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May 2015
29 May 2015 AMP offers $1000 prize
29 May 2015 Getting to know...Peter Leitch
29 May 2015 Did issues paper miss opportunities?
29 May 2015 FMA starts major investigation into churn
29 May 2015 Squirrel waiting on P2P licence
28 May 2015 Receivers called in
28 May 2015 ASB records bumper lending in first quarter
28 May 2015 Qualification questions may cause concerns
28 May 2015 Crown land release info coming this week
27 May 2015 SuperCity yields on steep decline
27 May 2015 OCR to stay put - NZIER
27 May 2015 FAA review issues paper welcomed
27 May 2015 Risk adviser's guide to the FAA review
27 May 2015 Southern Cross: Claims keep growing
27 May 2015 Auckland market primed to soften
26 May 2015 Tackling Auckland’s housing issues
26 May 2015 NZX gets pass mark
26 May 2015 Commission, designations, qualifications on review hitlist
26 May 2015 Issues paper on FAA review out
26 May 2015 Conference nearly full
26 May 2015 Call for education to top FAA review checklist
26 May 2015 New Zealand advisers won't dodge bullet: Rickerby
25 May 2015 Investors driving lower end of Auckland market
25 May 2015 Removal of incentive means more work for advisers: Matthews
25 May 2015 Partnerships needed in social housing
25 May 2015 Regional Review - Nelson/Tasman
24 May 2015 Budget not enough: HFANZ
22 May 2015 [People] New groups adds to supply of advisers
22 May 2015 ASB gets more aggressive with pricing
22 May 2015 Chinese banks creeping into lending market
22 May 2015 FAA steering group manned by officials
21 May 2015 No surprise Budget leaves focus on Auckland housing market
21 May 2015 Assets of FX trader seized
21 May 2015 $52 million to address Auckland’s housing supply problem
21 May 2015 Budget 2015: Property Related Initiatives
21 May 2015 [BUDGET] New KiwiSaver members miss out on Kick Start
21 May 2015 AIA gets new chief executive
21 May 2015 Crown land to be used for affordable housing
21 May 2015 NZAM adds to exec team
21 May 2015 AML audit rush feared
21 May 2015 KiwiSaver members not on track
21 May 2015 Record migration means need for regional incentives
20 May 2015 Rents continue steady climb up
20 May 2015 NZIG turns to crowdfunding
19 May 2015 FSPR crackdown
19 May 2015 Ministry needs to better understand disputes schemes: FSCL
19 May 2015 Treat resources with care: Sheather
19 May 2015 Healthy lifestyle property market: REINZ
18 May 2015 Cancer cover suits direct market
18 May 2015 Defence Force seeks AFAs
18 May 2015 Wealth Defender IPO successful
18 May 2015 Multi-pronged attack on Auckland market means OCR cut likely
18 May 2015 NZX appoints fund management boss
18 May 2015 NZX names new head of funds management business
18 May 2015 Lots of changes today
18 May 2015 Dodds: Higher requirement inevitable
17 May 2015 New tax measures aimed at speculators, overseas buyers
15 May 2015 Sovereign sells wealth platform
15 May 2015 Cash back or rate cut; What would you take?
15 May 2015 Sovereign breaks with ASB on one-year rates
15 May 2015 The only way is up for the PAA: Severn
15 May 2015 Society aims to recruit AFAs
14 May 2015 College adds mortgage adviser module
14 May 2015 Overseas buyers: are they an issue?
14 May 2015 Global upturn could knock NZ market
13 May 2015 RBNZ policy meant to chill Auckland market - but will it?
13 May 2015 Claims top $1 billion for another year
13 May 2015 Former Liberty BDM goes it alone
13 May 2015 New investors, tenants likely to bear brunt of RBNZ move
13 May 2015 Adviser pleads guilty
13 May 2015 Why has the Reserve Bank targeted investors?
13 May 2015 Steepening NZ yield curve
13 May 2015 RBNZ hits Auckland property investors
13 May 2015 Auckland landlords face new lending restrictions
13 May 2015 Auckland landlords face new lending restrictions
13 May 2015 Associations must change, IFA bosses say
13 May 2015 Cosignia acquired
12 May 2015 CFA putting investors first
12 May 2015 Property borrowing to get easier with arrival of LendMe
12 May 2015 Decline in NZ’s median price – but not Auckland’s
12 May 2015 Long rates up, short rates to fall?
12 May 2015 Another adviser for Plus4
12 May 2015 More banks call for OCR cuts
12 May 2015 KiwiSaver schemes lose QROPS status
12 May 2015 Private equity – a role for KiwiSaver? (Part 2)
12 May 2015 Rising price expectations, gloomy purchasing sentiment
11 May 2015 Insurance jobs up
11 May 2015 OCR cut forecasts increasing
11 May 2015 Fidelity Life appoints director
11 May 2015 BNZ rolls out new Special
11 May 2015 Old trail income under review
11 May 2015 Risk management a challenge
11 May 2015 Victory for business in change to earthquake rules
08 May 2015 NZF in administration
08 May 2015 PGC seeks $22 million from Bath St Capital
08 May 2015 KiwiSaver drives managed funds lift
08 May 2015 KiwiSavers reminded not to miss out
08 May 2015 Investors urged to consider alternatives
08 May 2015 Appeal for IRD campaign on property taxation
07 May 2015 BNZ banks on brokers
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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