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April 2024
16 Apr 2024 More pain in store for mortgage holders
16 Apr 2024 Best and worst KiwiSavers according to Consumer
16 Apr 2024 Digital document ~~security~~ insecurity
16 Apr 2024 Janus Henderson joins PIE menu
15 Apr 2024 Middle East conflict casts a shadow across markets
15 Apr 2024 Client sought $200,000 saying adviser mislead him about insurance cover
15 Apr 2024 Financial complaints rise
15 Apr 2024 A Statement of Advice may not be what you think it is
15 Apr 2024 Financial complaints rise as cost-of-living pressures continue
15 Apr 2024 Successful claims changed lives – even for people who weren’t clients
14 Apr 2024 Smartshares trials NZXWT with large client
13 Apr 2024 Analysing AI’s Impact on Financial Advice, Part 3
12 Apr 2024 NZ market flat, Tower rises
12 Apr 2024 Mortgage advisers want ComCom to apologise; Lifetime Home Master Class Christchurch
12 Apr 2024 Mortgage advisers aim to “educate” ComCom and want it to apologise
12 Apr 2024 Still in charge
11 Apr 2024 NZ sharemarket hit by global inflation fears
11 Apr 2024 NZ sharemarket hit by global inflation fears
11 Apr 2024 Mortgage Lab buys new trail book; Economists remain divided on when the first rate cut will come
11 Apr 2024 Mortgage Lab buys new trail book
11 Apr 2024 Asteron Life unveils product enhancements
11 Apr 2024 [Opinion] Comedy of errors at the RBNZ
11 Apr 2024 It'll be different this time; Asteron boss on Resolution deal
11 Apr 2024 Economists remain divided on how early the first rate cut will come
10 Apr 2024 NZ sharemarket rises for the first time this month
10 Apr 2024 BREAKING: OCR remains unchanged
10 Apr 2024 BREAKING: OCR 5.50% - Official Cash Rate remains unchanged
10 Apr 2024 [GRTV] Peer support helps with compliance stress
10 Apr 2024 Time for rate cuts, Squirrel boss reckons
10 Apr 2024 Squirrel CEO calls on the Reserve Bank to start cut OCR
10 Apr 2024 Confidence sugar hit fizzles – mixed messages for RBNZ
09 Apr 2024 NZ sharemarket down 0.5% ... again
09 Apr 2024 Sharesies has biggest trading yet
09 Apr 2024 FNZ appoints execs in NZ
09 Apr 2024 Active versus Passive Investment Management
09 Apr 2024 KiwiSaver and Insurance: Assessing lifetime financial needs
08 Apr 2024 NZ sharemarket drops for seventh time in eight days
08 Apr 2024 Fair outcomes could be another CCCFA fiasco
08 Apr 2024 Small businesses warned about loans; ASB Fixed home loan rate changes
08 Apr 2024 Small businesses warned about loans
08 Apr 2024 [Opinion] Will RBNZ demand proof from Resolution on support for Asteron Life customers?
05 Apr 2024 NZ sharemarket down 0.77% for the week
05 Apr 2024 Art of Investing: A journey from shadows to spotlight
05 Apr 2024 Who will be the first?
05 Apr 2024 Rate cuts – who will be the first?
05 Apr 2024 nib: government has no appetite for tax breaks for health ins premiums
05 Apr 2024 Version review of NZCFS Level 5 a structural tweak, skill standards still to come
04 Apr 2024 NZ sharemarket has mixed trading day, Synlait tumbles further
04 Apr 2024 Improvement in arrears but trough still to come; Lifetime Home Masterclass 11 April (Wellington)
04 Apr 2024 Platinum shares plunge on FUM losses and restructuring
04 Apr 2024 Octagon targets FAPs via NZX Wealth platform
04 Apr 2024 Asteron Life sold
04 Apr 2024 Improvement in arrears but trough still to come
04 Apr 2024 FMA wants feedback on green bonds
04 Apr 2024 Two adviser groups tie the knot
03 Apr 2024 NZ sharemarket down 0.5%
03 Apr 2024 Largest US pension fund snares NZ Super Fund CIO
03 Apr 2024 Impaired loans mounting; Westpac lowers home loan rates
03 Apr 2024 Impaired loans mounting
03 Apr 2024 Gender pay gap and not contribution rates disadvantage women on KiwiSaver
02 Apr 2024 NZ sharemarket down, Synlait reaches new all-time low
02 Apr 2024 Clawbacks could sneak onto ComCom agenda; Lifetime Home Masterclass 10 Apr
02 Apr 2024 Clawbacks could sneak onto ComCom agenda
02 Apr 2024 ASIC wins greenwashing case against Vanguard
02 Apr 2024 Bad news for NZ is good news for bond investors: Nikko
01 Apr 2024 [GRTV] FANZ stands on its legacy in face of competition in the mortgage space
March 2024
29 Mar 2024 Pain for gain
29 Mar 2024 Survive ‘til 25
29 Mar 2024 Is the illusion of knowledge holding your business back?
29 Mar 2024 Analysing AI’s Impact on Financial Advice, Part 2
28 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket celebrates a near 1% Easter rise
28 Mar 2024 Digital Signatures and Fraud
28 Mar 2024 Encouraging signs of growth
28 Mar 2024 Mortgage figures show encouraging signs of growth
28 Mar 2024 US decisions likely to decide between more inflation or deflation
27 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket stuck in negative territory ahead of Easter weekend
27 Mar 2024 Australian is new CEO of Guardians of NZ Superannuation
27 Mar 2024 FAMNZ members can join in April
27 Mar 2024 Bayly will talk to coalition partners before any change to KiwiSaver
27 Mar 2024 New winner for Fund Manager of the Year
27 Mar 2024 Potential FAMNZ members in waiting game
26 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket ends five day bull run
26 Mar 2024 Southern Cross latest insurer to get FMA warning
26 Mar 2024 Mortage advisers get the ear of Commerce Commission
26 Mar 2024 The AI revolution in financial advice: A reality check
26 Mar 2024 Lindsay sells Strategy Reserach to Trail after cancer experience
26 Mar 2024 NZ scopes a green taxonomy to provide a common language on sustainable finance
26 Mar 2024 Simplicity takes stake in tax tech company
26 Mar 2024 Mortage advisers get the ear of Com Com
25 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket closes with decent rise
25 Mar 2024 Out of touch with the reality of mortgage advice
25 Mar 2024 Tax deducibility for health insurance premiums?
25 Mar 2024 The cheap treat that’s getting more expensive
25 Mar 2024 ComCom accused of being out of touch with the reality of mortgage advice
25 Mar 2024 [GRTV] Bayly wants a twin peaks model for financial regulation
24 Mar 2024 New director and executive changes at Perpetual Guardian
23 Mar 2024 One dealer group speaks up
23 Mar 2024 Advisers have consumers best interest: Finsure
22 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket gets wake-up prod thanks to Fisher & Paykel
22 Mar 2024 Old hand in new role at Chubb
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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