ICIB Acquires Life and Health Risk Business
ICIB Brokerweb acquiring the life and health risk business of a Christchurch-based practice drew much reader interest this week...
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Advisers Urged to Maintain Cyber Vigilance
NZFSG urging the advice sector to exercise heightened vigilance as cyber criminals ramp up activity over the holiday period drew plenty of reader interest...
Latest Poll – 2025 Policy Cancellations?
Our most voted-on poll by far this year asked you in February whether your advice practice had experienced a higher rate of life insurance policy...
Rising Support Team Costs – Your Verdict
New Zealand advisers’ support team costs, our latest poll indicates, have risen over the past two years.
As we go to press nearly six in...
Australian Advice Firms Enter New Era of Talent Scarcity
Financial advice practices in Australia are facing the most competitive talent market in a decade, with new research revealing sharp increases in remuneration, surging...
Who is Paying Whom for Financial Advice?
GUEST COLUMNIST – TONY VIDLER
Who is paying whom for financial advice will become the biggest question in consumers' minds as the industry stakeholders continually...
Futurist Urges Advisers to Rewire Negative Thinking
Behavioural scientist and futurist Milo Wilkinson told a risk specialist dealer group conference in Australia that human behaviour is far more predictable — and...
FMA Check-In on Licensed Providers’ Operational Resilience
News that the FMA is undertaking a 'significant survey' looking at the operational resilience of licensed market service providers, including financial...
AI in Advice Certificate Launched
Financial Advice New Zealand has launched an AI in Advice Certificate, a 12-week executive short course designed to help financial advisers embed AI tools...