Strategic Finance is talking down expectations that investors will receive their first repayment next month.

Developments on disclosure requirements for advisers; Relief for employers helping out with super savings; First disputes resolution scheme application received; AIA selects Hong Kong as listing venue

Equitable Mortgages has eye on extended deposit guarantee scheme; Guardian Trust hoses down criticism of indemnity clause in Hanover deal; Battle of the credit unions.

Peter Dine, Head of Business Development, Aegis, talks about a new way to invest in superannuation.

With the exception of Japan, most global sharemarkets had a good month in November.  The Land of The Rising Sun, though, started to suffer deflation and a large number of capital raisings did not help investors' attitudes.

Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard said: "The New Zealand economy continues to recover but there remains considerable uncertainty about the durability of the expansion.

Meridian Energy has suspended its offering of new Renewable Energy Notes following government's decision to shake up the electricity market.

Bernie Higgins has been elected as president of the New Zealand Society of Actuaries for 2010.

We know that the old ways of selling products and finding and solving problems aren't the way of the future. We would love to start a revolution, but we can't stop thinking of how to get paid.