New Zealand’s benchmark index started strong on the first day of February, continuing the positive gains that the market made last month.

One of the FMA faces familiar to financial advisers is leaving the regulator. Plus IRD deputy commission joins FMA in newly created role.

Finance industry leaders say they want to meet the new Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs as soon as possible to bring improvements to Government policy.

Here is your tip sheet for how to manage your rentals if they have been damaged by flooding.

As many predicted portfolio managers at Quay Street Asset Management are leaving after the business was acquired by NZX-owned Smartshares.

Squirrel has launched an on-call account which it says is better than the rest.

Outcomes. That is what it is all about for financial services, says the Financial Markets Authority.

Advisers have been given some words of comfort that the coming recession might not be too deep.

NZX looking for a new chief executive for Smartshares.

Economists are worried about inflation that has remained stubbornly high at 7.2% in the year to December.

Inflation has remained at 7.2 % for the 12 months to December.    That is the same level as in the annual rate for the September quarter.