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June 2012
18 Jun 2012 News Round Up: June 16
18 Jun 2012 Spicers gets new MD
18 Jun 2012 Rates round-up: June 18
18 Jun 2012 'New' breed of advice anything but
18 Jun 2012 Increased house sales not just about interest rates
18 Jun 2012 Prices set to rise further: Newland
18 Jun 2012 Heritage properties face 500% increase in insurance bills
15 Jun 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Catching the cowboys
15 Jun 2012 What the OCR news means for home loans
15 Jun 2012 The benefits of being a QFE adviser
15 Jun 2012 It's a seller's market: Survey
15 Jun 2012 More sales? Don't blame the interest rates: Harcourts
15 Jun 2012 Auckland rent rises outstrip rest of country
14 Jun 2012 NZ Super Fund yet to reach benchmark
14 Jun 2012 GFNZ (Geneva Finance) narrows annual loss
14 Jun 2012 Pie grows with new appointment
14 Jun 2012 Bollard keeps rates on hold; OCR cut an outside chance
14 Jun 2012 OCR unchanged at 2.5 percent
14 Jun 2012 Reserve Bank's Bollard holds OCR steady
14 Jun 2012 Flat fee advice model ‘rubbish’
14 Jun 2012 What will the Gov do?
14 Jun 2012 More vendors choose auctions: REINZ
14 Jun 2012 Bollard keeps rates on hold; OCR cut an outside chance
13 Jun 2012 Stewart resigns from ACC
13 Jun 2012 Is this a sign of things to come?
13 Jun 2012 Are prostitutes more useful than advisers?
13 Jun 2012 No dispute over mortgagee figures: Helm
12 Jun 2012 New analyst appointment at Harbour
12 Jun 2012 Majority of KiwiSavers facing shortfall, irrespective of fund choice
12 Jun 2012 Prices almost as high as they've ever been, experts agree
12 Jun 2012 REINZ May 2012 regional review
12 Jun 2012 100-year-old problem for advisers
12 Jun 2012 Who is forcing mortgagee sales?
12 Jun 2012 Buyers get heavy discount at mortgagee sales
12 Jun 2012 Property investment safe bet with so many MPs on side
11 Jun 2012 SFO charges adviser with $5 million fraud
11 Jun 2012 Interest rate poll results plus survey
11 Jun 2012 News Round Up: June 11
11 Jun 2012 Rates round-up: June 11
11 Jun 2012 Policy documents must improve
11 Jun 2012 OCR to stay low: Poll
10 Jun 2012 Markets still pricing in interest rate cut
09 Jun 2012 Big banks drive mortgagee sales: Terralink
08 Jun 2012 Partners Life adds a CFO
08 Jun 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Fees and resignations
08 Jun 2012 Fund manager fee disparity questioned
08 Jun 2012 What do you think will happen with interest rates?
08 Jun 2012 Water changes outrage landlords
07 Jun 2012 Westpac says empowering front-line staff fuels mortgage book growth
07 Jun 2012 How much you will pay to fund the FMA
07 Jun 2012 NZ shares fairly expensive: Glass
07 Jun 2012 SBS follows TSB down on two year term
07 Jun 2012 First-home buying never been easier: Broker
06 Jun 2012 IFA boss resigns
06 Jun 2012 IFA boss resigns
06 Jun 2012 Harbour commentary: Deja Vu: Europe on the Brink Again
06 Jun 2012 New CEO appointed for UDC Finance
06 Jun 2012 TSB takes two-year rate down
06 Jun 2012 Website puts focus on eco-homes
06 Jun 2012 Residential slowdown leads building slump
06 Jun 2012 Barfoot reports busiest May in seven years, record price
05 Jun 2012 RFAs warned against ‘dangerous’ KiwiSaver game
05 Jun 2012 Advisers lack ‘persuasive message’ around KiwiSaver
05 Jun 2012 GFNZ to release new prospectus; S&P puts it on negative credit watch
05 Jun 2012 GFNZ to release new prospectus; S&P puts it on negative credit watch
05 Jun 2012 Cheap not necessarily best
05 Jun 2012 Tyndall Monthly Commentary
05 Jun 2012 Westpac and TSB's loan books in the spotlight
05 Jun 2012 Why China’s rise favours NZ over Oz
05 Jun 2012 TSB grows loan book on higher LVR business
05 Jun 2012 Rates round-up: June 5
05 Jun 2012 Buyers queue for quake-hit properties
04 Jun 2012 Koh replaced on IFA board
01 Jun 2012 IFA announces new director, further two-year term for Tate
01 Jun 2012 Westpac's mortgage book resumed aggressive growth in March Qtr
01 Jun 2012 Big role for former NZ manager
01 Jun 2012 Listings surge a winter warmer for property market
01 Jun 2012 [Weekly wrap] Thorny issues for advisers
01 Jun 2012 Sovereign survey to help grow group cover
01 Jun 2012 Boutiques go it alone - but not on distribution
01 Jun 2012 Rate cutting stimulates housing market
01 Jun 2012 Apartments back in vogue
01 Jun 2012 Govt plans cuts to accommodation supplement
01 Jun 2012 Loans for first home buyers cut
May 2012
31 May 2012 Reserve Bank data show mortgage cuts stimulating activity
31 May 2012 Kiwibank's mortgage book grows fast but momentum slips
31 May 2012 One bank up; another not so good
31 May 2012 Why financial advisers should do CPD
31 May 2012 Tenants warned of scams
30 May 2012 NZF Group posts $16.2 m annual loss
30 May 2012 Labour eyes locking KiwiSaver funds in NZ
30 May 2012 Kiwibank claims win with rate campaign
30 May 2012 HSBC mortgage book shrinkage
30 May 2012 The OCR may actually fall this year
30 May 2012 Has FMA picked the wrong target?
30 May 2012 Housing consents suffer from April fall
29 May 2012 An outside chance of an OCR cut this year
29 May 2012 Cold calling cleared (with a catch)
29 May 2012 Who knows where rates are heading?
29 May 2012 No housing bubble: REINZ
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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