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June 2009
22 Jun 2009 Advice a one-in-five event, study finds
22 Jun 2009 Economists back to normal: they don't agree
22 Jun 2009 News round-up
22 Jun 2009 Economic times provide great opportunities: Free Webcast
21 Jun 2009 Rates Round Up
20 Jun 2009 Other banks unlikely to follow TSB
19 Jun 2009 Where to for home loan rates?
19 Jun 2009 [Weekly Wrap] DominatING headlines again
19 Jun 2009 Solving the ING Rubik’s cube
19 Jun 2009 Some explanations from BNZ
19 Jun 2009 Days of earning commission numbered: Arkinstall
19 Jun 2009 BNZ mortgage book grows, profit falls
18 Jun 2009 Complaints prompt Securities Commission to warn ING investors
18 Jun 2009 New paper on regulating advisers out
18 Jun 2009 Banks back insulation scheme
18 Jun 2009 Two up for Triplejump
18 Jun 2009 KiwiSaver funds back in black
18 Jun 2009 Deposit rates delaying property price recovery
18 Jun 2009 ASFONZ & Women in Super Industry Breakfast
18 Jun 2009 TSB drops two-year fixed rate
18 Jun 2009 AMP Capital sales chief goes in restructure
17 Jun 2009 PSIS says margin on deposits more than halved
17 Jun 2009 No magic bullet for sunset dates
17 Jun 2009 ASFONZ & Women in Super Industry Breakfast
17 Jun 2009 ANZ profit falls; mortgages sold to new branch
17 Jun 2009 ING faces fury as offer divides investors
16 Jun 2009 ING faces fury as offer divides investors
16 Jun 2009 Where to for home loan rates?
16 Jun 2009 RaboPlus slashes entry fee on managed funds
16 Jun 2009 Market picks rates to rise earlier than RBNZ forecasts
16 Jun 2009 Be careful before investing in cash PIEs
16 Jun 2009 Feeble attempt to lower floating rates
16 Jun 2009 Migration underpins lift in property, outlook still unclear
15 Jun 2009 Farewell Naomi
15 Jun 2009 Ballantyne to leave ING Life
15 Jun 2009 Ballantyne to leave ING LIfe
14 Jun 2009 Bond Focus: NZ yield curve stretched by bond sales, low rates
14 Jun 2009 Rates Round Up
12 Jun 2009 Geneva pares loss on cost cutting, restructure
12 Jun 2009 Water those green shoots
12 Jun 2009 Macquarie grows Kiwi advice team
12 Jun 2009 LBA commits to independent future
12 Jun 2009 AUSTRALIA Series 1 - Accessing an Australian equity recovery
12 Jun 2009 Staying short the best strategy
12 Jun 2009 Fisher Funds KiwiSaver bucks the trend
12 Jun 2009 Brook closing fund
11 Jun 2009 What economists are saying
11 Jun 2009 New CFO for ING NZ
11 Jun 2009 Prices slip, volumes hold in May: REINZ
11 Jun 2009 SHARE Conference 2009
11 Jun 2009 REINZ residential highlights - May 2009
11 Jun 2009 RBNZ keeps key rate at 2.5% amid signs of stabilisation
11 Jun 2009 Dollar, rates jump after Bollard leaves rates unchanged
11 Jun 2009 OCR unchanged at 2.5%
11 Jun 2009 Fund managers pick China
10 Jun 2009 Trappy joins BIG
10 Jun 2009 Banks should disclose profit margins: Bawden
10 Jun 2009 Banks are bastards…
10 Jun 2009 SuperLife hits out at default providers after eosaver exit
10 Jun 2009 MPs slam banks over interest rates
09 Jun 2009 MPs slam banks over interest rates
09 Jun 2009 Building work falls less than expected
09 Jun 2009 Criminalising not helpful, says tenancy group
09 Jun 2009 Market Review: June 2009 Commentary
09 Jun 2009 Market Review: June 2009 London Commentary
09 Jun 2009 AXA favours returns in emerging equity markets
09 Jun 2009 Allan Hawkins defends prospectus
08 Jun 2009 Rates Round Up
08 Jun 2009 News Round Up
08 Jun 2009 Property prices stabilise with cheaper lending rates: QV
08 Jun 2009 TSB grows profits and mortgage book; HSBC's profit more than doubles
08 Jun 2009 QV regional highlights - May 2009
07 Jun 2009 Economists divided on next move for interest rates
05 Jun 2009 Property market picks up after
05 Jun 2009 Budget delivers warm blast
05 Jun 2009 Tower: Commodity Investing in 2009
05 Jun 2009 National says no to capital gains tax
05 Jun 2009 Loopholes removed from NAP law
05 Jun 2009 First KiwiSaver fund to close
05 Jun 2009 Merger heralds mega ambitions for online financial firm
04 Jun 2009 First KiwiSaver fund to close
04 Jun 2009 Bridgecorp directors banned
04 Jun 2009 Buist climbs Guardian ranks
04 Jun 2009 Auckland housing demand picks up
04 Jun 2009 Rates seesaw continues
04 Jun 2009 Advisers selling risk over investment products
04 Jun 2009 Members clear way for IFA’s new disciplinary bylaw
04 Jun 2009 Attention turns to risk products as demand for investment wanes
03 Jun 2009 Share makes new appointment
03 Jun 2009 Recession fails to dent demand for risk products
03 Jun 2009 Mortgage rate commentary: Little action
03 Jun 2009 St Laurence reports $87.2m loss
03 Jun 2009 Kiwibank continues explosive growth; ASB profit drops
02 Jun 2009 Labour heads to Select Committee over RTA bill
02 Jun 2009 ASFONZ Education Module: Trustee Investment Decisions
02 Jun 2009 Sue directors, not advisers: Lawyer
02 Jun 2009 News Round Up
02 Jun 2009 Is it worth breaking your mortgage?
01 Jun 2009 Rates Round Up
01 Jun 2009 IFA appoints new Independent Director
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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