Softer economic data does not mean the Reserve Bank is in any hurry to cut the OCR, Paul Conway RBNZ chief economist says.

Mortgage lending to property investors sank to its lowest since 2014 for a December month, RBNZ data shows.

Non-bank lenders are failing in not letting advisers know the range of help available for their clients, Sue Griffiths, Funding Partners’ sales and marketing consultant says.

While inflation has come down from 5.6% to 4.7% it is good news, the details are even less exciting, say Kiwibank’s economists.

Digitisation provides many benefits to both financial advisers and their clients. But, once you’ve decided to embrace going digital, how do you know where to start? Which areas of your KiwiSaver advice process should be the first to go digital, and which will bring the most benefits to your business?

The Reserve Bank has reveled its proposed debt-to-income (DTI) restrictions alongside plans to loosen loan to value ratios (LVR) for residential lending.

For Mat Page, one of his most memorable insurance claims relates to a person who wasn’t even his client.

Alvin Soh has joined nib New Zealand as its chief financial officer. Heh is a chartered accountant with more than 20 years of commercial experience in leadership roles.

The impact of the US authorities approving exchange-traded funds (ETFs) investing in bitcoin and the involvement of global investment heavyweights such as Blackrock and Fidelity should over time create “a whole new universe of buyers” and add more legitimacy to trading in crypto currencies, according to Koura Wealth managing director Rupert Carlyon.