Christchurch

Success Forum 2005 is attracting strong interest, with over 350 registrations for the June conference so far.

Avon lists, Bridgecorp not welcome at Dorchester board table, St Laurence bond offer opens, NZ debt market stronger, Smartshares savings plan starts, QV says property market slowing, and why you should attend the FPIA Success Forum.

QV’s monthly property statistics continue to reinforce a gradual slowdown in the residential property market.

Auckland

ISI support the bold initiatives of the NZ Institute to encourage a personal savings ethic in this country

ING has launched a new adviser network, called ACCRUE, targeted at independent risk and investment advisers.

The Salvation Army see the NZ Institute's proposals as a means of reducing poverty in New Zealand

Auckland

Wellington

United Future leader Peter Dunne is throwing his support behind the latest recommendation from the New Zealand Institute

Finance Minister Michael Cullen said that the government concurred with the broad analysis contained in the report released by the NZ Institute today.

Christchurch

The past week has been a relatively quiet one in terms of the quantum of changes to home loan rates, but there has still been plenty of heat amongst those battling it out a the bottom of the two-year rate table.