[UPDATED, ADDS FMA] Advisers are confused by a Financial Markets Authority directive that a financial advice provider under the new Financial Services Legislation Amendment Bill can be an individual or a business.

[GRTV SPECIAL] Good Returns TV has been on location at the National Advisers Conference in Rotorua. In this first item Finance Minister Grant Robertson talks about the Tax Working Group and savings issues.

Al Gore's Generation Investment Management and a Canadian pension fund have acquired control of FNZ in a deal that values the firm at NZ$3.25 billion.

Non-bank lender Basecorp Finance has launched a new prime offering for mortgage borrowers, as alternative lenders continue to take market share from the big banks

If the financial services sector wants financial advisers to deal in KiwiSaver, it will have to make it pay, one fund manager says.

Minister of finance Grant Robertson and MP Michael Wood chat on location at this year's National Advisers Conference in Rotorua

Financial Markets Authority's latest report highlights importance of engagement with members - and their $450m fees bill.

Tales about nightmare tenants have been rife in the media of late but such stories are not new – so does the sudden deluge indicate that landlords have reached breaking point, Miriam Bell asks.

Adviser group NZFSG has taken its vehicle and asset financing processing in-house as it aims to ramp up car loan volumes.

Fund managers can best serve investors by supporting and encouraging the use of third-party advice channels, David Boyle, head of sales and marketing at Mint Asset Management, says.

The NZX says it has rejected six "unreasonable" demands from fund manager Elevation Capital.

Tenancy laws are in line for an overhaul as the Government set out to make life better for tenants – but what do the proposed reforms mean for landlords?