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December 2020
21 Dec 2020 Big banks say no to 40% investor deposits
21 Dec 2020 Big banks say no to 40% investor deposits
21 Dec 2020 Fine details of FSLAA revealed
21 Dec 2020 Select Wealth sticks with MMC
19 Dec 2020 Life Insurance, Covid and KiwiSaver in spotlight in FMA's 2020 annual report
18 Dec 2020 Shares plummet as A2 shocks market
18 Dec 2020 How will 40% deposit requirements affect the market?
18 Dec 2020 How will 40% deposit requirements affect the market?
18 Dec 2020 Trail CRM to launch aggregator group
17 Dec 2020 NZ equities and dollar follow GDP higher
17 Dec 2020 Trail CRM to launch aggreggator group
17 Dec 2020 Partners snares BNZ Life
16 Dec 2020 Investors in a better mood and drive sharemarket higher
16 Dec 2020 Cigna’s adviser network strengthens with swathe of new appointments
16 Dec 2020 Effective vaccine, better earnings spur on markets
16 Dec 2020 Advisers react to ANZ investor decision; Bright outlook for non-banks
16 Dec 2020 Bright outlook for non-banks
16 Dec 2020 No appetite for PI any longer: compliance expert
15 Dec 2020 NZ shares fall as covid concerns investors
15 Dec 2020 Advisers react to ANZ's LVR decision
15 Dec 2020 MMC to launch new client investor experience
15 Dec 2020 ANZ gets tough on investors
15 Dec 2020 ANZ gets tough on investors
15 Dec 2020 FMA sets expectations for issuers of ‘green’ and ‘responsible’ funds
14 Dec 2020 NZ shares fall from record
14 Dec 2020 Housing crisis a supply issue
14 Dec 2020 New adviser aboard Mortgage Express
14 Dec 2020 Top 10 investment lessons
14 Dec 2020 Reserve Bank asks for DTIs
13 Dec 2020 Adviser appears before FADC on record keeping charges
12 Dec 2020 [The Wrap] Industry blindsided by PI decision
11 Dec 2020 F&P Healthcare rises while energy stocks fall
11 Dec 2020 Reserve Bank asks for DTIs
11 Dec 2020 Business lending boost in 2021?
11 Dec 2020 Business lending boost in 2021?
11 Dec 2020 FMA issues formal warning for market manipulation
10 Dec 2020 Sharemarket rally pauses, but good gains for some stocks
10 Dec 2020 NZX launch new regulatory agency: NZ RegCo
10 Dec 2020 Why is it so hard to build a home?
10 Dec 2020 Development loans fall
10 Dec 2020 OPINION: Why doing good is good for business
10 Dec 2020 FMA: Advisers without PI should 'take the bull by the horns'
09 Dec 2020 Infratil surge pushes NZX to new record
09 Dec 2020 Mortgage advisers against bright-line test extension
09 Dec 2020 SHARE outlines growth plans
09 Dec 2020 SHARE outlines growth plans
09 Dec 2020 PI cover in doubt for small adviser firms
08 Dec 2020 NZ shares caught in global hunt for clean energy
08 Dec 2020 Renewable electricity news drives NZX 50 move
08 Dec 2020 Advisers slowly warming to Partner’s Customer Outcome Matrix
08 Dec 2020 Fidelity Life and Sharecare part company
08 Dec 2020 Why the housing market won't cool
08 Dec 2020 NZX's wrap platform tops $7 billion
07 Dec 2020 FSC: Get In Shape seminars to continue in 2021
07 Dec 2020 New initiative sees travel brokers retain as insurance advisers
07 Dec 2020 Advisers against bright-line test extension
07 Dec 2020 New guard to helm Perpetual Guardian Group
07 Dec 2020 Advisers against bright-line test extension
07 Dec 2020 Are model portfolios an idea that is transferable to insurance?
06 Dec 2020 Travel agents get their financial advice wings
04 Dec 2020 NZX 50 falls as investors get ready for summer
04 Dec 2020 Good Returns Fund Manager of the Year 2020 winners announced
04 Dec 2020 'Bullying' banking conduct
04 Dec 2020 OPINION: Wholesale investor regime no loophole
04 Dec 2020 Charge of the lite (advice) brigade
04 Dec 2020 Jeff Royle and Resimac team up for investor loans
04 Dec 2020 Data security: What advisers need to know
03 Dec 2020 Listed exporters hurting from sky high kiwi
03 Dec 2020 Jeff Royle and Resimac team up for investor loans
03 Dec 2020 BNZ warned over responsible lending; Mike Pero Mortgages hires
03 Dec 2020 Mike Pero Mortgages makes new hires
03 Dec 2020 Advice gap in stark relief
03 Dec 2020 Neglecting financial advice costs health and wealth
02 Dec 2020 NZ shares flat as strong kiwi saps rally
02 Dec 2020 Cigna announce double appointment to its board
02 Dec 2020 BNZ warned over responsible lending failings
02 Dec 2020 Australian report raises alarm over life insurance’s future
02 Dec 2020 Is a bright-line test extension imminent?; Calls to fix the housing market
02 Dec 2020 Is a bright-line test extension imminent?
02 Dec 2020 Time to stop the finger-pointing on housing
02 Dec 2020 Milford unveil KiwiSaver digital advice tools
01 Dec 2020 A2 Milk leads sharemarket decline
01 Dec 2020 Strategi Institute celebrates top rating
01 Dec 2020 Westpac changes OCR call; Mortgage Lab training and development hire
01 Dec 2020 Westpac changes OCR forecast
01 Dec 2020 nib appoints new adviser partner manager
01 Dec 2020 Mortgage Lab makes learning and development hire
01 Dec 2020 The two code standards that advisers need to know
November 2020
30 Nov 2020 F&P Healthcare gives NZX 50 an end of month surge
30 Nov 2020 Finalists announced for Good Returns Fund Manager of the Year 2020
30 Nov 2020 SBS cuts two, three, four-year rates
30 Nov 2020 First home buyers taking risks; Advisers react to DTI talk
30 Nov 2020 First home buyers taking risks
30 Nov 2020 Using nursery rhymes to promote life insurance
30 Nov 2020 C-suite strengthened at MMC
30 Nov 2020 Housing market to cool? Yeah Right
29 Nov 2020 Cigna policy enhancements and new adviser toolkit announced
28 Nov 2020 Privacy and process why it is crucial to your business
28 Nov 2020 Good Returns Fund Manager of the Year Awards back for 2020
27 Nov 2020 F&P Healthcare rally pushes shares higher
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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