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November 2021
11 Nov 2021 Synergy creates portfolio supermarket
10 Nov 2021 NZ shares fall as Pushpay touches 12-month low
10 Nov 2021 Most bank customers earning nothing
10 Nov 2021 BNZ gets more business from advisers, but that may change
09 Nov 2021 NZ shares up as earnings results loom
09 Nov 2021 House prices should fall next year - Westpac
09 Nov 2021 BNZ's profit up 74%
09 Nov 2021 Cigna campaign benefits customers and advisers
09 Nov 2021 AIA offers Best Doctors to group scheme customers
09 Nov 2021 No jab, no job - legal rights in the workplace
09 Nov 2021 Codes must have consequences
08 Nov 2021 NZX 50 falls as F&P Healthcare slips
08 Nov 2021 nib set to expand into life insurance
08 Nov 2021 nib buys Kiwi Insurance
08 Nov 2021 The tide is turning on house prices
08 Nov 2021 [RESEND] What keeps you awake at night? No jab, no job - legal rights in the workplace
08 Nov 2021 Bridging the protection gap - insurers need to work harder
07 Nov 2021 [GRTV] Rob Everett on value for money, the great KiwiSaver land grab and fees
06 Nov 2021 Have yur say; SBS appoints new CEO
06 Nov 2021 SBS appoints new CEO
05 Nov 2021 Global central banks keep rates low
05 Nov 2021 [The Wrap] Changes in the wind
05 Nov 2021 JMI Wealth adds yet another adviser
05 Nov 2021 Have your say; Everett fires back at bank boss
05 Nov 2021 Everett fires back at Drylie
05 Nov 2021 Self-reporting viewed as best practice by the FMA
05 Nov 2021 AMP Life exits life insurance for good
05 Nov 2021 SBS Bank buys advisory firm
05 Nov 2021 How global supply chain disruptions have caught out central banks in 2021.
04 Nov 2021 Property stocks pull NZX 50 lower
04 Nov 2021 Investors in a race to zero
04 Nov 2021 TMM roadshow coming: Mark Your Diary today
04 Nov 2021 Two new executive appointments at Tower
04 Nov 2021 Westpac forecasting an even higher OCR
03 Nov 2021 Markets muted after ‘ridiculous’ employment data
03 Nov 2021 Resolution Life resurrects AMP's insurance business
03 Nov 2021 FSC launches financial wellbeing hub
03 Nov 2021 AMP buries the remains of its life insurance business
03 Nov 2021 Britannia needs you - a solid opportunity for advisers
03 Nov 2021 RBNZ expands on DTI plans; Grab your seat at the TMM Roadshow; Nearly half ANZ's business comes from advisers
03 Nov 2021 Reserve Bank gives more details on DTIs
03 Nov 2021 Established Mike Pero franchise for sale in Christchurch
03 Nov 2021 Tower secures National Pacific Insurance
03 Nov 2021 More advisers needed
03 Nov 2021 Landlord evictions clarified under Covid restrictions
02 Nov 2021 New Zealanders have one very large egg in their wealth basket
02 Nov 2021 NZ shares lower as RBA scraps rate targets
02 Nov 2021 nib offers two months free cover online
02 Nov 2021 Covid puts pressure on premiums
02 Nov 2021 AML firm raises $30 mill
02 Nov 2021 Mint Asset Management eyes up the adviser market
02 Nov 2021 Advisers write nearly half of all ANZ's loans
01 Nov 2021 NZX 50 falls as Westpac's margin tanks
01 Nov 2021 10 regions hit record high sales prices
01 Nov 2021 Aurora shines in Deloitte Fast 50
01 Nov 2021 Southern Cross strengthens executive team
01 Nov 2021 Westpac profits; Have your say
01 Nov 2021 Westpac reports higher earnings
01 Nov 2021 New accounting standards = more costs for insurers
October 2021
30 Oct 2021 Milford adds to its intermediary team
30 Oct 2021 ANZ adds global infrastructure fund to OneAnswer
30 Oct 2021 [The Wrap] Reflections of Rob Everett's reign
30 Oct 2021 [GRTV] The difficulties of regulating financial advisers
29 Oct 2021 [GRTV] The difficulties of regulating financial advisers
29 Oct 2021 NZX 50 finishes month on a high
29 Oct 2021 Non-disclosure case highlights need for better records
29 Oct 2021 Funds' net-zero committment must be credible
29 Oct 2021 What do you think of BNZ's DTIs? News on TSB and ANZ
29 Oct 2021 BNZ first bank to introduce DTIs
29 Oct 2021 TSB looks to have avoided Kiwibank's rate promise problems
29 Oct 2021 Competency standards - to move forward, start at the finish
28 Oct 2021 Inflation pushes bond yields to new high
28 Oct 2021 ANZ profit up 44%
28 Oct 2021 AIA NZ offers more support to advisers
28 Oct 2021 Small business lending market heats up
28 Oct 2021 Verhaart ends five year stint at Kiwi Wealth
28 Oct 2021 House price growth on the downward slide
28 Oct 2021 Small business lending market heats up
28 Oct 2021 Death by a thousand regulations
28 Oct 2021 If done correctly replacement not a problem
28 Oct 2021 Mixed forecast for mortgage advisers
27 Oct 2021 NZX falls on A2's weak margins
27 Oct 2021 Salt adds to its research team
27 Oct 2021 Partners Life rebrands
27 Oct 2021 FSC backs target dates for FAP licencing
27 Oct 2021 The dangers of home loan holidays
27 Oct 2021 KiwiSaver in colour: why it shouldn’t be the new black
26 Oct 2021 Synlait shares slump on record milk price
26 Oct 2021 Advisers face tough environment due to Covid
26 Oct 2021 Embracing change - how regulation will improve financial advice
26 Oct 2021 What do retired bank CEOs do? Find out here
25 Oct 2021 Tribunal: Anti-social behaviour – tenancy terminated
22 Oct 2021 NZX50 limps into Labour weekend
22 Oct 2021 Climate change disclosure rules pass final hurdle
22 Oct 2021 Mindful Money: Financing for a low emissions future
22 Oct 2021 Investor juggernaut slowly grinding down
22 Oct 2021 Wealthpoint adds experienced adviser in venture with Rothbury
22 Oct 2021 Milford expands investment team
22 Oct 2021 AMP Wealth management continues to bleed funds
22 Oct 2021 The long, hard road to good conduct
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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