New Global Research Explores AI’s Growing Role in Financial Planning and the Value ofProfessional Advice.

What a structurally different world demands of financial advisers.

 Strengthening the Private Insurance Pool, Building Private Healthcare Capacity, and relieving New Zealand’s Public Health System. 

 A new MartinJenkins report, commissioned by the Financial Services Council, shows health and life insurance already play an important role in New Zealand’s wider health system. The opportunity now is to better recognise and strengthen that contribution alongside the public system. 

Simplicity’s Chief Economist Shamubeel Eaqub asks if higher fees in KiwiSaver funds have produced higher net returns.

The FSC’s new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Financial Services in New Zealand, brings together global evidence, national context and FSC’s own sector research to understand how trust in AI is forming - particularly in a sector where trust matters more than almost anything else.Kiwis are open to AI helping them. They are much less comfortable with AI making big decisions about their money.

The Financial Services Council (FSC) is calling for a fundamental reset in how New Zealand approaches financial resilience.

The Lifetime Group has produced a White Paper of the future of health insurance.