scrutiny
18 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket falls over 1%
18 Nov 2025 Complaints are on the rise - here’s how to handle them
18 Nov 2025 Growth in FAPs and FAs sustained over the last 18 months
18 Nov 2025 Shaping the Future of Financial Advice: An Interview on OMNIMax’s Investment Adviser Tool
18 Nov 2025 Southern Cross Health Trust appoints new chair
18 Nov 2025 Online refixing works for some, but not all borrowers
18 Nov 2025 Why refixing deserves more than five minutes
17 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket starts new week up 0.2%
17 Nov 2025 A chat with ANZ's CEO
17 Nov 2025 MDRT membership now open for 2026
17 Nov 2025 ANZ sees adviser business dropping but wants to turn things around
17 Nov 2025 Minister not rushing to respond to Retirement report
14 Nov 2025 NZ stocks take Wall Street lead to end down 1%
14 Nov 2025 FMT appoints national strategic partnerships manager
14 Nov 2025 How to fix the retirement system
13 Nov 2025 NZX edges lower as Infratil, profit-taking weigh
12 Nov 2025 Mainfreight result lifts sharemarket as investors eye Infratil update
12 Nov 2025 Baden Martin steps down as NZFSG CEO
12 Nov 2025 Advisers should be more involved in technology develoment: White paper
12 Nov 2025 White paper urges central technology role for mortgage advisers
12 Nov 2025 Complaints are on the rise - here’s how to handle them
12 Nov 2025 Investors eye local recovery
11 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket dips ahead of Mainfreight and Infratil results
11 Nov 2025 Booster adds senior portfolio manager
11 Nov 2025 Advisers write less business with ANZ in the past year
10 Nov 2025 NZX flat as Vital Healthcare announces $200m capital raise
10 Nov 2025 ANZ lessened reliance on advisers in year ended Sept
10 Nov 2025 Bank mortgage lending on target to be the biggest since the pandemic
08 Nov 2025 TMM Weekend Read: 10 things to know about the mortgage market
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Latest Comments
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
As an investor, it is completely unacceptable to me that Total Remuneration continues if compulsion is brought in. It is simply wrong to continue putting downward pressure on salary and wages, particularly for people on minimum wage in a country that aspires to lift wages over time and raise the standard of living for NZers. National will lose my vote as a serious investor if they continue down the Total Remuneration path. No question...
1 week ago David Lawton
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
This is just about the only online space outside of Newstalk ZB facebook comments where speaking out against blatant wage theft by multinationals is considered 'PC'. And yet still we wonder why those pesky younger generations of potential customers wholesale refuse to engage with traditional financial services. Couldn't be because our mindsets are stuck in the 1950s - no, it must be the kids who are wrong.
1 week ago Ross Alexander
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
Murray, yup, agree with you. I see conflict of interests - the bigger the fund size, the more fees collected. Remuneration should be strictly a commercial decision because employers are the ones paying the wages. NOT for some "expert" preference. Well, an employer's budget permit a $100k package, he can pay either a) $88k salary + employer contribute $12k KS, or b) $94k salary of which $6k deducted for KS + employer contribute $6k. Depending how PC you guys want to be, and how much time and taxpayers' money you want to waste arguing about the structure.
1 week ago W K
Health and life insurers out of climate reporting
@ Murray D Weatherston - well said. The climate related disclosure (CRD) requirement for the financial services industry is yet another example of the last Government adding unnecessary cost and complexity to business. Currently banks and insurers have to hire more staff specifically to meet their new climate disclosure requirements and these costs inevitably get past on to customers. The New Zealand consumer continues to be saddled with additional costs due to an avalanche of overregulation much of which has questionable benefit. The only people who seem to be winning from this additional regulation are Wellington bureaucrats and those climate enthusiasts’ who are positioned to make a buck or secure a job. None of New Zealand's biggest climate polluters are associated with the financial services industry. Stats published by the Environmental Protection Authority in 2022 showed the biggest emitters were for milk, petrol, fossil (or natural) gas and meat businesses, with electricity, and steel companies rounding out the top group because of their fossil fuel use. By contrast, many of New Zealand’s biggest employers and profit makers (including banks, vineyards, telcos, healthcare companies and renewable energy providers) didn’t appear in the top climate polluter ranks because their emissions weren’t even high enough to qualify for compulsory reporting. As another reader of Good Returns said last year "I suspect we’ll look back on this climate reporting in years to come, with confusion & questions. Whilst there is no doubt that climate controls are increasingly important, I’m unsure whether the energy, effort & expense in producing these reports are the best use of resources &/or going to make any difference…” I look forward to the Ministry of Regulation reviewing and ultimately deciding to remove climate related disclosures as a compliance requirement for all of the New Zealand financial services industry.
1 week ago Simon Rule
KiwiSaver an option for mortgage advisers seeking ongoing income, provider says
Wy would any mortgage or insurance adviser refer their client to a kiwi saver provider/scheme that the owners also own a competing mortgage advisor and insurance company, whom already has a history of growing group schemes and then marketing to those customers directly for their own business entities.
2 weeks ago Valkyrie Vulcan