Share has appointed Michelle O’Connell as its new business growth manager.

A former registered financial adviser has signed an enforceable undertaking with the Financial Markets Authority, promising not to offer any financial advice for the next five years.

The Reserve Bank has confirmed that a journalist leaked information on the March OCR decision ahead of the official release.

An independent investigation has confirmed that highly sensitive and valuable market information on the March Official Cash Rate (OCR) cut decision was leaked by a journalist ahead of the official release, the Reserve Bank said today.

Auckland-based Morningstar research analyst Elliot Smith has left.

Property sellers’ confidence returned in March and the average asking price for a property in New Zealand increased to a new record of $573,000, according to the latest Trade Me Property Price Index.

Compliance firm IDS is to tap the skills of its newly-appointed general manager to offer a new service to help advisers manage complaints.

Aaron Bowkett is taking a sabbatical from his role at Synergy, the new class DIMS offer from FANZ and Consilium, to study other businesses around the world.

John Bolton's mortgage broking and peer-to-peer lending business, Squirrel, has raised $3.5 million through a crowdfunding offer to help the business expand.

Adviser group Planet spent time at its recent annual conference discussing whether it is inevitable that industry bodies will merge.

Chorus has announced an offer of five-year unsecured, unsubordinated fixed-rate bonds.