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September 2020
11 Sep 2020 KiwiSaver - After the Covid downturn
11 Sep 2020 Covid be damned – the market is booming
11 Sep 2020 Turnaround time turmoil
11 Sep 2020 Turnaround time turmoil
11 Sep 2020 Bond specialist raises concerns over recent FMA guidelines
10 Sep 2020 NZ shares bounce with Wall St
10 Sep 2020 Tahito appoints AIA chief strategy officer as chair
10 Sep 2020 Real estate price-fixing saga ends with big penalty
10 Sep 2020 ANZ redeploys staff to broker applications
10 Sep 2020 Managers have abdicated responsibility: Kiwi Invest
10 Sep 2020 ANZ redeploys staff to broker applications
09 Sep 2020 Stock market selloff returns from holiday
09 Sep 2020 Southern Cross to bring mental health programme to kiwi kids
09 Sep 2020 AMP Capital appoints new fixed income analyst
09 Sep 2020 Interest rates, not bargains, driving investors
09 Sep 2020 Interest rates not bargains driving investors
09 Sep 2020 IRD offers guidance on cryptoassets
08 Sep 2020 Sky TV leads gains for second day
08 Sep 2020 Struggling to secure finance?
08 Sep 2020 Asteron Life goes live with new mental health support service
08 Sep 2020 COMMENT: Furore over Healthy Homes story misleading
08 Sep 2020 Economy faring better than expected; Where are properties selling above CVs?
08 Sep 2020 Asteron Life expands Best Doctors offer
08 Sep 2020 Should you stay, or should you go?
08 Sep 2020 Firms will need to 'consolidate and grow'
07 Sep 2020 Shares rise in quiet trading
07 Sep 2020 Economy performing better-than-expected: ASB
07 Sep 2020 Westpac not budging on investor LVR
07 Sep 2020 Westpac not budging on investor LVR
07 Sep 2020 FMA offers investors insight into bonds
04 Sep 2020 Sharpest drop on NZX in months
04 Sep 2020 Where are properties selling most above CVs?
04 Sep 2020 Non-bank criteria changing during pandemic; Tip for landlords
04 Sep 2020 Generating income in a negative rates world
04 Sep 2020 Responsible investment's gender gap
03 Sep 2020 Entertainment stocks lead market rally
03 Sep 2020 Non-bank criteria changing through Covid
03 Sep 2020 Households spend nearly a third of their income on mortgage
03 Sep 2020 COMMENT: Don’t miss your $5,000 deductions!
03 Sep 2020 Deloitte: Tricky to compare NZ insurance to other markets
03 Sep 2020 AMP reports 'increase in interest' in its businesses
02 Sep 2020 Shares rise, dollar hits 14-month high
02 Sep 2020 Households spending 32% of income on mortgage
02 Sep 2020 FSC offers info hub for advisers
02 Sep 2020 Super City powers through lockdown 2.0
02 Sep 2020 Moving rent tech out of the past
02 Sep 2020 Kiwibank profits fall; Market holds firm against Covid
02 Sep 2020 Level five isn't the big issue for advisers; It's something else
02 Sep 2020 Financial Advice NZ conference gets funding
02 Sep 2020 Financial advisers get cyber warning
01 Sep 2020 High consent issuance not expected to continue
01 Sep 2020 Strong currency weighs down exporters
01 Sep 2020 Kiwibank profits drop by 47%
01 Sep 2020 ANZ completes UDC sale
01 Sep 2020 Market holds firm in Covid-19 storm
01 Sep 2020 Advisers sail through second lockdown; Westpac rate cuts
01 Sep 2020 How did the second lockdown compare?
01 Sep 2020 Record housing stock lows round NZ
01 Sep 2020 Australian banks' offloading of wealth businesses continues
August 2020
31 Aug 2020 Heavyweight exporters fall as dollar rises
31 Aug 2020 Consents no longer needed for low-risk work
31 Aug 2020 Sub-2% mortgages for several years?
31 Aug 2020 Sub-2% rates for two to three years: economists
31 Aug 2020 Mint moves to new digital onboarding platform
31 Aug 2020 Online rent talk attracts ComCom attention
31 Aug 2020 Will hackers interfere with NZX for second week?
31 Aug 2020 Pathfinder gets B Corp status
31 Aug 2020 Steady Southern star
28 Aug 2020 [OPINION] The industry needs to shift focus from ‘what you need to do’ to ‘how will you do it?’
28 Aug 2020 Reeling from cyber attacks, NZX 50 shuffles to record
28 Aug 2020 Buyer sentiment at eight year high
28 Aug 2020 Resimac slashes prime servicing rate; Clouds loom over housing market
28 Aug 2020 Financial services sector questioned regulation draft
28 Aug 2020 How to write about money
27 Aug 2020 Third cyber attack halts NZX trading
27 Aug 2020 Resimac slashes servicing rate
27 Aug 2020 Clouds remain over housing market
27 Aug 2020 Sub 2% rates to boost housing market; Borrowing boom in July
27 Aug 2020 FMA appoints director of investment management
27 Aug 2020 Licences near 1,000 milestone
26 Aug 2020 Borrowing boom in July – before second lockdown
26 Aug 2020 Shares rise, cyber attack interrupts trading
26 Aug 2020 Borrowing boom in July – before second lockdown
26 Aug 2020 Sub-2% mortgages to boost house prices: ASB
26 Aug 2020 Rental growth slows; CFML floating rate cut
26 Aug 2020 Stubbs: Take KiwiSaver fees issue to court
25 Aug 2020 Network issue cuts bullish day short
25 Aug 2020 No rent growth for first time in three years
25 Aug 2020 Negative OCR would be a mistake: Kiwibank
25 Aug 2020 Negative OCR would be a mistake: Kiwibank
25 Aug 2020 FMA not backing an investment style despite report
25 Aug 2020 Election watch: What the US race means for investors
24 Aug 2020 Wall Street leads property stocks higher
24 Aug 2020 Buying insurance can be a reassuringly normal thing to achieve
24 Aug 2020 Routine inspection pays off
24 Aug 2020 Mixed response to government business loan scheme
24 Aug 2020 AMP makes top-level changes amid allegations
24 Aug 2020 Nib braces for rush of treatments next year
24 Aug 2020 Mixed response to Business Finance Guarantee Scheme
24 Aug 2020 FMA releases active versus passive report
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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