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April 2020
16 Apr 2020 Don't expect a buyers' market immediately
16 Apr 2020 Cuts to cash-back offers
16 Apr 2020 Markets this month and beyond
15 Apr 2020 [VIDEO] Don’t expect a buyers’ market immediately
15 Apr 2020 [VIDEO] Don’t expect a buyers’ market immediately
15 Apr 2020 Confidence returns to stocks: Vista bounces back, Refining NZ jumps on review
15 Apr 2020 What life insurers are offering your customers under Covid 19
15 Apr 2020 The Matrix Partners style; What advisers say
15 Apr 2020 Partners' customer outcomes matrix revealed
15 Apr 2020 Cigna offers new commission options
15 Apr 2020 Market strong before turbulence to come
15 Apr 2020 Trustees Executors appoints new chairman
15 Apr 2020 [Opinion] Two and two are still four
15 Apr 2020 Fears over tougher servicing tests
15 Apr 2020 Fears over tougher servicing tests
15 Apr 2020 Prospa calls for extension of business loan scheme
14 Apr 2020 Former Newpark boss 'working to support advisers'
14 Apr 2020 NZ shares close at month-high on optimism over covid-19 response
14 Apr 2020 One in five tenancies could fall into arrears
14 Apr 2020 Southern Cross members get credits
14 Apr 2020 ANZ doesn’t expect low equity problems
14 Apr 2020 ANZ doesn’t expect low equity problems
13 Apr 2020 Your guide to medical insurers' Covid 19 customer support options
12 Apr 2020 Newpark gets FAP licence
12 Apr 2020 Open Polytechnic reports surge of level five enrolments
12 Apr 2020 [Obituary] Ron Flood
11 Apr 2020 [The Wrap] The state of financial services two weeks into lockdown
11 Apr 2020 Fund update and future outlook
09 Apr 2020 Investors cash in gains to chase value elsewhere
09 Apr 2020 Penrich Capital liquidators appointed
09 Apr 2020 TMM Available now
09 Apr 2020 Fisher Funds donates meals
09 Apr 2020 Reserve Bank to monitor LVR breaches caused by Covid-19
09 Apr 2020 KiwiSaver withdrawal process 'should be easier'
08 Apr 2020 Out now: Latest issue of TMM
08 Apr 2020 Sharemarket cracks 10,000 mark
08 Apr 2020 “No access in emergency” lease clause: putting it in context
08 Apr 2020 Cigna confirms hardship policy
08 Apr 2020 Regulators have eyes on Partners Life commission
08 Apr 2020 Non-banks offer payment holidays and rate cuts
07 Apr 2020 FMA keeps close watch on Covid-19 misbehaviour
07 Apr 2020 Auckland Airport rallies after $1b placement; NZ market disconnects from offshore events
07 Apr 2020 Tenancy reform Select Committee hearings to go ahead
07 Apr 2020 Non-banks offer payment holidays
07 Apr 2020 Life remains in real estate industry
07 Apr 2020 Adviser warned over misleading Covid-19 ads
07 Apr 2020 ASB reviews Covid-19 process; Housing Corporation New Zealand/Kainga Ora rate drop
07 Apr 2020 Our $100 billion debt of gratitude
07 Apr 2020 ASB reviews Covid-19 process
07 Apr 2020 CareSaver: Active management doing what it should
06 Apr 2020 NZ shares fall as investors make way for $1b Auckland Airport placement
06 Apr 2020 Understanding rebalancing: A portfolio well invested doesn’t do things in excess
06 Apr 2020 Former AIA head of sales and distribution joins Instant Finance
06 Apr 2020 Lockdown market sentiment
06 Apr 2020 AML warnings issued
06 Apr 2020 Life and health insurance through the eyes of a pandemic
06 Apr 2020 ASB criticised over Covid-19 processing
06 Apr 2020 ASB criticised over Covid-19 processing
05 Apr 2020 Managers ramp up communication
03 Apr 2020 NZ shares rise; Tourism Holdings rallies on joint venture exit
03 Apr 2020 [WATCH] Newpark update
03 Apr 2020 How the lockdown is affecting landlords
03 Apr 2020 Payment holidays won't affect credit scores; Licensing delay could hurt overachievers
03 Apr 2020 Payment holidays won't affect credit scores
02 Apr 2020 FSLAA overachievers 'could be collateral damage'
02 Apr 2020 Southern Cross offers financial support
02 Apr 2020 After the ups; the downs
02 Apr 2020 FE Investments in receivership
02 Apr 2020 Supreme Court dismisses price-fixing appeal
02 Apr 2020 COMMENT: Making sense of it all: COVID-19, the economy & property
02 Apr 2020 Auckland market booming before lockdown
02 Apr 2020 Bank margins under pressure; Will advisers leave the industry?
02 Apr 2020 Advisers 'will drop out'
01 Apr 2020 Investors eye eventual recovery
01 Apr 2020 Bank margins under pressure: KPMG
01 Apr 2020 nib offers support package
01 Apr 2020 Mentoring role for NZFSG's Patten; Reasons to be positive
01 Apr 2020 Mentoring role for NZFSG's Patten
01 Apr 2020 Banks launch SME support loans
01 Apr 2020 Housing market: the positives
01 Apr 2020 Covid withdrawals possible 'but not always desirable'
01 Apr 2020 Uncertainty set to plague 2020’s market
March 2020
31 Mar 2020 Investors rejig portfolios; Gentrack soars
31 Mar 2020 Covid-19 will impact on building activity
31 Mar 2020 What lies ahead for the housing market
31 Mar 2020 Housing market negatives; Nelson Building Society rate drop
31 Mar 2020 Housing market: the negatives
31 Mar 2020 New Dunedin Hire for Mike Pero Mortgages
31 Mar 2020 South Auckland skyrockets - pre-lockdown
30 Mar 2020 Increased risk to the adviser, insurers warn
30 Mar 2020 Fixed income 'not providing buffer expected'
30 Mar 2020 Exporters F&P Healthcare, A2 enjoy weak kiwi; NZX rises
30 Mar 2020 Moving properties during COVID-19 lockdown
30 Mar 2020 MDRT plans virtual annual meeting
30 Mar 2020 Two big questions in conduct law causing advisers concern, and its unintended consequences
30 Mar 2020 Banks roll out mortgage holiday
30 Mar 2020 NZ Funds adds to its Private Wealth team
30 Mar 2020 NZFSG cans awards; Banks roll out mortgage holidays
30 Mar 2020 [The Wrap] Coping with Covid-19; thinking ahead; update your info
30 Mar 2020 Banks roll out mortgage holidays
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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