Global equities and fixed interest manager PM Capital has appointed a new Investment Analyst and Portfolio Manager.

Ask anyone who has ever made an insurance claim to cover an important medical procedure and you’ll hear a ringing endorsement of the value of private health insurance. Having private health insurance gives your clients power to make decisions that need to be made.

Fidelity Life has announced more than 40 product upgrades, which it says will deliver more clarity and consistency to customers and advisers. 

Trustees Executors chief executive Ryan Bessemer has announced two appointments to the executive team.

HSBC is offering a 3.85% Special rate for an 18-month fixed home loan for both owner occupiers and investors, its fifth sub-4%. home loan since February 2016 and the only sub-4% mortgage currently being offered in the New Zealand market.

From IDS to Strategi ... now to Evergreen Life.

Regulators have not yet found evidence of the sort of widespread, systemic issues that would warrant a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand's financial services sector - but they are warning that could change.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Financial Markets Authority have not seen “evidence of widespread, systemic issues” to warrant an inquiry into the country's financial services industry, the two regulators said in a statement today.

Some banks have not yet begun to fully embed conduct risk, governance or oversight into their operations, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) and the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) say.