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May 2009
29 May 2009 NZ building approvals climb 11% in April, suggesting life seeping back into market
29 May 2009 Managed futures seminar
29 May 2009 Budget 2009: AXA Budget Commentary 2009
29 May 2009 Rates seesaw stuck
28 May 2009 Budget blow for capital markets
28 May 2009 Productivity, vision take back seat as English delivers debt-control budget
28 May 2009 Suspending NZ Super Fund contributions increases burden: Mercer
28 May 2009 Budget 2009: Almost $12 million extra for financial adviser watchdog
28 May 2009 New Zealand's property market is forecast to slump further
28 May 2009 Budget 2009: NZ ends tax cuts, pension contributions as deficits soar
28 May 2009 Budget 2009: Primary Growth Partnership replaces Fast Forward Fund
28 May 2009 Budget 2009: NZ Govt bond sales to soar 55% as deficits balloon
28 May 2009 Managed futures seminar
28 May 2009 ING/ANZ make $400m final assault on CDO funds
28 May 2009 ING/ANZ make $400m final assault on CDO funds
28 May 2009 ING Life offers support people who lose jobs
28 May 2009 Budget Preview: Watching for surprises
28 May 2009 Budget delivers home insulation
27 May 2009 ANZ National increase long rates
27 May 2009 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Workplace Savings
27 May 2009 ASFONZ Education Module: Introduction to Trusteeship
27 May 2009 Tower does distribution deal with Aon
27 May 2009 27 May 2009
27 May 2009 Auto IFA authorisation premature, Commission says
26 May 2009 Managed futures seminar
26 May 2009 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Workplace Savings
26 May 2009 The National Partnership
26 May 2009 Complaints rules edge closer
26 May 2009 Rental yields better bet than capital gains: ASB
26 May 2009 ANZ gauges find demand is making property a sellers’ market
26 May 2009 Unique property up for lease
25 May 2009 Kiwibank keeps mum on four-day deposit rate bonanza
25 May 2009 Tower Insurance eyes up small business
25 May 2009 Westpac expects pause to rate cuts
25 May 2009 Managed futures seminar
25 May 2009 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Workplace Savings
25 May 2009 Rates Round Up
25 May 2009 News round-up
22 May 2009 SIFA Conference 2009
22 May 2009 No points for coming last
22 May 2009 Macquarie adds to advice team
22 May 2009 V for victory for landlords
22 May 2009 Equities still a risk but don't rule them out
22 May 2009 Indicator shows worst maybe over for housing market
22 May 2009 Immigration pick up a plus for housing market
21 May 2009 RI option for Mercer KiwiSaver customers
21 May 2009 First major KiwiSaver consolidation announced
21 May 2009 Sovereign to get new MD
21 May 2009 Gut feel ends PIS/Newpark deal
21 May 2009 Opinion: Life Brokers have a bob each way in professional associations
21 May 2009 Capital rules about to hit
21 May 2009 PAA puts publicity in perspective
20 May 2009 Life Brokers Association 2009 Conference & AGM
20 May 2009 NZ fund managers no dunces
20 May 2009 BNZ to raise $150m through share offer
20 May 2009 An update from the Securities Commission
20 May 2009 ETITO sessions on regulation and education
20 May 2009 Mortgage watch: Banks still not budging
20 May 2009 Fund managers need to improve disclosure: Morningstar
20 May 2009 Funds management comes last in survey
19 May 2009 19 May 2009
19 May 2009 Institute defends naming
18 May 2009 Clear and formal roadmap for AIG
18 May 2009 Mortgage borrowing strategy
18 May 2009 Rates Round Up
18 May 2009 News Round Up
15 May 2009 Tough and tougher
15 May 2009 RTA hitting Parliament with key changes
15 May 2009 Double digit house price rises not the norm
15 May 2009 IFA welcomes Cotton appointment, deadline back on track
15 May 2009 Affordable new homes stack up for investors
14 May 2009 Borrowers could be $1.2 billion better off
14 May 2009 Floating rates too low: Alexander
14 May 2009 Practice management: Transforming wealthy friends into clients
14 May 2009 Minister appoints commissioner - for now
14 May 2009 Water rates fire stoked again
14 May 2009 Tougher rules for non-bank sector
13 May 2009 RBNZ defends OCR, disappointed with banks' response
13 May 2009 Residential housing may have hit bottom, as sales improve
13 May 2009 ASFONZ Education Module: Best Practice Governance
13 May 2009 IFA applies shame factor
12 May 2009 BIG gets bigger
12 May 2009 Residential market shows signs of stabilising: REINZ
12 May 2009 Regional highlights: REINZ
12 May 2009 Read joins Newpark
12 May 2009 Commission recommends compliance by the book
12 May 2009 Confidence returning to residental housing market: Survey
11 May 2009 Super-sized commercial syndicate hits Auckland
11 May 2009 First NZ Capital taps demand for yield with new PIE fund
11 May 2009 Property values show hint of stabilisation: QV
11 May 2009 News round-up
10 May 2009 Regional snapshot: QV
08 May 2009 Property market health check
08 May 2009 The most contentious regulation issue
08 May 2009 Banks avoid training costs under new rules, says PAA
07 May 2009 ASFONZ / Women In Super Industry Breakfast
07 May 2009 PAA, LBA dismiss PI concerns
06 May 2009 ASFONZ / Women In Super Industry Breakfast
06 May 2009 Market Review: May 2009 Commentary
06 May 2009 Market Review: May 2009 London Commentary
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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