Ralph Stewart's Retirement Income Group is aiming to break into profit this year as well as rolling out a new product and establishing operations in another country.

With plenty of positives for the housing market outlook this year, advisers hope lenders will change their approach to servicing tests.

Fisher Funds’ head of distribution has resigned.

A year on from its launch, more than 150 individual advisers are now part of adviser group Newpark Home Loans.

The next couple of months may bring a rush of transitional licence applications, it has been predicted.

It's the start of a new year and a new decade. While it's 2020, Philip Macalister looks ahead and makes some predictions around what may happen in the financial advice sector this year.

TSB and The Co-operative are among the lenders yet to decide how they will work with financial advice provider licence holders under the new regulatory regime.

New KiwiSaver provider Kōura is providing more advice to KiwiSaver members than initially expected – but not converting as many as had been hoped to members.

Partners Life achieved its highest market share ever for new business in the six months to September 30 and now has the fourth biggest inforce life book in the industry.

Registered financial advisers providing KiwiSaver advice will need to complete an investment qualification to continue to do so under the new advice regime.

The Auckland residential housing market ended 2019 strongly with December sales numbers being their highest in four years and prices holding onto most of the gains made in November.

A client who claimed her life insurance adviser had misled her has had her complaint rejected by the Insurance and Financial Services Ombudsman.

Prospa New Zealand general manager Adrienne Church outlines some of the opportunities for mortgage advisers in 2020.