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November 2025
18 Nov 2025 Complaints are on the rise - here’s how to handle them
18 Nov 2025 Growth in FAPs and FAs sustained over the last 18 months
18 Nov 2025 Shaping the Future of Financial Advice: An Interview on OMNIMax’s Investment Adviser Tool
18 Nov 2025 Southern Cross Health Trust appoints new chair
18 Nov 2025 Online refixing works for some, but not all borrowers
18 Nov 2025 Why refixing deserves more than five minutes
17 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket starts new week up 0.2%
17 Nov 2025 A chat with ANZ's CEO
17 Nov 2025 MDRT membership now open for 2026
17 Nov 2025 ANZ sees adviser business dropping but wants to turn things around
17 Nov 2025 Minister not rushing to respond to Retirement report
14 Nov 2025 NZ stocks take Wall Street lead to end down 1%
14 Nov 2025 FMT appoints national strategic partnerships manager
14 Nov 2025 How to fix the retirement system
13 Nov 2025 NZX edges lower as Infratil, profit-taking weigh
12 Nov 2025 Mainfreight result lifts sharemarket as investors eye Infratil update
12 Nov 2025 Baden Martin steps down as NZFSG CEO
12 Nov 2025 Advisers should be more involved in technology develoment: White paper
12 Nov 2025 White paper urges central technology role for mortgage advisers
12 Nov 2025 Investors eye local recovery
11 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket dips ahead of Mainfreight and Infratil results
11 Nov 2025 Booster adds senior portfolio manager
11 Nov 2025 Advisers write less business with ANZ in the past year
10 Nov 2025 NZX flat as Vital Healthcare announces $200m capital raise
10 Nov 2025 ANZ lessened reliance on advisers in year ended Sept
10 Nov 2025 Bank mortgage lending on target to be the biggest since the pandemic
08 Nov 2025 TMM Weekend Read: 10 things to know about the mortgage market
08 Nov 2025 10 things to know about mortgage lending right now
08 Nov 2025 The Great Yield Reset: Why Income Is Back in Focus on the NZX
07 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket shakes off Wall Street fall to end firm
07 Nov 2025 Mortgage holders still hedging their bets
07 Nov 2025 Paying advisers for KiwiSaver advice
06 Nov 2025 Ryman and Fletcher lift as NZ sharemarket ends nine-day winning streak
06 Nov 2025 Advisers fall out of love with BNZ
06 Nov 2025 BNZ again shuns advisers and the numbers show it
06 Nov 2025 Financial stress stabilises while household credit demand picks up
05 Nov 2025 Employment data dominates quiet day on NZ sharemarket
05 Nov 2025 Life and health: a tale of two sectors
05 Nov 2025 Fidelity adds cancer support, digital tools for advisers
04 Nov 2025 NZ sharemarket gains as Fletcher hands over NZICC
04 Nov 2025 Westpac CEO fronts on trail commission decision
04 Nov 2025 Westpac CEO explains commission cut decision
04 Nov 2025 Lifetime celebrates 10 years with a new scheme under its belt
03 Nov 2025 Embracing Change
03 Nov 2025 NZ stocks ride wave of 2026 optimism
03 Nov 2025 Westpac's mortgage book grows with the support of advisers
03 Nov 2025 Westpac profit up 13%; Advisers account for more loans
03 Nov 2025 Market recovery signals consistent with interest rate falls
October 2025
31 Oct 2025 NZ stocks end firm after Sky, Vulcan, annual meetings
31 Oct 2025 39-minute processing, 95% claims paid, 164 new advisers trained
31 Oct 2025 Time to fix for longer; Have your say
31 Oct 2025 Only months not quarters to consider fixing home loan terms
30 Oct 2025 Freightways outlook and Fonterra vote drive upbeat day
30 Oct 2025 Another swipe at property investors
30 Oct 2025 NZ a standout for ethical investment funds flow
29 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket edges higher as media company NZME lifts earnings guidance
29 Oct 2025 OCR cuts forecast; TSB's new rate
29 Oct 2025 Harbour chooses “not a Wall St firm” for global private equity fund External Inbox
28 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket gains in Labour day catch-up
28 Oct 2025 Bets are on for OCR to fall even further
28 Oct 2025 MDRT announces 2026 chair appointments
27 Oct 2025 Wholesale changes to Partners’s offering
25 Oct 2025 Have Your Say in TMM’s Annual Mortgage Adviser Survey
24 Oct 2025 Sharemarket edges higher as F&P Healthcare weighs on gains
24 Oct 2025 The future or mortgage advice
24 Oct 2025 Five awards and new scholarship from Fidelity Life
24 Oct 2025 Mortgage advisers identify issues shaping the industry’s future
24 Oct 2025 Super alone won’t cut it in retirement
23 Oct 2025 Trauma Cover; the good, the bad, and the ugly
23 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket lifts as Skellerup update builds confidence
23 Oct 2025 Fast turn around times and reliabily win over advisers
22 Oct 2025 Morningstar to look under the hood of KiwiSaver funds
22 Oct 2025 What lenders need to do to win over advisers
22 Oct 2025 OCR may not keep falling for long
22 Oct 2025 Interest rate rises may be needed by the end of next year
