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.

Wellington

Auckland

Fyfe signals departure from ING, Fidelity profits, Elders goes for short term deposits, ASB has a new look and news on Kiwi Income's management fees and Salvus Investments.

The taskforce looking at adviser regulation has released a summary of the 75 responses it received to its issues paper.

American International Assurance has lost its prized Standard & Poor's AAA rating and is now rated AA+.

There is an emerging view from people in the investment industry that the idea of using benchmarks to monitor performance are getting past their use-by date and a new approach is needed.