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June 2016
24 Jun 2016 SBS records growth in a "difficult" year
24 Jun 2016 'No commission' structure doesn't translate
24 Jun 2016 Boutiques take hold in NZ
24 Jun 2016 Meth bill on the cards
23 Jun 2016 Rents spike in regions
23 Jun 2016 Otago leads rental growth pack
23 Jun 2016 Turbo-charged returns can't last: Super Fund
23 Jun 2016 Roboadvice could complement adviser businesses
22 Jun 2016 Second SPGI director sentenced
22 Jun 2016 Mortgage lending raises red flag
22 Jun 2016 Migration past its peak - economists
22 Jun 2016 Borrowing frenzy risks
22 Jun 2016 FSCL cuts fees
21 Jun 2016 [Comment] Advice matters
21 Jun 2016 Extra rates for investors?
21 Jun 2016 Accuro ventures deeper into SME market
21 Jun 2016 Forget returns and fees, investors told
21 Jun 2016 Regulation fears for advice businesses' value
21 Jun 2016 Check building guarantees - ComCom
20 Jun 2016 Local govt to target investors?
20 Jun 2016 Former finance firm completes full circle
20 Jun 2016 Institutional backing gets blame for high rates
20 Jun 2016 Westpac revises house price forecasts
20 Jun 2016 Banks boost adviser job ads
20 Jun 2016 FNZ signs up with service to improve efficiencies
20 Jun 2016 Real estate fans should consider listed property: AMP Capital
20 Jun 2016 What's the home for direct-owned and listed property in a portfolio?
20 Jun 2016 Health & safety: what you need to know
18 Jun 2016 NZ equity management: Will the tight-five continue to dominate play?
17 Jun 2016 New adviser body not on NAC menu
17 Jun 2016 Fee changes get advisers worked up
17 Jun 2016 Woman guilty of mortgage fraud
17 Jun 2016 New adviser association - yes, no, maybe?
17 Jun 2016 Platform aims for 'Xero of investment admin'
16 Jun 2016 Shot on goal for AIA
16 Jun 2016 Your views on the (proposed) new adviser association
16 Jun 2016 Kepa's fees changes for mortgage advisers worrying move
16 Jun 2016 Trans-Tasman appointment for Milford
16 Jun 2016 SuperCity apartments winners for investors
16 Jun 2016 Regions hot, Auckland cooling
16 Jun 2016 Low interest rates likely to be a problem for some time
16 Jun 2016 Hot and cold in regional auction
15 Jun 2016 Regions outpacing Auckland - REINZ
15 Jun 2016 Commissions not driving adviser behaviour
15 Jun 2016 Ageing workforce an issue for advice
15 Jun 2016 It's swings and round abouts today
15 Jun 2016 Kepa to bump up adviser fees
14 Jun 2016 Scam email targets finance sector
14 Jun 2016 SBS appoints former ASB exec as its new CEO
14 Jun 2016 More KiwiSaver options wanted
14 Jun 2016 Blaming landlords not the answer
14 Jun 2016 AMP appoints co-head of New Zealand fixed income
14 Jun 2016 Banks tighten belt on foreign borrowing
14 Jun 2016 Clarification offered on Financial Advice NZ questions
14 Jun 2016 Ross liquidators contact more investors
13 Jun 2016 ASB joins other main banks in limiting foreign borrowing
13 Jun 2016 ASB joins banks restricting foreign buyers
13 Jun 2016 Property hunter
13 Jun 2016 BNZ just pips Westpac with new Special
13 Jun 2016 FMA must reveal more of Warminger case
13 Jun 2016 A focus on sustainable growth and quality
13 Jun 2016 NZX sees ETF popularity grow
10 Jun 2016 Former Southern Cross boss dies
10 Jun 2016 Bay of Plenty new growth star
10 Jun 2016 RBNZ says LVR restrictions worked; but not how people expected
10 Jun 2016 Details of Financial Advice NZ yet to be worked out
10 Jun 2016 Rotorua property auction delivers varying results
10 Jun 2016 BNZ, Westpac, ANZ restrict foreign lending
09 Jun 2016 One body to rule them all
09 Jun 2016 More investor lending restrictions looming
09 Jun 2016 PAA and IFA reveal plans to launch new, unified organisation
09 Jun 2016 LVR restrictions stopped $20 bill of lending
09 Jun 2016 More on OCR announcement plus Live Webcast
09 Jun 2016 Financial stability reason for unchanged OCR
09 Jun 2016 Risk poor policy analysis could affect commission decisions
09 Jun 2016 OCR stays at 2.25% - What the bank said today
09 Jun 2016 Official Cash Rate left unchanged
09 Jun 2016 PAA and IFA reveal plans to launch new, unified organisation
09 Jun 2016 New option offered to pension transferers
09 Jun 2016 Without a voice
08 Jun 2016 Investor opportunities exist in Chch
08 Jun 2016 'Drastic' lending changes to challenge investors
08 Jun 2016 Trades concentrated with top five brokers
07 Jun 2016 ANZ's lending changes surprise mortgage advisers
07 Jun 2016 Boosting Auckland returns with AirBnB
07 Jun 2016 Cashing in on interest rates
07 Jun 2016 Mortgage Supply lassos brokers out West
07 Jun 2016 Investors want more engagement
07 Jun 2016 A view of Brexit, from London
06 Jun 2016 Financial services people recognised in Queens Birthday awards
03 Jun 2016 Advisers in the sweet spot
03 Jun 2016 Brokers real success story for The Co-operative Bank
03 Jun 2016 OCR holding - Economists
03 Jun 2016 [EXCLUSIVE] Banks capture most new AFAs
03 Jun 2016 OCR calls favour hold
03 Jun 2016 Auckland prices static
02 Jun 2016 Debt-to-income ratios under discussion
02 Jun 2016 Councils must open up land to match growth
02 Jun 2016 Don't believe all the hype about property flipping
02 Jun 2016 Frequent flipping a myth
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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