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July 2018
18 Jul 2018 Patten takes down broking shingle after 16 years
18 Jul 2018 Bank profits under pressure - KPMG
18 Jul 2018 Advisers 'reluctant' to invest in marketing
17 Jul 2018 Soft market due to more than winter chill
17 Jul 2018 Owner-occupiers better protected; Latest house price stats
17 Jul 2018 Q&A with PM Capital CIO Paul Moore
17 Jul 2018 To be or not to be? (A Conglomerate)
17 Jul 2018 Owner occupiers better protected now: RBNZ (+ Report)
17 Jul 2018 Group of AFAs tackles KiwiSaver problems
17 Jul 2018 Ross liquidators: No end in sight
17 Jul 2018 Capital Group signs NZ deal
16 Jul 2018 How automated is your business?
16 Jul 2018 It makes sense to rent
16 Jul 2018 Regulation 'should not drive business structure'
13 Jul 2018 ANZ appoints two Business Development Managers
13 Jul 2018 Govt steps up building programme
13 Jul 2018 Crazy rental plans proposed
13 Jul 2018 Flawed rental policy not the answer
13 Jul 2018 Hobson Wealth Partners fills ranks
13 Jul 2018 Consumer feedback 'good reminder'
12 Jul 2018 Top chair finally filled at Trustees Executors
12 Jul 2018 Rental “fix” plan not realistic
12 Jul 2018 Financial advisers can help boost confidence: FMA
12 Jul 2018 An update on meth standards
12 Jul 2018 Tribunal sticks to existing meth standard
12 Jul 2018 Effective disclosure requires better financial literacy
11 Jul 2018 Real estate agent admits Izone Park fraud
11 Jul 2018 Housing infrastructure loans announced
11 Jul 2018 New chief investment officer for ANZ Investments
11 Jul 2018 The one-bank trap for investors
11 Jul 2018 Proposed commission model 'cross-subsidisation'
11 Jul 2018 Time for 'green' classification system
10 Jul 2018 TSB heroes 18-month rate
10 Jul 2018 Chill Out, it’s Just a Stress Test
10 Jul 2018 [GRTV] Index funds 'saving millions in fees'
10 Jul 2018 [GRTV] The case for index funds
09 Jul 2018 [GRTV] The case for index funds
09 Jul 2018 Potential payday for purchasers of Tower book
09 Jul 2018 Another DIMS licence granted
09 Jul 2018 [GRTV] Meet Financial Advice NZ CEO Katrina Shanks
09 Jul 2018 TSB reveals new CEO
09 Jul 2018 Inner Auckland rising star
09 Jul 2018 Loan Market reveals settlement numbers
09 Jul 2018 Did the Australian Royal Commission change everything? Or had everything changed already?
09 Jul 2018 Avoid the one bank trap
09 Jul 2018 Financial Advice NZ's next challenge: Everyone else
06 Jul 2018 Loan Market numbers revealed; New Jobs section now live; AIA finally gets hold of Sovereign
06 Jul 2018 Loan Market settles record amount
06 Jul 2018 New alliance to up property manager standards
06 Jul 2018 Auld takes advice role
06 Jul 2018 Fiducian: Outsource manager selection, improve service for clients
05 Jul 2018 ASB predicts “mild” OCR increase
05 Jul 2018 Unregistered insurance adviser avoids prison
05 Jul 2018 The latest on Kiwibuild
05 Jul 2018 New advice rules to consider trail commissions
05 Jul 2018 New chair for Financial Advice NZ certification body
04 Jul 2018 Kiwibuild eligibility criteria revealed
04 Jul 2018 Mortgage Express targets China with Auckland hire
04 Jul 2018 SuperCity market down but not out
04 Jul 2018 TSB appoints new chief executive
04 Jul 2018 Tax working group agrees property fairly taxed
04 Jul 2018 Winter chill settles on market
04 Jul 2018 Tax Working Group agree property fairly taxed
04 Jul 2018 Winter chill settles on market
04 Jul 2018 Sector exclusions lazy CIO says
03 Jul 2018 Cigna rebrands to target the young
03 Jul 2018 Call for even greater commission disclosure; New role for Bailey
03 Jul 2018 New PIGS, the CANNS or SNACZ?
03 Jul 2018 Auckland listings plummet
02 Jul 2018 AIA completes Sovereign deal
02 Jul 2018 Disclose “incentives” and “perks”: Southern Cross CEO
02 Jul 2018 Scot Bailey moves to new role at Westpac
02 Jul 2018 Watch Financial Advice NZ CEO; Name the big issues for mortgage advice
02 Jul 2018 Is vaping a new risk for landlords?
02 Jul 2018 Financial Advice NZ launches
02 Jul 2018 More rate cuts; Are Special rates misleading?
02 Jul 2018 The employer’s conundrum
02 Jul 2018 Needs analysis and your advice process
02 Jul 2018 [GRTV] Meet Financial Advice NZ CEO Katrina Shanks
02 Jul 2018 Fine balance for new code
02 Jul 2018 Law changes offer greater KiwiSaver flexibility
02 Jul 2018 Commission disclosure no big deal for good advisers
June 2018
29 Jun 2018 Milford appoints distribution head
29 Jun 2018 Auckland consents reach 15 year high
29 Jun 2018 Interest rates not likely to move for a long time
29 Jun 2018 Westpac makes major commission changes
29 Jun 2018 AML break for RFAs
28 Jun 2018 Mercer gets RI tick
28 Jun 2018 Cigna cuts ties with LifeDirect
28 Jun 2018 OCR words open door for cut
28 Jun 2018 Fewer direct retail investors in NZX
28 Jun 2018 Today's OCR statement
28 Jun 2018 RBNZ leaves OCR alone; Here's why
28 Jun 2018 Mortgage lending hits two year high
28 Jun 2018 FMA: Gloves are off on AML
27 Jun 2018 Nikko appoints portfolio manager
27 Jun 2018 Hobson Wealth starts buying and selling
27 Jun 2018 Short term rental industry thriving
27 Jun 2018 Co-Op Bank moves
27 Jun 2018 FSCL warns: Roboadvice creates non-disclosure risk
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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