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October 2021
21 Oct 2021 Second class suit stops A2 in its tracks
21 Oct 2021 Business as usual after Cigna sell-off
21 Oct 2021 ASB predicting even higher inflation
21 Oct 2021 Rival ups its Auckland expansion
21 Oct 2021 FMA sets cut off date for FAP licencing
20 Oct 2021 Frothy A2 Milk extends gain as investors find faith in daigou
20 Oct 2021 Compelling new investment option
20 Oct 2021 Cigna ups offers to advisers - enhances products
20 Oct 2021 Today's FAP focus; ANZ changes its mind
20 Oct 2021 Enforcement framework feedback opens
20 Oct 2021 ANZ changes its call on OCR hikes
20 Oct 2021 The lives we could save
20 Oct 2021 FOMO haunts property buyers
20 Oct 2021 100th full FAP licence issued
19 Oct 2021 Investor nerves steadied at Fletcher, Ebos AGMs
19 Oct 2021 New rules: 3 houses of 3 storeys – no resource consent
19 Oct 2021 Mortgage adviser made to pay $3,000
19 Oct 2021 Mortgage adviser pays more than $3,000 to end complaint
19 Oct 2021 Mann on a mission to diversify financial advice
18 Oct 2021 Kiwi flies on stonking inflation
18 Oct 2021 Investment avoidance not good enough says Pathfinder
18 Oct 2021 Red hot inflation = Higher mortgage rates; New franchise launched
18 Oct 2021 Inflation genie out of the bottle
18 Oct 2021 REINZ want healthy homes deadline extended
18 Oct 2021 The fastest rate of inflation in a decade
18 Oct 2021 Asteron launches promo to support local business
18 Oct 2021 Returning Kiwi takes up CFO role at Tower
18 Oct 2021 New Southern Cross CLT hospital finished by Christmas
18 Oct 2021 nib offers free mental health cover
18 Oct 2021 Simplicity cement long term relationship with MMC
18 Oct 2021 Nest Home Loans moves to franchising model
18 Oct 2021 Are significant rent rises on the way?
16 Oct 2021 An investment fund where someone other than the investor gets the returns
16 Oct 2021 Heater standard for rentals shows ‘serious deficiencies’
15 Oct 2021 Passive funds sell millions of Contact and Meridian shares
15 Oct 2021 FSCL sees spike in overall complaints
15 Oct 2021 Reflation, renewables and the road ahead: three predictions for global listed infrastructure 
15 Oct 2021 Holiday relief for advisers
15 Oct 2021 Delta fails to dampen equity markets
15 Oct 2021 Blanket wraps up domestic insurance for IFAs
15 Oct 2021 Mortgage advisers in line for holiday relief
14 Oct 2021 a2 climbs as short sellers scared off
14 Oct 2021 No new Govt moves on housing market
14 Oct 2021 Confidence remains high in property market
14 Oct 2021 FMA keeps watch on advertising rulebreakers
14 Oct 2021 REINZ: House prices nationwide continue cooling
14 Oct 2021 Financial Advice NZ conference moves online
13 Oct 2021 a2 shares spike as daigou returns
13 Oct 2021 Kernel Wealth plants seeds for the future with new ESG funds
13 Oct 2021 Fidelity Life forms new solutions and services team
13 Oct 2021 Investing in Wellywood
13 Oct 2021 AIA's 5590 report; reduce risks - live longer
12 Oct 2021 5th day of falls on the sharemarket
12 Oct 2021 No new moves on housing market: Minister
12 Oct 2021 Fidelity aims to take number two spot
12 Oct 2021 New property vulnerability index released
12 Oct 2021 Almost 600 advisers take wellbeing survey
12 Oct 2021 Property vulnerability revealed in new CoreLogic data
12 Oct 2021 CCCFA and adviser regs problem areas for banks; We need your feedback
12 Oct 2021 CCCFA and financial adviser reforms not well implemented; Bankers Association
12 Oct 2021 Pepper spices up its birthday
12 Oct 2021 Partners brings in actuarial expert
12 Oct 2021 TAP offers OATs to independent advisers
12 Oct 2021 RBNZ restructures
11 Oct 2021 Z Energy jumps but index suffers from ‘endemic covid’
11 Oct 2021 Higher fee KiwiSaver managers delivering superior returns
11 Oct 2021 Important Information
11 Oct 2021 Rising prices show no sign of stopping
11 Oct 2021 RBNZ changes leadership team structure
11 Oct 2021 The Co-operative Bank appoints a new CEO
11 Oct 2021 House prices rise again
11 Oct 2021 NZ Super invests in offshore energy infrastructure
11 Oct 2021 Tribunal: Baches and the RTA
11 Oct 2021 Pathfinder unpacks its Easy Crypto investment
09 Oct 2021 [The Wrap] It's time to consider the impact of regulatory change
08 Oct 2021 First adviser-led KiwiSaver scheme
08 Oct 2021 NZ shares slip as investors sell yield stocks
08 Oct 2021 Kernel's seed swelling
08 Oct 2021 Cigna business sold
08 Oct 2021 Rob Everett's new role revealed
08 Oct 2021 Commercial: Proposed legislation shoots tenants in foot
08 Oct 2021 Auckland market crushed but not shut down
08 Oct 2021 More changes to floating rates
08 Oct 2021 FundSource gets new owner
08 Oct 2021 New Deputy Governor at RBNZ
08 Oct 2021 Last days for adviser wellbeing survey feedback
07 Oct 2021 Devon creates head of retail role
07 Oct 2021 Dairy stocks lead NZX 50 lower
07 Oct 2021 Du Val Group advertising 'likely to mislead or deceive investors'
07 Oct 2021 Average asking price rising
07 Oct 2021 Mortgage interest rates: Big step up predicted
07 Oct 2021 $5000 scholarship looks to attract new CFPs
06 Oct 2021 Shares and dollar fall as RBNZ pulls the trigger
06 Oct 2021 Top deck reshuffle at RBNZ
06 Oct 2021 Mixed reactions to OCR increase
06 Oct 2021 Easy Crypto nets $17 million in first capital raise
06 Oct 2021 REACTION: OCR up; What people are saying; ANZ quick to hike
06 Oct 2021 What the RBNZ said about increasing the OCR
06 Oct 2021 Tower enlists AI partner to bust claims fraud
06 Oct 2021 Bankers Association agrees rules can be difficult
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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