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Independent financial services specialist, Consilium has a new Auckland-based BDM, replacing Helen Robertson.

It should be seen as a positive thing that advisers are reluctant to recommend equities without third-party support, a former investment researcher in New Zealand says.

Nikko Asset Management has appointed a new Auckland business development manager.

The regulator responsible for financial advisers under the AML regime says it has given formal warnings to 10 reporting entities - and most of them were small businesses or individuals.

NZFSG and Loan Market have entered into a five-year deal to offer its own branded home loan product using one of the Australian non-bank lenders.

The new rules around the ring-fencing of rental losses are unlikely to cause a sea-change in investor behaviour, according to CoreLogic senior property economist Kelvin Davidson.

Partners Life managing director Naomi Ballantyne has fired back in the debate about commission, highlighting the amount of work that advisers do for nothing.

New data from the Financial Services Council shows New Zealanders now have nearly $60 million in their KiwiSaver accounts.

In this interesting interview Russell Investments managing director Tim Noonan says there needs to be a total rethink around retirement savings and how advisers talk to clients about their futures.

Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr joins Philip Macalister in the studio to talk about why the central bank cut the OCR this week.

Westpac economists believe this month's Official Cash Rate cut could boost house prices by 7%, but they do not expect further cuts to follow. 

Too many life insurers in New Zealand have written off the Australian Royal Commission as just being about banking and nothing to do with them, Financial Markets Authority head of regulation Liam Mason says.

BNZ has followed its major rivals by slashing fixed and floating mortgage rates, as price continue to plummet for borrowers.