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February 2020
24 Feb 2020 Boielle takes on expanded role at Southern Cross
24 Feb 2020 Regions lead the price growth pack
24 Feb 2020 nib reports local profit lift as group fortunes fall
24 Feb 2020 Kiwibank to enter adviser market
24 Feb 2020 [GRTV] Sam Dickie's 2020 outlook
24 Feb 2020 Kiwibank set to enter adviser market
24 Feb 2020 Advisers should highlight KiwiSaver returns, ASB says
22 Feb 2020 CFFC: Role for us to support advice
22 Feb 2020 [GRTV] Time to change debate on replacement business
21 Feb 2020 [The Wrap] Regulators need to be wary of AMP Life deal
21 Feb 2020 Earnings season rewards investors
21 Feb 2020 Kiwibank lending rises, profit falls
21 Feb 2020 What will happen to insurance premiums under the new regime?
21 Feb 2020 What will happen to insurance premiums under the new regime?
21 Feb 2020 NZ Super Fund: Some coronavirus losses will be recovered, others gone for good
21 Feb 2020 Full steam ahead for tenancy reforms
20 Feb 2020 NZX50 cracks 12,000 first time ever; Ebos, Auckland Airport earnings lift market
20 Feb 2020 Charges laid against Kloogh
20 Feb 2020 The new face of the NZPIF
20 Feb 2020 Generate offers compensation
20 Feb 2020 Newpark partners with Real Estate Together
20 Feb 2020 Newpark partners with Real Estate Together
19 Feb 2020 Active comes out on top in FMA debate
19 Feb 2020 Fletcher and Spark earnings settle investors
19 Feb 2020 Providers disagree on active advantage for responsible investment
19 Feb 2020 When will mortgage wars end?
19 Feb 2020 FMA debate: Passive v Active
19 Feb 2020 Heartland launches reverse mortgages for investors
19 Feb 2020 Heartland offers reverse mortgages to investors; new ANZ retail boss
19 Feb 2020 New, higher rate on interest and dividend tax
19 Feb 2020 ANZ appoints new retail boss
18 Feb 2020 The cost of running a one-person FAP revealed
18 Feb 2020 Insurers tweak discount offers
18 Feb 2020 Fisher Funds adds experienced faces
18 Feb 2020 Heartland highlight in NZ shares reporting season
18 Feb 2020 Heartland launches reverse mortgages for investors
18 Feb 2020 [GRTV] Benefits of Asia ETFs
18 Feb 2020 [GRTV] Fisher Funds' Sam Dickie's 2020 outlook
18 Feb 2020 [GRTV] Emerging markets key to long-term investment success
18 Feb 2020 Strong start for market in 2020
18 Feb 2020 What the ratings agency said about Fidelity Life
18 Feb 2020 Good customer outcomes, where did this term come from?
18 Feb 2020 When will interest rates rise?
18 Feb 2020 Generate: Advisers dealing with questions
17 Feb 2020 Tenancy reform bill hits Parliament
17 Feb 2020 NZ Funds appoints adviser-focused principal
17 Feb 2020 Weaker Kiwi buoys A2, F&P Healthcare
17 Feb 2020 Property investors positive for 2020
17 Feb 2020 Non-bank Metrics hires team for NZ launch
17 Feb 2020 Lapse rates up; profit down at AMP Life
17 Feb 2020 Low rates until 2022
17 Feb 2020 Challenge to landlord reforms
17 Feb 2020 AIA launches new adviser support programme
17 Feb 2020 Regulation pushes firms to vertical integration
16 Feb 2020 REINZ & NZPIF join up to battle RTA changes
15 Feb 2020 [The Wrap] Conduct wheels spinning
14 Feb 2020 NZ shares fall as Synlait declines another day
14 Feb 2020 Government brokers to match landlords with tenants
14 Feb 2020 A chance to invest in home loans; HSBC special rate drops to 3.2%
14 Feb 2020 National questions limits on adviser incentives
13 Feb 2020 Investing in EM
13 Feb 2020 Synlait Milk slumps to 2-year low; NZ shares fall
13 Feb 2020 Investors get chance to fund home loans through Squirrel; Harmoney exits
13 Feb 2020 A number of buyers interested in AMP
13 Feb 2020 Rising house prices glossed over in MPS
13 Feb 2020 AMP
13 Feb 2020 Prospa's first year in NZ; Faafoi reassures advisers
13 Feb 2020 Prospa's first year in New Zealand
12 Feb 2020 Morningstar: Don't expect another 2019
12 Feb 2020 Generate members' data accessed illegitimately
12 Feb 2020 NZ shares buoyed by RBNZ optimism of brief coronavirus hit
12 Feb 2020 OCR reaction: RBNZ upbeat on outlook
12 Feb 2020 Coronavirus contagion uncertainty
12 Feb 2020 OCR decision revealed
12 Feb 2020 ASB books a loss on sale of Aegis
12 Feb 2020 OCR decision later; NZFSG hires customer experience specialist
12 Feb 2020 Health system not helping income protection claims
12 Feb 2020 InvestNow acquires AMP Capital's retail business
11 Feb 2020 Coronavirus fears boost demand for yield plays
11 Feb 2020 FNZ gets new shareholder
11 Feb 2020 Rental contaminated, not damaged by meth
11 Feb 2020 Prospa in new SME deal
11 Feb 2020 Preparing for the next downturn
11 Feb 2020 Faafoi reassures advisers about the future
11 Feb 2020 Prospa offers advisers SME deal
11 Feb 2020 Climate change and investment
10 Feb 2020 New Zealand shares fall as investors go on “buyers strike”
10 Feb 2020 Headwinds for the commercial market
10 Feb 2020 NZFSG/Loan Market hires customer experience head
10 Feb 2020 ASB reveals its position on FAPs
10 Feb 2020 ASB reveals its position on FAPs
10 Feb 2020 The struggle to be better at telling the story of insurance
08 Feb 2020 New landscape for trusts
07 Feb 2020 NZ shares rise as investors catch up with Australian gains
07 Feb 2020 COMMENT: Checking in on insulation
07 Feb 2020 Second fund rolled out by value manager
07 Feb 2020 OCR preview survey: what do economists think?
07 Feb 2020 OCR Preview Survey: economists say OCR will stay on hold
07 Feb 2020 AML to get reviewed this year
07 Feb 2020 FMA to weed out green washing
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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