Fisher Funds chief executive Bruce McLachlan says new regulation is creating an environment in which it is easier for product providers, such as fund managers, to have their advisers in-house.

National MPs have questioned the need for a bill that brings in new conduct requirements for insurers, banks and non-bank deposit takers.

Squirrel has opened up its mortgage lending book to peer-to-peer funders, providing access to retail investors as Harmoney pulls out of the P2P market.

AMP says plans to sell its New Zealand wealth management business are well under way and that it is in discussions with an unspecified "number" of parties.

Beau Bertoli, joint CEO of non-bank business lender Prospa, sat down with TMM Online to discuss SME business opportunities for advisers, and lessons from the firm's first year in New Zealand. 

Investors are still being rewarded for taking risk – but there may not be another year like 2019 for some time, Morningstar’s director of manager research for Asia-Pacific Tim Murphy says.

KiwiSaver provider Generate says its members' personal data has been accessed by unauthorised third-parties.

Economists say the Reserve Bank struck a positive tone on growth as it kept the OCR on hold, but fear it may have underestimated the impact of the coronavirus.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has kept the official cash rate on hold. Here's what the central bank said: 

AMP Capital, which has predominantly been a wholesale fund manager, has moved its small retail channel to InvestNow.