The Mortgage Supply Co is opening another branded office in West Auckland

Queen's Birthday Honours Awards have, today, been handed out to three people from the financial services industry. Plus we acknowledge someone many old hands in the advisory world will remember.

Mortgage advisers have played a big part in helping The Co-operative Bank achieve a 16% increase its net profit to the year ending March 31.

Research by Good Returns and ASSET Magazine shows the biggest proportion of new AFAs in the past couple of years have ended up in banks.

One financial adviser is doing his bit to help boost the number of AFAs in New Zealand.

An international ratings agency has given Credit Union Baywide a tick and said its move to residential mortgages has been good.

The Professional Advisers Association is looking to realise $2.9 million from the sale of its holiday homes, and expects to use the bulk of this money for its proposed Legacy Trust.

Partners Life has nailed a $200 million capital injection from a US private equity firm which enables it to continue on its growth path.