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October 2020
01 Oct 2020 NZFSG merges with Kepa
01 Oct 2020 Values on the rise again - CoreLogic
01 Oct 2020 Generate make $15 million impact investment to Salvation Army
01 Oct 2020 Low listings boosting prices
September 2020
30 Sep 2020 Castle Point wins blue chip account
30 Sep 2020 A2's decline cancels property gains on NZX today
30 Sep 2020 Resilient consent numbers surprise
30 Sep 2020 Non-bank lending soars
30 Sep 2020 Non-bank lending soars
30 Sep 2020 Wairarapa on the move
30 Sep 2020 Liz Koh: Model portfolios “inevitable”
29 Sep 2020 Dairy decline pulls market lower; A2 leads the way
29 Sep 2020 Growing calls to overhaul Responsible Lending Code
29 Sep 2020 Growing calls to overhaul Responsible Lending Code
29 Sep 2020 Pāua Wealth Management look to make a splash with new appointment
29 Sep 2020 Adapting to commercial’s new normal
29 Sep 2020 FMA Supervision Insight Report: The good, the bad and the ugly
29 Sep 2020 How elections move markets
28 Sep 2020 Shares flat as utilities soar while A2 plunges
28 Sep 2020 AIA policy encourages Kiwis to ‘share the love’
28 Sep 2020 MMC re-brand future focused
28 Sep 2020 Healthy Homes standards: to back or to scrap?
28 Sep 2020 Australia scraps responsible lending laws — advisers react
28 Sep 2020 Advisers hopeful about Aussie lending changes
26 Sep 2020 It’s time to level up and address the needs of the modern investor
26 Sep 2020 TAP launches adviser academy to 'raise the bar for professionalism'
25 Sep 2020 Shares bounce on big banks boost
25 Sep 2020 [GRTV] Depressing imbalances in IP market: Hutchinson
25 Sep 2020 Australia scraps responsible lending laws
25 Sep 2020 Southland is tops for investors
25 Sep 2020 August lending record; Kiwibank pays $5 million to customers
25 Sep 2020 Cullen reflects on KiwiSaver, Super Fund and capital gains
25 Sep 2020 FMA: No excuses for shoddy conduct
24 Sep 2020 Kiwi falls on economic concern
24 Sep 2020 August record for mortgage lending
24 Sep 2020 Mortgage Express hires Christchurch adviser
24 Sep 2020 What the Reserve Bank's latest move means for housing
24 Sep 2020 Kiwibank to pay customers $5.2 million over home loan failings
24 Sep 2020 Cheap funding for banks imminent
24 Sep 2020 Movac fund secures Kiwi Invest backing
23 Sep 2020 Pushpay leads stock market higher
23 Sep 2020 Asteron mints new Head of Life role
23 Sep 2020 RBNZ bank funding programme imminent: reaction
23 Sep 2020 OCR decision revealed
23 Sep 2020 New renters' guide for tenants
23 Sep 2020 Kiwibank sees lending rise; OCR decision later
23 Sep 2020 Day of reckoning could be messy: Zollner
23 Sep 2020 Kiwibank sees lending rise: KPMG
22 Sep 2020 NZ shares buck global sell-off
22 Sep 2020 Growth halts for Capital rents
22 Sep 2020 Greer steps down as Loan Market CEO; ICBC rate cut
22 Sep 2020 Greer steps down as Loan Market NZ CEO
22 Sep 2020 Time is running out for 2000 unregistered advisers
21 Sep 2020 Profit taking pulls shares down
21 Sep 2020 Call for rent caps after freeze ends
21 Sep 2020 Reserve Bank to talk up negative OCR: preview survey
21 Sep 2020 RBNZ to talk up negative OCR: preview survey
21 Sep 2020 Insurance Act Review forges on
21 Sep 2020 Ratings agency welcomes climate risk reporting
19 Sep 2020 ESG themes from company reporting season
18 Sep 2020 Strong kiwi weighs down shares
18 Sep 2020 High demand keeps pushing prices up
18 Sep 2020 Heartland reverse mortgage book grows by 10%
17 Sep 2020 FMA details Covid-19 response
17 Sep 2020 Global markets dip as US Fed disappoints
17 Sep 2020 Kiwibank about to enter the adviser market
17 Sep 2020 Specialist lender appoints new CFO
17 Sep 2020 Kiwibank just over a month away from entering adviser market
17 Sep 2020 Heartland reverse mortgage book grows 10%
17 Sep 2020 Mortgage Express hires new Otago adviser
17 Sep 2020 Stewart Financial Group to pay $2k over abandoned ERA bid
16 Sep 2020 Less gloomy outlook boosts kiwi; NZ shares rise
16 Sep 2020 Former AMP Capital man joins Salt
16 Sep 2020 Southern Cross posts surplus after returning $50m to members
16 Sep 2020 The pros and cons of ‘standard’ in compliance
16 Sep 2020 Resimac in $300m mortgage offering
16 Sep 2020 Resimac in $300m mortgage offering
16 Sep 2020 COMMENT: Never a right time to invest – why buyers need to act now
16 Sep 2020 Nikko reveals new strategy for income investors
15 Sep 2020 Adviser complaints increase, IFSO says
15 Sep 2020 Sharemarket misses regional rally; NZX offline - again
15 Sep 2020 New Zealand to require financial sector to report on climate risk
15 Sep 2020 Asteron Life: One fifth of SMEs don’t know where to find an adviser
15 Sep 2020 Cigna announces multi-benefit discount on new policies
15 Sep 2020 Ex-partner’s behaviour not a tenancy breach
15 Sep 2020 Are branch customers getting preferential treatment?
15 Sep 2020 Responsible investors ahead of the game
15 Sep 2020 Are branch customers getting preferential treatment?
15 Sep 2020 Reporting season and forecasting a waste of time
15 Sep 2020 Kiwi Invest reveal new asset allocation strategist
14 Sep 2020 NZ shares rise as THL bolsters sentiment
14 Sep 2020 Online innovation brings huge strides forward in digital adviser technology
14 Sep 2020 Expect house prices to keep rising - Westpac
14 Sep 2020 Turnaround times: how do the banks compare?
14 Sep 2020 Turnaround times: how do the banks compare?
14 Sep 2020 [GRTV] Boyle on KiwiSaver changes
14 Sep 2020 Eat My Lunch founder joins Simplicity
14 Sep 2020 MMC successfully reach for the cloud
12 Sep 2020 What the heck is a consumer data right?
11 Sep 2020 Profit-taking pulls shares lower
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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