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December 2020
31 Dec 2020 Getting to Know: Rob Everett
30 Dec 2020 Kiwi nears three-year high; NZX50 falls
29 Dec 2020 NZX50 soars as Meridian joins $20b club
29 Dec 2020 Property investor survey; The case for SME lending
29 Dec 2020 PROPERTY INVESTOR Survey - Please take part
29 Dec 2020 Access to capital is key to rebooting our small business economy
29 Dec 2020 Complaints are growing but that is good news says FSCL
27 Dec 2020 Crypto heading into the mainstream
25 Dec 2020 [The Wrap] Reflecting on a year of surprises
24 Dec 2020 Merry Christmas for the local stock market
23 Dec 2020 Records tumble as NZX50 cracks 13,000
23 Dec 2020 Renewables power to new highs
23 Dec 2020 FMA’s latest licence numbers show advisers are poised for change
22 Dec 2020 NZ shares outperform Asia as blue chips bounce back
22 Dec 2020 Is the housing market cooling off?
22 Dec 2020 Is the housing market cooling off?
21 Dec 2020 Covid resurgence slaps down kiwi dollar, NZ shares
21 Dec 2020 All but one life company silent on PI requirements for advisers
21 Dec 2020 [The Wrap] What's the point of the FADC?
21 Dec 2020 Big banks say no to 40% investor deposits
21 Dec 2020 Big banks say no to 40% investor deposits
21 Dec 2020 Fine details of FSLAA revealed
21 Dec 2020 Select Wealth sticks with MMC
19 Dec 2020 Life Insurance, Covid and KiwiSaver in spotlight in FMA's 2020 annual report
18 Dec 2020 Shares plummet as A2 shocks market
18 Dec 2020 How will 40% deposit requirements affect the market?
18 Dec 2020 How will 40% deposit requirements affect the market?
18 Dec 2020 Trail CRM to launch aggregator group
17 Dec 2020 NZ equities and dollar follow GDP higher
17 Dec 2020 Trail CRM to launch aggreggator group
17 Dec 2020 Partners snares BNZ Life
16 Dec 2020 Investors in a better mood and drive sharemarket higher
16 Dec 2020 Cigna’s adviser network strengthens with swathe of new appointments
16 Dec 2020 Effective vaccine, better earnings spur on markets
16 Dec 2020 Advisers react to ANZ investor decision; Bright outlook for non-banks
16 Dec 2020 Bright outlook for non-banks
16 Dec 2020 No appetite for PI any longer: compliance expert
15 Dec 2020 NZ shares fall as covid concerns investors
15 Dec 2020 Advisers react to ANZ's LVR decision
15 Dec 2020 MMC to launch new client investor experience
15 Dec 2020 ANZ gets tough on investors
15 Dec 2020 ANZ gets tough on investors
15 Dec 2020 FMA sets expectations for issuers of ‘green’ and ‘responsible’ funds
14 Dec 2020 NZ shares fall from record
14 Dec 2020 Housing crisis a supply issue
14 Dec 2020 New adviser aboard Mortgage Express
14 Dec 2020 Top 10 investment lessons
14 Dec 2020 Reserve Bank asks for DTIs
13 Dec 2020 Adviser appears before FADC on record keeping charges
12 Dec 2020 [The Wrap] Industry blindsided by PI decision
11 Dec 2020 F&P Healthcare rises while energy stocks fall
11 Dec 2020 Reserve Bank asks for DTIs
11 Dec 2020 Business lending boost in 2021?
11 Dec 2020 Business lending boost in 2021?
11 Dec 2020 FMA issues formal warning for market manipulation
10 Dec 2020 Sharemarket rally pauses, but good gains for some stocks
10 Dec 2020 NZX launch new regulatory agency: NZ RegCo
10 Dec 2020 Why is it so hard to build a home?
10 Dec 2020 Development loans fall
10 Dec 2020 OPINION: Why doing good is good for business
10 Dec 2020 FMA: Advisers without PI should 'take the bull by the horns'
09 Dec 2020 Infratil surge pushes NZX to new record
09 Dec 2020 Mortgage advisers against bright-line test extension
09 Dec 2020 SHARE outlines growth plans
09 Dec 2020 SHARE outlines growth plans
09 Dec 2020 PI cover in doubt for small adviser firms
08 Dec 2020 NZ shares caught in global hunt for clean energy
08 Dec 2020 Renewable electricity news drives NZX 50 move
08 Dec 2020 Advisers slowly warming to Partner’s Customer Outcome Matrix
08 Dec 2020 Fidelity Life and Sharecare part company
08 Dec 2020 Why the housing market won't cool
08 Dec 2020 NZX's wrap platform tops $7 billion
07 Dec 2020 FSC: Get In Shape seminars to continue in 2021
07 Dec 2020 New initiative sees travel brokers retain as insurance advisers
07 Dec 2020 Advisers against bright-line test extension
07 Dec 2020 New guard to helm Perpetual Guardian Group
07 Dec 2020 Advisers against bright-line test extension
07 Dec 2020 Are model portfolios an idea that is transferable to insurance?
06 Dec 2020 Travel agents get their financial advice wings
04 Dec 2020 NZX 50 falls as investors get ready for summer
04 Dec 2020 Good Returns Fund Manager of the Year 2020 winners announced
04 Dec 2020 'Bullying' banking conduct
04 Dec 2020 OPINION: Wholesale investor regime no loophole
04 Dec 2020 Charge of the lite (advice) brigade
04 Dec 2020 Jeff Royle and Resimac team up for investor loans
04 Dec 2020 Data security: What advisers need to know
03 Dec 2020 Listed exporters hurting from sky high kiwi
