Weekly mortgage rate report: Although two year rates are considered the best option for home loans at the moment rates have started rising.

Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard may be heartened by ASB Bank’s latest survey findings that expectations of house price increases are rapidly diminishing.

The markets are at a fascinating juncture, uncertain in which direction to move given the opposing forces currently influencing investors. Tyndall Investment Management New Zealand Ltd managing director Anthony Quirk comments on the state of the markets.

Property investors are rallying against the proposed depreciation changes suggested in a recently-released discussion paper.

Asteron becomes Morningstar's only five star manager.

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Short-term mortgage rates are starting to increase following the Reserve Bank's decision to lift the Official Cash Rate 25 basis points to 6% last week.

Auckland

Invercargill

Auckland

BT Funds Management has sent cheques to more than a 1000 investors in some of its New Zealand funds to make up for valuation errors.

The latest ASB Investor Confidence survey says people have greater confidence in managed funds than before.