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.

Loan Market makes fifth new appointment in six months.

Strung out bank mortgage application processing times are frustrating advisers.

The increased availability of index fund options and the strength of returns for investors continues to lay down a challenge for active managers, according to Kernel Wealth chief executive Dean Anderson.