03 Dec 2020 Jeff Royle and Resimac team up for investor loans
03 Dec 2020 BNZ warned over responsible lending; Mike Pero Mortgages hires
03 Dec 2020 Mike Pero Mortgages makes new hires
03 Dec 2020 Advice gap in stark relief
03 Dec 2020 Neglecting financial advice costs health and wealth
02 Dec 2020 NZ shares flat as strong kiwi saps rally
02 Dec 2020 Cigna announce double appointment to its board
02 Dec 2020 BNZ warned over responsible lending failings
02 Dec 2020 Australian report raises alarm over life insurance’s future
02 Dec 2020 Is a bright-line test extension imminent?; Calls to fix the housing market
02 Dec 2020 Is a bright-line test extension imminent?
02 Dec 2020 Time to stop the finger-pointing on housing
02 Dec 2020 Milford unveil KiwiSaver digital advice tools
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Latest Comments
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
As an investor, it is completely unacceptable to me that Total Remuneration continues if compulsion is brought in. It is simply wrong to continue putting downward pressure on salary and wages, particularly for people on minimum wage in a country that aspires to lift wages over time and raise the standard of living for NZers. National will lose my vote as a serious investor if they continue down the Total Remuneration path. No question...
1 week ago David Lawton
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
This is just about the only online space outside of Newstalk ZB facebook comments where speaking out against blatant wage theft by multinationals is considered 'PC'. And yet still we wonder why those pesky younger generations of potential customers wholesale refuse to engage with traditional financial services. Couldn't be because our mindsets are stuck in the 1950s - no, it must be the kids who are wrong.
1 week ago Ross Alexander
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
Murray, yup, agree with you. I see conflict of interests - the bigger the fund size, the more fees collected. Remuneration should be strictly a commercial decision because employers are the ones paying the wages. NOT for some "expert" preference. Well, an employer's budget permit a $100k package, he can pay either a) $88k salary + employer contribute $12k KS, or b) $94k salary of which $6k deducted for KS + employer contribute $6k. Depending how PC you guys want to be, and how much time and taxpayers' money you want to waste arguing about the structure.
1 week ago W K
Health and life insurers out of climate reporting
@ Murray D Weatherston - well said. The climate related disclosure (CRD) requirement for the financial services industry is yet another example of the last Government adding unnecessary cost and complexity to business. Currently banks and insurers have to hire more staff specifically to meet their new climate disclosure requirements and these costs inevitably get past on to customers. The New Zealand consumer continues to be saddled with additional costs due to an avalanche of overregulation much of which has questionable benefit. The only people who seem to be winning from this additional regulation are Wellington bureaucrats and those climate enthusiasts’ who are positioned to make a buck or secure a job. None of New Zealand's biggest climate polluters are associated with the financial services industry. Stats published by the Environmental Protection Authority in 2022 showed the biggest emitters were for milk, petrol, fossil (or natural) gas and meat businesses, with electricity, and steel companies rounding out the top group because of their fossil fuel use. By contrast, many of New Zealand’s biggest employers and profit makers (including banks, vineyards, telcos, healthcare companies and renewable energy providers) didn’t appear in the top climate polluter ranks because their emissions weren’t even high enough to qualify for compulsory reporting. As another reader of Good Returns said last year "I suspect we’ll look back on this climate reporting in years to come, with confusion & questions. Whilst there is no doubt that climate controls are increasingly important, I’m unsure whether the energy, effort & expense in producing these reports are the best use of resources &/or going to make any difference…” I look forward to the Ministry of Regulation reviewing and ultimately deciding to remove climate related disclosures as a compliance requirement for all of the New Zealand financial services industry.
2 weeks ago Simon Rule
KiwiSaver an option for mortgage advisers seeking ongoing income, provider says
Wy would any mortgage or insurance adviser refer their client to a kiwi saver provider/scheme that the owners also own a competing mortgage advisor and insurance company, whom already has a history of growing group schemes and then marketing to those customers directly for their own business entities.
2 weeks ago Valkyrie Vulcan