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March 2020
30 Mar 2020 AML flexibility offered
30 Mar 2020 Recovery from coronavirus – a buying opportunity?
29 Mar 2020 Iress: Covid-19 pushing advisers into digital working
27 Mar 2020 Volatile day on the market; Shares started up but ended down
27 Mar 2020 NZFSG cans awards
27 Mar 2020 Commercial sector facing hundreds of millions in lost revenue
27 Mar 2020 Landlords’ plea: don’t unfairly target us
27 Mar 2020 Best practice, real services, low cost
27 Mar 2020 Weathering the coronavirus
26 Mar 2020 Warning for insurers
26 Mar 2020 Licensing won't start until next year
26 Mar 2020 NZ shares rally on US stimulus; beat-up stocks recover
26 Mar 2020 TSB one-year falls to 3.09%
26 Mar 2020 ANZIIF cancels insurance awards
26 Mar 2020 HSBC's sub 3% rate; Advisers deal with client turmoil
26 Mar 2020 Advisers deal with client turmoil
26 Mar 2020 HSBC launches sub 3% bank rate
26 Mar 2020 KiwiSaver switching soars
25 Mar 2020 New Pacific leader for Mercer
25 Mar 2020 Emergency rules boost tenant protections
25 Mar 2020 NZ shares gain; Wall Street rally brings out bargain hunters
25 Mar 2020 Covid-19 crisis: what landlords need to know
25 Mar 2020 NZFSG outlines FAP plan; ASB rate cut; Six-month mortgage holidays
25 Mar 2020 ASB matches 3.05% rate
25 Mar 2020 Advice businesses under pressure 'on two fronts'
25 Mar 2020 NZFSG rolls out its FAP
24 Mar 2020 Partners Life responds to 'unprecedented environment'
24 Mar 2020 Government support package helps NZ shares rally
24 Mar 2020 Six-month mortgage holiday for borrowers
24 Mar 2020 CoFI delay welcomed
24 Mar 2020 Transitional licensing start date pushed back
24 Mar 2020 COMMENT: Property from the trenches
24 Mar 2020 Cigna joins redundancy cover freeze
24 Mar 2020 Westpac slashes fixed rates; Uncharted territory for advisers
24 Mar 2020 Advisers head into uncharted territory
23 Mar 2020 Financial services 'essential'
23 Mar 2020 Newpark makes U-turn on FAP status
23 Mar 2020 NZ shares plunge as country prepares for shutdown
23 Mar 2020 Freeze on rent rises introduced - temporarily
23 Mar 2020 Westpac latest to cut fixed rates
23 Mar 2020 nib: Significant impact coming from Covid-19
23 Mar 2020 Put RTA reform proposals on ice
23 Mar 2020 BNZ slashes 18 month rate to 3.05%
23 Mar 2020 Partners Life supports rainbow community
22 Mar 2020 Regulation slowing: Is FSLAA next?
22 Mar 2020 [GRTV] Investment themes for this decade
21 Mar 2020 Harbour's regional roadshow cancelled
20 Mar 2020 Prominent insurance lawyer dies
20 Mar 2020 [The Wrap] The end of dealer groups as we know it
20 Mar 2020 New Zealand shares joins Asia rally; Air NZ plummets
20 Mar 2020 BNZ enters price war with 3.05% fixed mortgage
20 Mar 2020 SBS and HSBC latest to cut floating rates
20 Mar 2020 How to address tenant job loss in the age of coronavirus
20 Mar 2020 Kiwibank one year cut; key factors to consider
20 Mar 2020 Housing market: 6 factors to consider
20 Mar 2020 How this could be different to the GFC
20 Mar 2020 FMA: Tell us what you need
19 Mar 2020 Fidelity Life makes Covid-19 changes
19 Mar 2020 Stocks hit record lows as market suffers
19 Mar 2020 Partners Life to pay override commission to advisers
19 Mar 2020 Kiwibank cuts one year fixed rate
19 Mar 2020 Great Scott! Newpark has a new leader
19 Mar 2020 RBNZ can't say if or when it may approve AMP Life sale
19 Mar 2020 ANZ moves first with record-low fixed rate
19 Mar 2020 Contactless Advice service amid coronavirus outbreak
19 Mar 2020 Financial advice conference canned
19 Mar 2020 Adviser clients largely calm through Covid storm
18 Mar 2020 Reserve Bank holds back review of Insurance Act
18 Mar 2020 A much better day for NZ shares
18 Mar 2020 ANZ launches record-low major bank rate
18 Mar 2020 Battle against RTA reforms continues
18 Mar 2020 House prices to fall for six months; BNZ, Sovereign floating rate cuts
18 Mar 2020 House prices to fall for six months: ASB
18 Mar 2020 Negative news abounds; but things will get better
17 Mar 2020 New Zealand shares ease as govt unveils $12.1b crutch for business
17 Mar 2020 ASB slashes house price forecasts
17 Mar 2020 More floating rate cuts, but what about fixed rates?
17 Mar 2020 Banks weigh up fixed rate cuts
17 Mar 2020 Passive funds get time to shine: Kernel
16 Mar 2020 Tourism stocks plunge as border effectively closed
16 Mar 2020 What coronavirus means for property investors
16 Mar 2020 Partners puts hold on redundancy cover
16 Mar 2020 Rates fall after emergency OCR cut; reaction from advisers, economists
16 Mar 2020 Banks pass on floating rate cuts after OCR decision
16 Mar 2020 OCR cut: advisers predict slowdown
16 Mar 2020 RBNZ delays new capital rules
16 Mar 2020 Emergency OCR cut to 0.25%
16 Mar 2020 Emergency OCR cut: economists give their views
16 Mar 2020 Emergency OCR cut to 0.25%
13 Mar 2020 [The Wrap] Random thoughts on an indiscriminate virus
13 Mar 2020 Bernie jets into Newpark role
13 Mar 2020 NZX50 recovers from horror open in volatile trading
13 Mar 2020 New loan to boost energy-efficient housing
13 Mar 2020 Newpark loses second CEO
13 Mar 2020 Groups apply for Transitional Licensing; ASB and Heretaunga rate changes
13 Mar 2020 Syndicates take big share of commercial purchases
12 Mar 2020 Gunn shoots off to new role
12 Mar 2020 AIA receives Gender Tick accreditation
12 Mar 2020 [GRTV] Trustees face massive changes; but not a lot of time to prepare
12 Mar 2020 Trump travel-ban drives NZX50 to nine-month low
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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