The impression banks are being tough on mortgage lending and have not loosened their criteria is a misconception, says mortgage adviser Kris Pedersen.

The Adviser Platform (TAP) has added two new team members following a period of growth.

Fidelity Life, has entered into a new collaboration with global InsureTech provider UnderwriteMe to leverage its technology, data, and analytics for their new and improved online application tool, E-App.

The New Zealand sharemarket – which has long struggled with a weakening economy and tight monetary policy – hit a 17-month high as some of the leading stocks came to the party late in the day.

ANZ Investments is replacing MFS Institutional Advisors (MFS) with BlackRock Investment Management (Australia).

All eyes this week will be on the Consumer Price Index data in the wake of the Reserve Bank’s slight change in mood on when interest rates will come down.

Auckland-based mortgage adviser Kris Pedersen can’t understand why Resimac left the market.

MDRT country chair Rick Willis led one of the biggest contingents of New Zealand advisers to the association's annual meeting in Vancouver last month. He talks to GRTV about the trip and how MDRT changed his life.

Nobody expected the Reserve Bank to do anything other than hold its official cash rate steady at 5.5%, and that's exactly what it has just done.