Aside from the expected RBNZ 0.50% OCR drop on Wednesday, economists are expecting a thorough update of where it sees interest rates going over the next two years.

For the second consecutive year Asteron Life has been awarded Life Insurance Company of the Year at the ANZIF Insurance Industry Awards.

Both the regulator and government officials say the onus falls on advisers to work with disgruntled clients to try to resolve their complaint even if they have left the sector or joined a new provider.

Mortgage advisers are taking a stand against banks’ strung-out home loan processing times.

The Adviser Platform grows their compliance and governance team with new appointments.

Eighteen year PIC veteran lands chief executive role.

A looming problem for mortgage advisers over the next few years and coming decades is going to be property insurance, Mark Solomon, LifeDirect managing director says.

Former head of Vega mortgages moves to adviser group.

Former Chubb director and ACC chief executive to take up role of Fidelity Life chairman.

Westpac cited the facts that mortgage advisers now write about 65% of its new mortgages and that a quarter of new lending in October was customers switching banks as evidence that “we can see there's plenty of shopping around.”

Another small business lender adds line of credit product.

In just a week the RBNZ will make another decision on the OCR and the BNZ says 0.25%,0.50% and 0.75% cuts are all options.