Financial Advice NZ is launching a marketing fund to promote the CFP mark in New Zealand.

Southern Cross Health Society has created a new role to help it meet the future needs of members.

It seems problems keep mounting up for ANZ with news today investors in New Zealand's biggest ponzi scheme, Ross Asset Management, has started legal action against ANZ.

Investors who lost money in Ross Asset Management are chasing ANZ for compensation.

Fund liquidity is one of the factors advisers should consider when placing their clients’ money, one researcher says.

Insurance companies have supplied regulators with their plans to ensure better industry conduct.

The new financial advice regime will involve many different pieces of regulation working together in a way the Financial Advisers Act environment did not, the chairman of the Code Working Group says.

New rules around the ring-fencing of rental property losses came into force late in June and Stop the War on Tenancies spokesman Mike Butler believes they’ll have a negative impact on the rental market...

Advisers should expect to see their agreements with most insurers rewritten over the near future, one insurance commentator has warned.

A broader income mix is helping to bolster the value of advice businesses.

Non-banks could one day be subject to loan to value ratio restrictions like the major banks, a consultation document from the Reserve Bank suggests.

New Zealand has the highest proportional uptake of responsible investment funds among the world's major markets, according to the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia's latest benchmark report.

The Financial Markets Authority will need to refine its guidance on complaints handling processes if its proposed transitional license standard is to be effective, one complaints expert says.

Open Polytech says its new financial services qualification and continuing professional development course will stand advisers in good stead in the new advice regime.