North Shore mortgage adviser Kris Pedersen of Kris Pedersen Mortgages believes the Reserve Bank could tighten debt-to-income levels, which go live July 1, over time.

The Financial Markets Authority has released a report on what it's found from its FAP monitoring visits - and there are some surprises in the results.

LoanOptions expands its New Zealand team.

The Co-operative Bank is growing its home loan book at twice the market rate for two consecutive years.

Debt-to-income (DTI) restrictions and loosening of loan-to-value ratios (LVR) will be introduced by the Reserve Bank on July 1.

Just over five years ago Barry Coates was trying to find products for an ethical investment portfolio and gave up after a week. He says with a master’s degree in finance from Yale University, it should’ve been easy but the data wasn’t comparable and there were no objective measures.

BNZ economists have revised their timing for OCR cuts and house price forecasts are down.

Kiwi Adviser Network (KAN), has entered into a strategic collaboration with Aon to give members a customised professional indemnity insurance solution.

Former FMA board member joins Generate board.

The government’s scrapping first-home grants and putting of the money toward social housing is going to have a big impact, a regional mortgage adviser says.

Asteron Life has appointed Kathie Tutty as chief underwriter effective from May 31.