The Human Rights Commission says it is reviewing its guideline on how the insurance industry complies with the Human Rights Act.

Weekly Home Loan report: The past week has been a relatively quiet one for rate changes in the home loan market. Also the latest figures from the Reserve Bank, released yesterday, show that the volume of lending is declining.

Increasing risk in "safe" fixed-income securities may catch investors unaware, according to Standard & Poor's Investment Consulting.

Rising Star named, Westpac and Principal settle. Don't like the tax proposals? How to have your say. Bumper year for St Laurence. Comment: Michael Cullen is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Two new online call accounts, Compass sets direction with Bridgecorp, Allied secures Prime target, One car lender happy.

Tower shareholders will have to keep waiting to see a dividend.

Retirement Commissioner Diana Crossan who is urging all homeowners to look carefully at their home loan options and to work out the true cost of their mortgage.

Auckland

Tower is the first large savings organisation to publicly put its hand up for KiwiSaver default provider status.

Wellington

Former Professional Investment Services business development manager Dave Birch has established a new firm to help advisory firms to market themselves.

Troubled-finance company Provincial Finance may sell part of its loan book to South Canterbury Finance to raise cash needed to restructure trading.

Weekly Home Loan Report: Well Bank of New Zealand has finally done it and increased its fixed rates this morning.