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February 2021
22 Feb 2021 High bond yields rout equity market
22 Feb 2021 Six-month results show nib NZ earnings holding up
22 Feb 2021 Pāua team newbie
22 Feb 2021 [OBITUARY] Marie Quinn: Friend and colleague to many
22 Feb 2021 Record December lending
22 Feb 2021 Will the OCR change?; ANZ halts online mortgage applications
22 Feb 2021 IRD to fork out $6.6 million for KiwiSaver pay delay
22 Feb 2021 OCR Preview: official cash rate set to hold
22 Feb 2021 ANZ halts online mortgage applications
22 Feb 2021 Scams under-reported by Chinese New Zealanders: FMA
20 Feb 2021 [Get in Shape] Minister's first words; Botica busts myths; Get to know climate change; new report
19 Feb 2021 Rising bond yields pull shares lower
19 Feb 2021 Aussie manager buys into PMG
19 Feb 2021 NZ housing market set to cool
19 Feb 2021 What's the best mortgage strategy?
19 Feb 2021 What's the best mortgage strategy?
19 Feb 2021 Work needed in retirement income space
18 Feb 2021 [Opinion] King hit on Hickey
18 Feb 2021 Record profits and losses on show in earnings results
18 Feb 2021 ASB U-turn on investor new builds
18 Feb 2021 ASB U-turn on investor new builds
18 Feb 2021 FSPR updates: What advisers need to know
17 Feb 2021 Earnings season brings long-expected good news
17 Feb 2021 Investors pile in before LVR changes
17 Feb 2021 Tech a priority for NZX in 2021
17 Feb 2021 New build investor loan shutdown; Booming housing market continues
17 Feb 2021 ASB shut down new build investor loans
17 Feb 2021 Investors rush to beat LVRs
17 Feb 2021 Effective vaccine, better earnings spur on markets
16 Feb 2021 Shares bounce after five-day rout
16 Feb 2021 Biggest housing boom in 17 years
16 Feb 2021 Safety a priority for advisers: Financial Advice NZ
16 Feb 2021 NZFSG compliance hire ahead of March 15
16 Feb 2021 Data versus human
16 Feb 2021 Responsible talk not enough in 2021
16 Feb 2021 AMP plans 'investment renovation' and big changes to AdviceFirst
15 Feb 2021 Energy stocks fall as Contact raises capital
15 Feb 2021 TCFD: 'Know it, learn it, love it, because it’s here to stay'
15 Feb 2021 AIA new cancer health product introduced
15 Feb 2021 MMC: full acquisition of IFAA Group
15 Feb 2021 Advisers ready for lockdown part three; SBS rate cuts
15 Feb 2021 Advisers ready for lockdown
15 Feb 2021 What levels 2 and 3 mean for the market
15 Feb 2021 NZFSG creates compliance role
15 Feb 2021 Industry strong and ready for change
12 Feb 2021 ANZ admits breaching FMC Act
12 Feb 2021 Botica busts industry myths
12 Feb 2021 Floating rate options for advisers
12 Feb 2021 Non-bank floating rates fall
12 Feb 2021 Ares U-turn on AMP buyout
11 Feb 2021 NZ shares fall for third straight session
11 Feb 2021 From FMA to Generate
11 Feb 2021 Have home loan rates troughed?; ASB makes mortgagee promise
11 Feb 2021 Have mortgage rates troughed?
11 Feb 2021 ASB promises no forced mortgagee sales
11 Feb 2021 Three lessons for advisers from FADC case
10 Feb 2021 Sanford leads NZ shares lowers
10 Feb 2021 David Clark calls for better advice stories from industry
10 Feb 2021 Mercer NZ promotes acting CIO
10 Feb 2021 Impressive half-year results for Asteron Life
10 Feb 2021 Advisers react to LVR changes; HSBC sub 2% rate
10 Feb 2021 Sub 2% for HSBC
10 Feb 2021 Advisers react to LVR changes
10 Feb 2021 PAA Legacy Trust calling for 'innovation' from advisers
09 Feb 2021 Equities fall as inflation expectations rise
09 Feb 2021 Reserve Bank tightens LVR rules for investors
09 Feb 2021 Small business struggle; ASB enforces changes for investors
09 Feb 2021 Small businesses struggle
09 Feb 2021 Bank questions why investor confidence not higher
08 Feb 2021 Apostle arrives bearing new gift
08 Feb 2021 Smug or juggling?
05 Feb 2021 NZ shares bounce from week's losses
05 Feb 2021 ASB the latest to clamp down on investors
05 Feb 2021 Out of retirement villages and into the FSC
05 Feb 2021 Reverse mortgage market set to triple; TSB rate cuts
05 Feb 2021 FMA defends KiwiSaver fee guidance
05 Feb 2021 Reverse mortgage market set to triple
05 Feb 2021 Default KiwiSaver: Which providers are fighting to keep their status?
04 Feb 2021 Higher bond yields push equity prices lower
04 Feb 2021 Avanti slashes near-prime mortgage rate
04 Feb 2021 New business banking boss at ANZ
04 Feb 2021 BNZ halts high LVR investor loans; OCR trough called
04 Feb 2021 Rob Everett: The year ahead
03 Feb 2021 Economy at risk of overheating
03 Feb 2021 BNZ halts high LVR investor loans
03 Feb 2021 OCR predictions change amid strong data
03 Feb 2021 Senior Jarden hires join the party
03 Feb 2021 Saturn hails retiring Pirie
03 Feb 2021 ICBC and Kainga Ora sharpen rates; Housing market intervention expected
03 Feb 2021 What Elon Musk’s new title might mean for markets Or … Tesla’s share price, intrinsic value or market madness
03 Feb 2021 Intervention expected for housing market
03 Feb 2021 Trust law reform: the lowdown
02 Feb 2021 Equities dip as interest rates creep higher
02 Feb 2021 New chief economist starts at BNZ
02 Feb 2021 SBS cuts one year rate; non-bank SME lending grows
02 Feb 2021 Non-bank SME lending soars
02 Feb 2021 Kernel plugs into EVs and gets disruptive
02 Feb 2021 Mike Pero Mortgages hires
01 Feb 2021 GameStop chaos weighing on equity market
January 2021
31 Jan 2021 Review shows Super Fund on right track
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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.
2 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