Apex Advice's Christchurch office brings personal and business financial advice to Addington, operating from Building 2, 1 Show Place. It is one of nine Apex Advice offices across New Zealand and the Cook Islands, and the local team is led by South Island Director Dusten Renshaw alongside eight financial advisers — Brent Lattimore, Christophe Bryant, Gary Anderson, Jarrod Lobb, Josh Simpson, Mike Rawlings, Paul Stolworthy and Tia Vorster.
The practice works across three connected areas. On the protection side: life, health, critical illness, permanent disability, income protection and mortgage protection insurance, plus immigration medical insurance and business covers such as key person, insurance for professionals, share purchase insurance and workplace and employee benefits. On the ownership side: home loan advice for first homes, next homes, refinancing, investment property and paying a loan off faster. And on the growth side: KiwiSaver, retirement planning, UK pension transfers and general investing, alongside commercial loans and business growth funding.
Apex sums its approach up as Protect, Own, Grow — a holistic view of your financial wellbeing. As the firm puts it, the job is having 'the right products in place at precisely the right time for your life', and being '100% on your side' — so should you ever need to make a claim, you'll find them standing in your corner.
First consultations are free and can be booked through the website's contact form; the Christchurch team is reachable directly on 03 372 1313, with inquiries answered within one business day during office hours of 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
Financial decisions rarely arrive one at a time. A first home, a new baby, a business that suddenly carries staff and a commercial lease — Apex Advice's Christchurch office exists for exactly these moments. Working from Building 2, 1 Show Place in Addington, the team helps Cantabrians put the right insurance, lending and investment structures in place, then keeps an eye on them as life changes.
The Christchurch office is one of nine Apex Advice locations, sitting alongside Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Hawke's Bay, Queenstown, Te Awamutu, Whakatāne and an office in the Cook Islands. Locally it is led by South Island Director Dusten Renshaw, working alongside financial advisers Brent Lattimore, Christophe Bryant, Gary Anderson, Jarrod Lobb, Josh Simpson, Mike Rawlings, Paul Stolworthy and Tia Vorster — nine sets of expertise under one Addington roof.
Apex frames its work around three words: Protect, Own, Grow. The idea is a holistic view of your financial wellbeing — being correctly financed, fully protected and saving enough for the future — so the decisions you make today still hold up years from now.
On the protecting side, advisers arrange personal cover including life insurance, health insurance, critical illness insurance, permanent disability insurance, income protection and mortgage protection. There's also immigration medical insurance for people putting cover in place as part of a move to New Zealand.
Businesses get the same protective thinking through key person insurance, insurance for professionals, share purchase insurance and workplace and employee benefits — the kind of cover that keeps a company steady when its people face the unexpected.
On the owning side, home loan advice covers the whole journey: first home loans, purchasing a different home, refinancing an existing loan, plans for paying your home loan faster, finance for an investment property, and the Loan Smart service for structuring and managing lending wisely.
Growth covers KiwiSaver advice, retirement planning, UK pension transfers and investing wisely more generally — useful whether you're choosing your first KiwiSaver fund or finally untangling an old UK pension. Commercial loans and business growth funding round out the picture for business clients.
The firm puts its philosophy plainly: 'Our job is to ensure we've got the right products in place at precisely the right time for your life. Ensuring you're correctly financed, fully protected, and saving enough for the future. But more importantly, we're 100% on your side — so should you ever need to make a claim, you'll find us standing in your corner.'
That last line matters. Insurance is easy to buy and harder to claim, and Apex keeps returning to the idea that having advisers who know your whole situation — and stand with you through a claim — is where good advice earns its keep.
First consultations are free and booked through the website, where a short form asks whether you're a new or existing client, what you need help with — personal insurance, home loans, KiwiSaver, personal investment, business insurance, business lending or business investment — and which office suits, with Christchurch on the list.
Prefer to talk to a human first? The branch can be reached directly on 03 372 1313, or through Apex's national contact points: 0800 809 009 and [email protected]. Inquiries are answered within one business day, during office hours of 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
If you'd rather do some homework first, the Apex website carries calculators and resources alongside regular insights and client stories — a useful way to arrive at your first meeting with sharper questions.
Whether you're protecting a young family, restructuring lending, or looking after the people who make your business run, the message from the Addington team is consistent: get the right structures in place at the right time — and know there's someone firmly in your corner when the paperwork really counts.