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June 2020
29 Jun 2020 Partners Life expects advisers to opt for FAPO
29 Jun 2020 Local bourse bucks global slide on Fisher & Paykel result
29 Jun 2020 Survey reveals lending concerns
29 Jun 2020 Survey reveals lending concerns
29 Jun 2020 Apartment views
29 Jun 2020 Having your own FAP doesn’t have to break the bank
29 Jun 2020 How housing affects the market for insurance
28 Jun 2020 Active management 'not very well'
27 Jun 2020 Harbour cuts fund fees
26 Jun 2020 NZ shares rise as investors eye upbeat F&P Healthcare result
26 Jun 2020 Southern Cross supports new safe haven for at-risk pets
26 Jun 2020 Kiwibank ramps up pressure on rivals; Ways to future-proof your business
26 Jun 2020 New classified section
26 Jun 2020 COMMENT: Don’t discount migration as a demand driver
26 Jun 2020 Kiwibank ramps up pressure on rivals
26 Jun 2020 [Opinion] Ways to future proof your business
25 Jun 2020 Final disclosure regulations welcomed
25 Jun 2020 Mortgage borrowing rebounds in May
25 Jun 2020 Is default status a gravy train?
25 Jun 2020 Covid fears cast pall on sharemarket (again); Air NZ drops
25 Jun 2020 Mortgage borrowing rebounds in May
25 Jun 2020 SuperCity yields improving
25 Jun 2020 What’s going on in the rental market
25 Jun 2020 Date set for new regime
25 Jun 2020 OCR reaction: more action to push rates lower?
24 Jun 2020 Financial advice's 'golden opportunity'
24 Jun 2020 Investors chasing yield push the sharemarket higher
24 Jun 2020 QE the preferred tool for lower rates: economists
24 Jun 2020 OCR decision revealed
24 Jun 2020 S&P forecast 10% house price fall
24 Jun 2020 BNZ and Resimac cut rates; OCR decision later
24 Jun 2020 Financial Advice NZ launches Trusted Adviser
24 Jun 2020 Mid-year outlook: Recovery on the horizon
23 Jun 2020 Logical appointment at National Capital
23 Jun 2020 NZ shares fall as Ebos shareholder sells down; covid jitters remain
23 Jun 2020 Resimac cuts specialist floating rates
23 Jun 2020 Mould complaint doesn’t warrant reduced tenancy term
23 Jun 2020 All clear for AMP Life sale
23 Jun 2020 Reaction to full licensing details; Nelson Building Society rate cuts
23 Jun 2020 Mixed response to full licensing details
23 Jun 2020 NZ Funds adds adviser
22 Jun 2020 No annual returns this year
22 Jun 2020 NZ shares fall as fears of a second covid wave rise
22 Jun 2020 OCR Preview Survey: key things to watch; Kiwibank rate cut
22 Jun 2020 OCR Preview Survey: OCR set to remain on hold
22 Jun 2020 Maple-Brown Abbott adds two as ESG focus increases
21 Jun 2020 Changes at Mike Pero Mortgages
20 Jun 2020 Advisers 'firebreaker' for clients, Botica says
19 Jun 2020 NZ shares rise; index moves push Port of Tauranga to record
19 Jun 2020 Select Wealth creates new head
19 Jun 2020 Market outlook: what economists have to say
19 Jun 2020 ASB eases lending policy, cuts rates; Go Home Loans rate cuts
19 Jun 2020 Ways to sell more insurance
19 Jun 2020 Retirement Income Group hits growth milestone
18 Jun 2020 KiwiSaver data shows top performers
18 Jun 2020 Air NZ's share price brought back to earth; Heightened pandemic fears weigh on the market
18 Jun 2020 ASSET June Disclaimers
18 Jun 2020 Tenancy termination ban lifted
18 Jun 2020 Huge surge in buyer demand
18 Jun 2020 CareSaver appoints new head of client engagement
18 Jun 2020 Advisers join Mortgage Link
18 Jun 2020 QE could push mortgage rates lower; FMA reveals full licensing details
18 Jun 2020 ASB eases lending policy
17 Jun 2020 Licence classes welcomed, more clarity needed on some criteria: Shanks
17 Jun 2020 Market posts its biggest gain since March; A2 and F&P take the lead
17 Jun 2020 ACC to decarbonise it portfolio
17 Jun 2020 QE could push mortgage rates even lower: ASB
17 Jun 2020 [GRTV] Watch out for some market surprises: Gaynor
17 Jun 2020 FAP or Fiction - Five Clues
17 Jun 2020 Southland comes up trumps for investors
17 Jun 2020 FMA finally shows what full licensing looks like
17 Jun 2020 New-to-bank lending freeze
17 Jun 2020 New-to-bank lending freeze
17 Jun 2020 New-to-bank lending freeze; Allow KiwiSaver for investment properties?
17 Jun 2020 New-to-bank lending freeze
16 Jun 2020 'At some point someone needs to be allowed to lose some money'
16 Jun 2020 US Fed stimulus drives global rally; Including NZ
16 Jun 2020 COMMENT: Allow KiwiSaver for investment properties
16 Jun 2020 Positive signs in property market; Re-opening could affect OCR
16 Jun 2020 Considering the trans-Tasman bubble
16 Jun 2020 Beating expectations
16 Jun 2020 Investors offered rural exposure – without the risk
15 Jun 2020 NZ shares fall as new virus cases appear in China
15 Jun 2020 Strong comeback could affect OCR outlook
15 Jun 2020 Funeral cover dead and buried
15 Jun 2020 Market feels Covid-19 impact
15 Jun 2020 Cash backs creep up; Kiwibank cuts
15 Jun 2020 Cash backs creep up
14 Jun 2020 Newpark plots new future, tells advisers to make a choice
12 Jun 2020 NZ shares fall as Asia joins global sell-off
12 Jun 2020 Melanie Purdey
12 Jun 2020 [GRTV] Full Interview: Sam Tremethick
12 Jun 2020 [GRTV] Melanie Purdey
12 Jun 2020 [GRTV] Clear value proposition is key
12 Jun 2020 Wind up emergency tenancy provisions now - REINZ
12 Jun 2020 Trading NZPIF places
12 Jun 2020 Kiwibank slashes 1% from floating rates; Newpark seeks investment; ICBC cut;
11 Jun 2020 Cold water poured on V-shaped recovery
11 Jun 2020 BNZ to put all staff through courses
11 Jun 2020 Level one: the new normal
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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