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December 2023
31 Dec 2023 Coming into land in 2024
29 Dec 2023 5th worst year for NZX50 in 15 years
29 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket looking to end the year up, despite soft retail data
28 Dec 2023 Expect more mortgagee sales
23 Dec 2023 Wishing you the best
22 Dec 2023 Market closes on sour note from Synlait Milk
22 Dec 2023 Paul Gregory to leave FMA
22 Dec 2023 Three risks we are thinking about for 2024
21 Dec 2023 End-of-year rally for shares continues
21 Dec 2023 Big shake up at NZFSG
21 Dec 2023 Christmas cheer?
21 Dec 2023 Will the 60/40 classic portfolio return to form in 2024?
20 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket dips in wake of govt announcements
20 Dec 2023 Orr fronts up to new Govt: TMM Conference tickets available
20 Dec 2023 FSC cancels major conference
20 Dec 2023 RBNZ: record immigration may mean rates stay high for longer
20 Dec 2023 Liberty sells real estate business
20 Dec 2023 [GRTV] Three to four fund sweet spot with multi manager KiwiSaver
20 Dec 2023 PGI switches unit holders to climate-indexed approach
19 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket firms ahead of mini-budget and economic update
19 Dec 2023 Hard times will get harder next year for mortgage advisers
19 Dec 2023 KiwiSaver will be the most important part of advice
19 Dec 2023 Jarden views investment banking and wealth management as “a dis-synergy”
19 Dec 2023 No waiting – OCR cuts expected next year
18 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket listless on light trade
18 Dec 2023 Fisher Funds partners with NZX Wealth Technologies
18 Dec 2023 Finsure plans an aggressive pitch for NZ mortgage advisers
18 Dec 2023 Listings surge and prices up
18 Dec 2023 New currency-hedged ethical fund from Betashares
18 Dec 2023 Finsure plans an aggressive pitch for NZ mortgage advisers in 2024
15 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket flat but more than $300m changes hands
15 Dec 2023 Ex-mortgage adviser pleads guilty to further dishonesty offences
15 Dec 2023 Former mortgage adviser pleads guilty to further dishonesty offences
15 Dec 2023 Big payday coming for Harbour on top of FirstCape merger
14 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket reaches 14 week high
14 Dec 2023 New Zealand GDP in reverse, OCR cuts may dominate next year
14 Dec 2023 OCR rates cuts should dominate next year
14 Dec 2023 Christchurch FAP cops criticism from the FMA
14 Dec 2023 Jarden, NAB form FirstCape including Harbour
14 Dec 2023 Listed companies beef up retail investor relations with new portal
13 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket rises as Auckland airport shares lift off
13 Dec 2023 Stress on mortgage advisers high
13 Dec 2023 Mortgage advisers more stressed that others
13 Dec 2023 Mounting migration means more demand and pressure
13 Dec 2023 Partners names new CEO to replace Naomi Ballantyne
13 Dec 2023 Asteron sees good growth in employee insurance segment
13 Dec 2023 MDRT
13 Dec 2023 Housing market still at a low ebb despite lift in sales
13 Dec 2023 BIG to govt: the FMA should redirect focus to high-risk areas
12 Dec 2023 Shares dip as investors await US data
12 Dec 2023 Debt-to-income still in the melting pot
12 Dec 2023 Southern Cross fills sales role
12 Dec 2023 Advisers' mental health improves but still concerning
12 Dec 2023 DTIs still in the melting pot
12 Dec 2023 Bond funds added to Kernel suite
11 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket slips as Rakon shares rocket
11 Dec 2023 Animal spirits - global stock markets have closed out their best month in several years, but can the rally continue?
11 Dec 2023 Platinum appoints new chief executive
11 Dec 2023 Hugh Stevens buys the iSelect Uk pensions advice business
11 Dec 2023 Permanent stop order made against financial adviser
11 Dec 2023 Emotional harm award to tenant after power and water cut off
09 Dec 2023 [OPINION] What I would like to see in 2024
08 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket closes the week flat
08 Dec 2023 ChatGPT, the Magnificent Seven, Ozempic, and Higher-for-longer
08 Dec 2023 Squeeze on all over the economy
08 Dec 2023 Lindsay learns the benefits and pitfalls of the product he sold for 52 years the hard way
08 Dec 2023 Shuttered FAP owes around $8 million
08 Dec 2023 Shuttered FAP owes around $8 million
07 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket lifts into positive territory for the year
07 Dec 2023 Haakie to move on
07 Dec 2023 Reality difference between numbers of loan applications and people in market
07 Dec 2023 Apartment market takes a dive
06 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket close to wiping out its deficit for the year
06 Dec 2023 Kelvin Davidson takes a deep dive into the mortgage market stats
06 Dec 2023 Ten things to know about mortgage debt
06 Dec 2023 [GRTV] Get the country’s under insurance back on the agenda
06 Dec 2023 Auckland housing market rebounding
06 Dec 2023 Most of the NZX 50 now links top exec pay to ESG
05 Dec 2023 NZ shares drift as Aussie central bank holds rates while talking tough
05 Dec 2023 ANZ names new CIO
05 Dec 2023 Forsyth Barr buys Hobson Wealth to create $30b in funds under advice
05 Dec 2023 Mostly passive AMP Wealth gets active with climate impact fund
05 Dec 2023 More new high growth funds launched
05 Dec 2023 RBNZ tough talk questioned: Give us a breather FANZ says
05 Dec 2023 Financial Advice NZ wants new govt to give advisers a breather
05 Dec 2023 Market doesn't believe RBNZ's tough talk
05 Dec 2023 Tenant left with damages bill despite not being responsible
04 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket flat as index newcomers shine
04 Dec 2023 NZ Super Fund appoints acting CEO
04 Dec 2023 Interest-only loans spurned as mortgage arrears increase
04 Dec 2023 Private landlords should be included in bill – Property Brokers
01 Dec 2023 Asteron Life takes out top gong for 4th time
01 Dec 2023 NZ sharemarket ends first day of summer on a positive note
01 Dec 2023 Sustainable investment grows down under
01 Dec 2023 Lessons Charlie Munger taught businesses
01 Dec 2023 OCR assumptions don’t add up
November 2023
30 Nov 2023 NZ sharemarket rallies with $670m turnover on index changes
30 Nov 2023 RBNZ dashes hope of 2024 interest rate cut; Record immigration to blame
30 Nov 2023 Too expensive and wrong – new property manager regulations needed
30 Nov 2023 Record immigration to blame for rates staying higher for longer: RBNZ
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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