Upper Hutt has long been overlooked as an investment option but its affordable prices, strong yields and tight rental market mean it is now attracting attention, reports Miriam Bell.

New Zealand missed its chance to implement a decumulation solution - but it is one of a number of issues that are now 'past urgent' to address, one researcher says.

Significant change is coming for insurance advisers, but one says it’s unfair that the Government is meddling in what private businesspeople are paid, at all.

ANZ New Zealand's half-year net profit dropped 4% from last year's record high thanks to losses from hedging and insurance policy revaluations.

Hear about how Tim Ross became a self-employed mortgage adviser with Mike Pero

The Financial Services Council has acknowledged the progress on the Government’s financial sector culture and conduct reform work programme with the release of two options papers and said it welcomed the opportunity to respond to them.

The original budget to write a new Code of Conduct for financial advisers was $150,000, but the total cost so far is more than three times that amount; and the job is still not finished.

Big four lender ASB has teamed up with two artificial intelligence companies to speed up data processing, a move it hopes will help with key products such as home loans.

The Health Funds Association (HFANZ) says strike action by junior doctors is a reminder of the value of private health insurance. 

NZ Funds says its plan-writing technology is flourishing, but it has no plans to jump into roboadvice.

New Zealand's financial services sector needs more action and less talk to help Kiwis get the best outcomes from their investments, one financial adviser says.

The latest Reserve Bank lending data reveals investors borrowed more than $1 billion in March, the highest figure since November, but a 10% fall on the same period last year.

Mortgage advisers expect an additional regulatory burden from the government’s new financial safeguarding proposals, and have warned against the “unintended consequences” of changing remuneration structures.

QuayStreet Asset Management has appointed an independent chairman and head of distribution.