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May 2023
24 May 2023 Cashflow Property Bootcamp 2023
24 May 2023 OCR could be on hold from now on
24 May 2023 BREAKING: RBNZ raises OCR by just 25 bps
24 May 2023 OCR Announcement: What the Reserve Bank said
24 May 2023 World of pain coming and landlords give up
24 May 2023 Open letter to Reserve Bank not to raise the OCR
24 May 2023 Retail on the tipping point
23 May 2023 Stock investors wait on monetary policy decisions
23 May 2023 RBNZ survey shows households continue to feel glum
23 May 2023 FMA files criminal charges over alleged fake FAP licence
23 May 2023 [OPINION] No-cause terminations not the answer
23 May 2023 Households outlook glum but slightly less so
23 May 2023 New course to improve complaint resolution
23 May 2023 Public Trust adds new portfolio manager
23 May 2023 ASIC touts greenwashing tally, FMA responds
23 May 2023 Fish hooks in Insurance contract law review
22 May 2023 Investors worry about interest rates – NZX50 droops
22 May 2023 Navigating the tough housing market: Opportunities and responsibilities for financial advisers
22 May 2023 Jail for not passing on tax deductions
22 May 2023 AIA appoints new head of ASB Partnership
22 May 2023 The questions landlords rarely ask
22 May 2023 Wealth, the OCR and migration
22 May 2023 Aussie giant comes to shake up ETF market
19 May 2023 Ryman helps market to highest close in three months
19 May 2023 Avanti Finance gets chief risk officer
19 May 2023 Borrowers shying away from too much debt
19 May 2023 Hitting the Ceiling
19 May 2023 Partners Life in renewed push of Evince online advice tool
18 May 2023 Sharemarket droops after budget revealed
18 May 2023 OCR to stay higher for longer and falling house price deepen - Treasury
18 May 2023 Budget boost addresses gender imbalance on KiwiSaver
18 May 2023 No lolly scramble for landlords
18 May 2023 Voting, engagement get breakdown in Harbour sustainability report
18 May 2023 Another bank joins OCR fray
18 May 2023 Real demand out there for non-bank business lending
18 May 2023 Growing demand for non-bank business lending
18 May 2023 Reminder to check property tax status
18 May 2023 Catch 22 – Inflation vs. Earnings
17 May 2023 Retirement village stocks show signs of life
17 May 2023 Investors buying power plunges
16 May 2023 NZ sharemarket worried by inflation and rising interest rates
16 May 2023 Westpac economists forecasting peak official cash rate hit 6%
16 May 2023 Two face Serious Fraud Office charges over alleged Ponzi scheme
16 May 2023 Eye of the storm
16 May 2023 New Regime, New Thinking
16 May 2023 National Capital serves first KiwiSaver rating report
15 May 2023 Cautious start to NZ sharemarket week, Synlait and A2 tumble again
15 May 2023 Talk to a mortgage adviser : advice for stressed homeowners
15 May 2023 Canstar tells stressed homeowners to talk to a mortgage adviser
15 May 2023 The end of the housing cycle
15 May 2023 T Rowe Price impact fund favours engagement over exclusion
13 May 2023 Your digital copy of TMM: How useful is ChatGPT for advisers?
12 May 2023 NZ sharemarket closes week with near 0.5% gain
12 May 2023 T Rowe Price impact fund favours engagement over exclusion
12 May 2023 ComCom study mulled as trust in banks wanes
12 May 2023 First home buyer sales slump but market share high
12 May 2023 Morningstar MD heading off
11 May 2023 NZ sharemarket see-saws with near 1% fall
11 May 2023 What mortgage advisers need to do in a changed mortgage world
11 May 2023 Advising clients in a changed mortgage world
11 May 2023 DWTS winner becomes AIA Vitality Coach
11 May 2023 Market keeps getting worse as sales collapse
10 May 2023 NZ sharemarket gains nearly 1%, Pushpay bids farewell to NZX
10 May 2023 InvestNow adds another manager to its KiwiSaver scheme
10 May 2023 FMA censures advice firm; Tony Alexander's latest housing market update
10 May 2023 House buyers slow on reading market changes
10 May 2023 Aurora pinged for misleading clients
10 May 2023 A good quarter for KiwiSaver
10 May 2023 Kiwi investment in companies destroying tropical rainforests increases
09 May 2023 Stormy weather dampens uncertain NZ sharemarket
09 May 2023 Westpac in catch-up mode
09 May 2023 More than half Westpac's business is from advisers
09 May 2023 Financial advice with a side of solar
09 May 2023 Working out how long you will live
08 May 2023 Tower earnings downgrade causes sharemarket stir
08 May 2023 Westpac fattens margins as mortgage book grows
08 May 2023 DTIs will make life harder for advisers
08 May 2023 How DTIs will affect mortgage advisers
05 May 2023 NZ sharemarket finishes week down more than 0.5%
05 May 2023 [GRTV] AIA discusses the evolution of change in the industry
05 May 2023 Valuation methods are in the eye of the beholder
05 May 2023 ANZ admits latest profit is big, but defends it
05 May 2023 ANZ posts $1 billion plus profit
05 May 2023 When it comes to equities, there is no hiding from the voting machine
04 May 2023 NZ market bounces back from morning low
04 May 2023 BNZ slowly lifts mortgage broker business
04 May 2023 Where in the Code is this?
04 May 2023 RBNZ gives its take on house prices
04 May 2023 Don’t expect any Government handout for mortgage repayment stress
04 May 2023 How DTIs will affect investors
04 May 2023 Sharesies KiwiSaver to include stocks in a self-select option
03 May 2023 US banking and NZ inflation worries causes sharemarket slump
03 May 2023 Have banks reintroduced sales targets?
03 May 2023 Reports of sales targets prompt FMA letter to banks
03 May 2023 NZ Super Fund CEO announces retirement
03 May 2023 Auckland sales at 22 years low
03 May 2023 NZX wrap platform looking to add four more firms
03 May 2023 Home loan arrears rising
03 May 2023 Insurance advisers should expect above trends claims increases
02 May 2023 NZ's sharemarket up while Australia's takes a dive
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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