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.

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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.

The home loan price war became a battle between two of the banks last week – the protagonist Bank of New Zealand and the ASB Bank.

Weekly Home Loan report: The home loan price war became a battle between two of the banks last week – the protagonist Bank of New Zealand and the ASB Bank.