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February 2006
09 Feb 2006 New Zealanders too relaxed about retirement
09 Feb 2006 Modifications to tax proposals incur scepticism
09 Feb 2006 Auckland market falling
08 Feb 2006 Tax reform is like rust - it never sleeps.
08 Feb 2006 Diplock keeps chair at Securities Commission
08 Feb 2006 New client relationship manager
08 Feb 2006 Commission looking to review super
08 Feb 2006 Attractive rates name of the game
08 Feb 2006 Commission looking to review super
07 Feb 2006 ING February roadshow
07 Feb 2006 Finance company news briefs
07 Feb 2006 Housing sentiment tempering but still strong
06 Feb 2006 News Round Up
06 Feb 2006 The latest details on the FPIA conference
03 Feb 2006 Turner Report breakfast seminar
03 Feb 2006 Weekly Wrap: Money coming out of New Zealand share funds
03 Feb 2006 Managed funds outflows easing
02 Feb 2006 Market review: So far so good – but will it continue?
02 Feb 2006 BT Roadshow: What lies ahead
02 Feb 2006 Plan NZ excited about growth potential
02 Feb 2006 NZ economy to keep slowing: Caton
01 Feb 2006 Spotlight on salary sacrifice for tax purposes
01 Feb 2006 AXA Quickstart roadshow
01 Feb 2006 BT Roadshow: What lies ahead
01 Feb 2006 Hardman leaves the Broadlands
01 Feb 2006 Another new NZ share fund born
January 2006
31 Jan 2006 Sharetrading on TradeMe daft idea
31 Jan 2006 AXA Quickstart roadshow
31 Jan 2006 BT Roadshow: What lies ahead
31 Jan 2006 Lenders continue to ease rates
31 Jan 2006 Rental housing changes would drive landlords away
30 Jan 2006 News Round Up
27 Jan 2006 AXA Quickstart roadshow
27 Jan 2006 Market timing gets thumbs down
27 Jan 2006 AXA appoints CIO
27 Jan 2006 Review expected to raise thorny issues
26 Jan 2006 OCR announcement
26 Jan 2006 AXA Quickstart roadshow
26 Jan 2006 Bollard leaves rates unchanged and rules out an easing
26 Jan 2006 OCR unchanged at 7.25%
26 Jan 2006 Tax proposals to govt next week
25 Jan 2006 Ouch...that hurts
25 Jan 2006 AXA Quickstart roadshow
25 Jan 2006 Super Fund grabs another AMP man
25 Jan 2006 An alternative to term deposits
24 Jan 2006 AXA Quickstart roadshow
24 Jan 2006 Competition and more competition
24 Jan 2006 ING closes popular Diversified Yield Fund
23 Jan 2006 Investors confident in the face of a slowdown
23 Jan 2006 News Round Up
23 Jan 2006 Weekly home loan report: Competition and more competition
23 Jan 2006 Shaky building warning
22 Jan 2006 Economists expect no change in OCR this week
22 Jan 2006 Property still tops with investors
20 Jan 2006 Weekly Wrap: Milford to manage NZ shares for Arcus
20 Jan 2006 Health Funds Association appoints new executive director
20 Jan 2006 Milford to manage NZ shares for Arcus
19 Jan 2006 ANZ to launch new fixed interest service
19 Jan 2006 Kiwisaver think-tank planned
19 Jan 2006 ANZ to launch new fixed interest service
19 Jan 2006 Pero sees growth in lo-doc market
18 Jan 2006 GE cleared to buy Pacific Retail
18 Jan 2006 January 2006
18 Jan 2006 Infrastructure bonds on their way
17 Jan 2006 Absolute Capital appoints new BDM
17 Jan 2006 Fixed home loan rates start the year falling
17 Jan 2006 Biggest year in a decade: Arkinstall
16 Jan 2006 Looking for the perfect investment - Part 2
16 Jan 2006 House prices up again in December
16 Jan 2006 News Round Up
16 Jan 2006 Auckland house prices hit record high
15 Jan 2006 House prices up again
13 Jan 2006 Morningstar buys asset allocation firm
12 Jan 2006 Solly moves to Goldman Sachs
12 Jan 2006 Salary sacrifice crackdown looming
12 Jan 2006 Salary sacrifice crackdown looming
11 Jan 2006 Managers predict softer returns in intl markets
11 Jan 2006 Online underwriting rolled out
10 Jan 2006 OM-IP funds reach significant milestone
09 Jan 2006 Weekly Wrap: Reserve Bank may regulate financial services
09 Jan 2006 General Finance aims to outdo banks
09 Jan 2006 News Round Up
07 Jan 2006 Maybe we are saving enough?
06 Jan 2006 RBNZ may regulate financial services
05 Jan 2006 Looking for the perfect investment
05 Jan 2006 Stirrat joins For Barr
05 Jan 2006 Liberty combines home loans
04 Jan 2006 Grey list to go: Cullen
04 Jan 2006 AIA tries new tack to promote insurance
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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