New Zealand’s exchange rate is a concern for the Reserve Bank and could mean a change in the official cash rate is further away than had been predicted.

Regulation can be an opportunity for well-run financial advice businesses to succeed, says one UK financial adviser.

City apartments are finding favour with investors again, and Auckland looks to be on the cusp of another building boom.

Disclosure documents are unlikely to meet the new requirements under the Financial Markets Conduct Act unless changes are made, the FMA said yesterday.

Too many financial advisers think just being an AFA is enough, speakers told a conference in Auckland yesterday.

A “reasonableness” standard should be included in the conflict of interest standard in the new Code of Professional Conduct for Financial Advisers, a Chapman Tripp senior associate says.

KiwiSaver was again the hot topic this week as even Winston Peters took aim at the fees fund managers charge.

We won’t get an official cash rate increase this month, but it may not be far off, economists say.

Submissions closed yesterday on the revised draft of the Code of Professional Conduct for Authorised Financial Advisers but the committee chairman isn’t expecting big changes.

Landlords need to look after their customers and keep their rental properties warm and dry, says the president of the Independent Property Managers Association.

Changes being considered to the treatment of reinsurance arrangements in insurers’ financial statements have been further outlined by the Reserve Bank.

The value of assets invested in KiwiSaver has jumped 30% in the last year, but the Government is now chipping in a lot less.

Triplejump founder and executive director Cecilia Farrow says the risk advice firm and software provider is hoping to list on the sharemarket by the middle of next year.

New housing loan approvals data from the Reserve Bank shows that the number of people being issued mortgages is dropping substantially.

Banks will be hard-pressed to offer advice and education to their thousands of default KiwiSaver scheme members, commentators say.

Advisers say they are unsure how much of a business benefit it would be to be able to offer insurance online.