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November 2025
08 Nov 2025 10 things to know about mortgage lending right now
08 Nov 2025 The Great Yield Reset: Why Income Is Back in Focus on the NZX
07 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket shakes off Wall Street fall to end firm
07 Nov 2025 Mortgage holders still hedging their bets
07 Nov 2025 Paying advisers for KiwiSaver advice
06 Nov 2025 Ryman and Fletcher lift as NZ sharemarket ends nine-day winning streak
06 Nov 2025 Advisers fall out of love with BNZ
06 Nov 2025 BNZ again shuns advisers and the numbers show it
06 Nov 2025 Financial stress stabilises while household credit demand picks up
05 Nov 2025 Employment data dominates quiet day on NZ sharemarket
05 Nov 2025 Life and health: a tale of two sectors
05 Nov 2025 Fidelity adds cancer support, digital tools for advisers
05 Nov 2025 CRD watered down
04 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket gains as Fletcher hands over NZICC
04 Nov 2025 Westpac CEO fronts on trail commission decision
04 Nov 2025 Westpac CEO explains commission cut decision
04 Nov 2025 Lifetime celebrates 10 years with a new scheme under its belt
03 Nov 2025 Embracing Change
03 Nov 2025 NZ stocks ride wave of 2026 optimism
03 Nov 2025 Westpac's mortgage book grows with the support of advisers
03 Nov 2025 Westpac profit up 13%; Advisers account for more loans
03 Nov 2025 Market recovery signals consistent with interest rate falls
October 2025
31 Oct 2025 NZ stocks end firm after Sky, Vulcan, annual meetings
31 Oct 2025 39-minute processing, 95% claims paid, 164 new advisers trained
31 Oct 2025 Time to fix for longer; Have your say
31 Oct 2025 Only months not quarters to consider fixing home loan terms
30 Oct 2025 Freightways outlook and Fonterra vote drive upbeat day
30 Oct 2025 Another swipe at property investors
30 Oct 2025 NZ a standout for ethical investment funds flow
29 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket edges higher as media company NZME lifts earnings guidance
29 Oct 2025 OCR cuts forecast; TSB's new rate
29 Oct 2025 Harbour chooses “not a Wall St firm” for global private equity fund External Inbox
28 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket gains in Labour day catch-up
28 Oct 2025 Bets are on for OCR to fall even further
28 Oct 2025 MDRT announces 2026 chair appointments
27 Oct 2025 Wholesale changes to Partners’s offering
25 Oct 2025 Have Your Say in TMM’s Annual Mortgage Adviser Survey
24 Oct 2025 Sharemarket edges higher as F&P Healthcare weighs on gains
24 Oct 2025 The future or mortgage advice
24 Oct 2025 Five awards and new scholarship from Fidelity Life
24 Oct 2025 Mortgage advisers identify issues shaping the industry’s future
24 Oct 2025 Super alone won’t cut it in retirement
24 Oct 2025 Undisclosed referral fees damaging the mortgage industry
23 Oct 2025 Trauma Cover; the good, the bad, and the ugly
23 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket lifts as Skellerup update builds confidence
23 Oct 2025 Fast turn around times and reliabily win over advisers
22 Oct 2025 Morningstar to look under the hood of KiwiSaver funds
22 Oct 2025 What lenders need to do to win over advisers
22 Oct 2025 OCR may not keep falling for long
22 Oct 2025 Interest rate rises may be needed by the end of next year
22 Oct 2025 ASB's quarter to shine
21 Oct 2025 Guardians get an investment banker
21 Oct 2025 A full Pie fund is closed
20 Oct 2025 Former finance minister says capital gains tax almost irrelevant
20 Oct 2025 Capital gains tax almost irrelevant – English
17 Oct 2025 NZ stocks end lower while Eroad tanks
17 Oct 2025 NZ stocks end lower while Eroad tanks
17 Oct 2025 SOC gets global financial planning award
17 Oct 2025 Kiwi MDRT members outpace their global peers
17 Oct 2025 Long term rates need to come down; Take part in our adviser survey
17 Oct 2025 New Zealand’s retirement savings regime rated B
17 Oct 2025 Long term rates need to also come down
16 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket rises in late trading as Infratil rallies on datacentre deal
16 Oct 2025 Insync Funds Management expands its investment capability
16 Oct 2025 Westpac swings the axe on trail commissions; FANZ reacts
16 Oct 2025 Westpac scraps trail commissions on mortgages
16 Oct 2025 New Smart CEO & NZX-Group executive appointments announced
16 Oct 2025 Rules around ethical investing under review
15 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket lifts despite a2 Milk downgrade and takeover bid for KFC owner Restaurant Brands
15 Oct 2025 Fidelity Life's new Auckland and Northland BDM
15 Oct 2025 Adviser reaction to LVR easing; Adviser survey open
15 Oct 2025 Loosened LVR settings long overdue - adviser
14 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket down 0.5% amid PGW shuffle
14 Oct 2025 [Breaking News] RBNZ to ease LVR restrictions
14 Oct 2025 RBNZ to ease LVR restrictions
14 Oct 2025 FHB's active; Have your say on mortgage advice
14 Oct 2025 FMA appoints new economist a year after last one left
14 Oct 2025 First home buyers take advantage of soft housing market
13 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket starts week down 0.8%
13 Oct 2025 What's holding back first home buyers?
13 Oct 2025 What's the true value of financial advice?
13 Oct 2025 First home buyers stumbling at the own psychological hurdles
13 Oct 2025 Co-payment decision wasn’t made lightly, nib CEO says
11 Oct 2025 Chubb Life appoints new South Island BDM
10 Oct 2025 Focus on 2026: US market momentum and opportunities
10 Oct 2025 NZ stocks retreat from record high, down 0.7%
10 Oct 2025 New mortgage loan terms again yo-yoing
10 Oct 2025 5% is the magic savings number
10 Oct 2025 New mortgage loan terms again yo-yoing
09 Oct 2025 Ryman lifts as NZ sharemarket ends flat after rate‑cut rally fades
09 Oct 2025 Adviser to Adviser advice: Managing those damn emails
09 Oct 2025 Why this ex-insurer leads with health, not life
09 Oct 2025 New rules for meth contaminated houses
09 Oct 2025 FMT legend moves on
09 Oct 2025 More OCR cuts likely; Advisers react to Westpac's trail plans
09 Oct 2025 Not the end of OCR cuts
09 Oct 2025 FANZ to offer AI training for advisers
08 Oct 2025 Reserve Bank of NZ's rate cut lifts sharemarket as high‑yield stocks climb
08 Oct 2025 OCR Cut: What economists said
08 Oct 2025 OCR down 50 points: What the RBNZ said
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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.
2 weeks 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