Financial advisers may need a large-scale consumer education campaign to help the general public understand what they offer.

A British move to scrap its “advice safeguard” for people thinking about transferring their pensions overseas would save migrants money.

Almost half the Financial Markets Authority’s executive management team and board of directors have held roles with banks or other financial institutions such as fund managers, sparking concerns about the potential for conflicts of interest.

First NZ Capital is rebranding as it launches a new digital interface for its investment clients.

Banks have had to cancel some preapprovals for investors, which were issued before the recent change to loan-to-value restrictions.

Private companies are being suggested as a good place for KiwiSaver providers and other fund managers to find growth opportunities.

Research house Morningstar has given faint praise to the KiwiSaver schemes operated by Grosvenor, now rebranded as Booster.

Just eight of the Insurance and Financial Services Ombudsman’s complaints over the past year related to financial advisers – and none were upheld.

Work is under way to require superannuation savings scheme providers to report on their annual fees in dollar terms – but some providers say that might be harder than some expect.

Investors and advisers are still being kept in the dark about significant components of fund managers’ fees, it has been claimed.

Westpac is removing sales incentives for its frontline staff in Australia as part of its work to rebuild trust with customers – but says the situation is different in New Zealand.

New Zealand advisers are backing a prediction that there will be a global ban on commission within five years – but one fund manager has described it as "nonsense”.

A lack of information may have caused some customers to take out expensive, non-underwritten insurance policies, when they would easily have qualified for normal cover, it has been claimed.

New Zealand’s economy could be set for another surge as it benefits from the very things worrying the rest of the world, an investment conference has been told.

There are calls for insurers to do more to help clients with “dormant” products that are becoming increasingly uncompetitive as the insurance market evolves.

Only the biggest non-KiwiSaver workplace superannuation savings schemes are likely to survive the knock-out punch of December 1’s impost of new regulations, financial law experts claim.