22 Oct 2025 ASB's quarter to shine
21 Oct 2025 Guardians get an investment banker
21 Oct 2025 A full Pie fund is closed
20 Oct 2025 Former finance minister says capital gains tax almost irrelevant
20 Oct 2025 Capital gains tax almost irrelevant – English
17 Oct 2025 NZ stocks end lower while Eroad tanks
17 Oct 2025 SOC gets global financial planning award
17 Oct 2025 Kiwi MDRT members outpace their global peers
17 Oct 2025 Long term rates need to come down; Take part in our adviser survey
17 Oct 2025 New Zealand’s retirement savings regime rated B
17 Oct 2025 Long term rates need to also come down
16 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket rises in late trading as Infratil rallies on datacentre deal
16 Oct 2025 Insync Funds Management expands its investment capability
16 Oct 2025 Westpac swings the axe on trail commissions; FANZ reacts
16 Oct 2025 Westpac scraps trail commissions on mortgages
16 Oct 2025 New Smart CEO & NZX-Group executive appointments announced
16 Oct 2025 Rules around ethical investing under review
15 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket lifts despite a2 Milk downgrade and takeover bid for KFC owner Restaurant Brands
15 Oct 2025 Fidelity Life's new Auckland and Northland BDM
15 Oct 2025 Adviser reaction to LVR easing; Adviser survey open
15 Oct 2025 Loosened LVR settings long overdue - adviser
14 Oct 2025 NZ sharemarket down 0.5% amid PGW shuffle
14 Oct 2025 [Breaking News] RBNZ to ease LVR restrictions
14 Oct 2025 RBNZ to ease LVR restrictions
14 Oct 2025 FHB's active; Have your say on mortgage advice
Latest News
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[Weekly Wrap] What we know, and don't know, about Labour's retirement policies. Plus a potential surprise
[Weekly Wrap] What we know, and don't know, about Labour's retirement policies. Plus a potential surprise
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NZX aims for 5% of KiwiSaver market in three-to-five years
NZX aims for 5% of KiwiSaver market in three-to-five years
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Trust in AI’s decision making not keeping pace with adoption
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Latest Comments
FE Investments in receivership
Fei , trustees still hold large of money not yet refund fully.
6 days ago Raymond Yang
Who is responsible for notifying policy changes?
There is no doubt the obligation is on the insurer who the contract is with. Clearly it would be prudent for an adviser to assist once given clear information by an insurer to assist with the communication but to extend this further. For an insurer to attempt to slide this onto an advisers plate is abdication. The adviser can not change the contract.
1 week ago Darryl Scott
FMA CEO on leave
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the fundamental flaw in the legislation came about partly through the event that Murray mentions, and also through the negligence of the Select Committee in ignoring the single most cited recommendation in all the submissions (over 34% from memory) of drawing a distinction between product sales and financial advice. To add to their misdemeanour, the Committee then added a paragraph to the Bill confirming that recommendation of one product only constituted financial advice - or words to that effect. The inherent conflict of interest lies in an individual retained by a Class 4 licensee being required to adhere to a code of conduct that requires prioritisation of client interests. To expect a product sales person to subordinate their contractual obligation to their employer is unrealistic, unworkable, and unreasonable. To emphasise, I have no issue with a product provider marketing and selling their own products - but not behind the opaque veil of legislation intended to govern financial advice. If MBIE ever gets around to review FSLAA, Financial Advisers, FANZ, and all other interested stakeholders should mount a fully-funded intensive campaign to persuade our employees in Wellington to remove class 4 licensees from FSLAA, and replace their obligations within an amended CoFI Act.
2 weeks ago David Whyte
FMA CEO on leave
@Murray: The reps seemed to be acting on their personal interests rather than the interests of advisers. Conflict of interest, isn't it?
2 weeks ago w k
KiwiSaver funds shake off Middle East tension
In this recent presentation of mine https://www.knowrisk.co.nz I show that the average Balanced KiwiSaver fund has added approximately +0.43% over and above the gross average policy Benchmark's return's. However, the averge annual costs of -0.97% for Balanced funds have eroded that to be slighly below BMK after costs consistent with typical SPIVA studies. Note this cost number is for the 45 Balanced Funds used only - for all KiwiSaver Funds it is closer to -0.70% p.a. The presentation goes on to show that quite a bit of return is being left on the table by the one size fits all view of risk.
2 weeks ago P Urbani