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April 2008
29 Apr 2008 Equity release mortgages slow
29 Apr 2008 'Slight' oversupply of houses will help keep prices down
28 Apr 2008 Geneva investors say yes
28 Apr 2008 News Round Up
27 Apr 2008 First finance company PIE fund
24 Apr 2008 MDRT Roadshow 2008
24 Apr 2008 Weekly Wrap: Spicing it up
24 Apr 2008 OCR announcement
24 Apr 2008 Market perceives that Bollard softens the rhetoric
24 Apr 2008 The official cash rate (OCR) unchanged at 8.25%
24 Apr 2008 AXA reports strong group risk sales
24 Apr 2008 KPMG: Longer term deposits the way to go
24 Apr 2008 Opinion: Asteron on the true nature of insurance
24 Apr 2008 Market perceives that Bollard softens the rhetoric
23 Apr 2008 MDRT Roadshow 2008
23 Apr 2008 Should you sell?
23 Apr 2008 Adviser amendments to rebuild investor confidence, Dalziel says
23 Apr 2008 Adviser amendments to rebuild investor confidence, Dalziel says
23 Apr 2008 PINs change
23 Apr 2008 Bluestone offer for Geneva frustrated
23 Apr 2008 Investors lose confidence in rental property
22 Apr 2008 Who wants to be on IFA board?
22 Apr 2008 Asteron boosting trauma
22 Apr 2008 WINZ of change for AMP listed fund
21 Apr 2008 Parent says Tasman and United doing OK
21 Apr 2008 Receivership better ending for Kiwi Finance: Trustee
21 Apr 2008 Strategic Investment & Asset Allocation Summit
21 Apr 2008 Hanover's rating reconfirmed
21 Apr 2008 No rate relief likely this week
21 Apr 2008 News Round Up
19 Apr 2008 No rate relief likely this week
18 Apr 2008 Weekly Wrap: Unseemly infighting all for nought
18 Apr 2008 Sparks fly between advisers
18 Apr 2008 NZ Super appoints GM Private Mkts
18 Apr 2008 Cynotech buys up finance company loan books
18 Apr 2008 Guardian Trust appoints Charities manager
17 Apr 2008 APBs out, adviser definition narrows: committee report
17 Apr 2008 APBs out, adviser definition narrows: committee report
17 Apr 2008 They're off again
17 Apr 2008 Home loan report: They're off again
17 Apr 2008 Kiwis get serious about savings
17 Apr 2008 CD: Mentored by the Property Masters
16 Apr 2008 Kiwis get serious about retirement savings
16 Apr 2008 Retirement Policy and Research Centre Symposium
16 Apr 2008 Accountants lead with free advice offer
16 Apr 2008 Guardian Trust appoints national manager – philanthropy
16 Apr 2008 Free advice for Blue Chip investors
15 Apr 2008 Hanover's BDM on his bike
15 Apr 2008 Sentinel forced to shuffle
15 Apr 2008 Students next door bad for your wealth
15 Apr 2008 KiwiSaver numbers surge
15 Apr 2008 LM rubbishes liquidity crisis claims
14 Apr 2008 ASSET - NZ's boutique renaissance
14 Apr 2008 Geneva unveils its new survival plan
14 Apr 2008 Geneva unveils its new survival plan
14 Apr 2008 Average property price will fall to $300,000: economist
14 Apr 2008 Tauranga stays on top
11 Apr 2008 What's the deal with packaged property?
11 Apr 2008 Black March for bottom end of property market
11 Apr 2008 REINZ Residential Highlights - March 2008
11 Apr 2008 Allied Nationwide appoints independent directors
11 Apr 2008 South Canterbury Finance expanding
11 Apr 2008 TOWER’s Wahine storm
11 Apr 2008 Liontamer expands trans-Tasman team
11 Apr 2008 Dalziel lines up Blue Chip advisers
10 Apr 2008 Perpetual pulls pin on Lombard
10 Apr 2008 Perpetual pulls pin on Lombard
10 Apr 2008 Magellan Adviser Briefing
10 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
10 Apr 2008 Saved by the US: Magellan
10 Apr 2008 Blue Chip goes into liquidation
09 Apr 2008 Home loan report: Relative calm restored for now
09 Apr 2008 Home loan report: Relative calm restored for now
09 Apr 2008 The Investment Store grows with appointment of new bdm
09 Apr 2008 Tax department rules on deducting accountancy fees
09 Apr 2008 Magellan Adviser Briefing
09 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
09 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
09 Apr 2008 Dudson sells business to Stobo firm
09 Apr 2008 NZMFG new player in the game
08 Apr 2008 Magellan Adviser Briefing
08 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
08 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
08 Apr 2008 Tower winds up $242m mortgage fund
08 Apr 2008 Bargain hunters start to appear: Survey
07 Apr 2008 Top funds management lawyer moves to DLA Philips Fox
07 Apr 2008 Market Review: April 2008 commentary
07 Apr 2008 Tower winds up $242m mortgage fund
07 Apr 2008 Regional review: Our best-kept secret
07 Apr 2008 News Round Up
07 Apr 2008 Learning from Lombard
07 Apr 2008 Bluestone hardens lending in NZ
05 Apr 2008 Auckland house prices bad sign
04 Apr 2008 Grim news in Auckland property market
04 Apr 2008 Nathans investors still in the dark
04 Apr 2008 First Five Star payment not so starry
04 Apr 2008 Money at Work
04 Apr 2008 The housing market is over valued - so what?
04 Apr 2008 Triplejump appoints training and development manager
04 Apr 2008 Russell hedge fund closure hits local instos
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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