Regulators want to see more registered financial advisers becoming authorised financial advisers to plug the advice gap on KiwiSaver.

Standard and Poors has revised its credit rating outlook to “negative” for NZ Post and its subsidiary, Kiwibank.

Property investors are in the Inland Revenue Department’s sights – it has been given an extra $6.65 million to make sure they are paying their bills.

The Reserve Bank says it agrees with those who say loan-to-value ratio “speed limits” are a better way of implementing restrictions than blanket rules.

Partners Life was named insurer of the year by members of the Professional Advisers Association at its conference in Auckland on Friday night.

Trilogy’s day in court, trying to take control of LM Investment Management’s First Mortgage Investment Fund, has been pushed back several months.

Good Returns has been at the Professional Advisers Association (PAA) conference at Sky City, in Auckland this week.

Advisers must dob in any of their peers who aren’t meeting industry standards, Financial Markets Authority chief executive Sean Hughes says.

The final step in the sale of Mike Pero Mortgages has started, accompanied by a war of words between joint venture partners NZF and Liberty Financial and revelations of a disputed shareholder loan.

A financial dispute resolution service says complainants should not be alarmed about the safety of their information after its parent company was implicated in an ACC privacy breach.

More than 40% of people who want to have retirement income on top of NZ Super want at least $500 extra a week, ANZ’s latest Retirement Savings Confidence Barometer shows.

Financial Markets Authority chief executive Sean Hughes says investors need to take some responsibility for their own decisions.

TOWER will be looking for new roles for just over a third of its life insurance staff once the business is in the hands of Fidelity Life.

The Financial Markets Authority wants the entrance criteria for would-be financial advisers to become a lot stricter.

NZX wants to launch a “growth market” to get smaller companies to list without the rigours of a listing on the main board.

TOWER and Fidelity Life this week confirmed one of the industry’s best-kept secrets: Fidelity is buying TOWER’s Life business.