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May 2012
28 May 2012 AIA targets over-30s with price cuts
28 May 2012 All systems go for property investors
28 May 2012 ANZ's best quarter since 2007 hard work: Thompson
28 May 2012 Finsia appoints new president
28 May 2012 News Round Up: May 28
28 May 2012 Where will the next Apple will drop
28 May 2012 Blue Star's major shareholder starts debt-to-equity process
28 May 2012 First up this week is Westpac
28 May 2012 Rates round-up: May 28
28 May 2012 Are you a broker?
28 May 2012 Tax changes not likely to impact holiday house prices
28 May 2012 Which MPs are property investors?
25 May 2012 Tower’s insurance results a mixed bag
25 May 2012 ANZ has best quarter in mortgage market since 2007
25 May 2012 Tower appoints two independent directors
25 May 2012 [Weekly wrap] Apples v apples
25 May 2012 ASB cuts 6 and 18 month rates
25 May 2012 New reporting standards for all funds predicted
25 May 2012 Treasury isn't predicting a large pick up in house prices
24 May 2012 Fisher & Paykel Finance beats profit forecast with 8.9% rise
24 May 2012 KiwiSaver auto-enrolment delay disappointing
24 May 2012 Sovereign appoints new General Operations Manager
24 May 2012 MDRT Minute: Take the First Step
24 May 2012 Last waltz for the one-man-band
24 May 2012 Pausing for breath
24 May 2012 ASB Bank's mortgage book growths for first in 8 quarters
23 May 2012 BNZ's March Qtr new mortgage growth slowest in two years
23 May 2012 It's HSBC, BNZ and Co-op bank's turn
23 May 2012 Minister tells industry FMA fees will be comfortable
22 May 2012 Churn is different to replacement: Partners says
22 May 2012 Further evidence OCR won't rise soon as inflation expectations fall
22 May 2012 Further evidence OCR won't rise soon as inflation expectations fall
22 May 2012 BNZ to redeem $350m of bonds early, offer other investments
22 May 2012 Tyndall hooks up with Goldman Sachs
22 May 2012 More specials
22 May 2012 Low interest rates help term deposits take a tumble
22 May 2012 Love affair with property rekindled
21 May 2012 Auckland house price rise gap narrows on rest of country
21 May 2012 Fisher confirms departure of international managers
21 May 2012 NZF Group: receivers won't let it pay interest on capital notes
21 May 2012 News Round Up: May 21
21 May 2012 Advisers losing favour with KiwiSaver investors
21 May 2012 Rates round-up: May 21
21 May 2012 More home loan rate cuts to come
21 May 2012 Winter the time to list
20 May 2012 ANZ National Bank go lower
18 May 2012 TNP sales school sees 91% industry ‘stickability’
18 May 2012 tnp sales school sees 91% industry ‘stickability’
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18 May 2012 Rich rewards for borrowers
18 May 2012 Roest jailed for six and a half years
18 May 2012 New funds firm established
18 May 2012 Rates battle moves to new field
18 May 2012 Big fish plans to swallow little fish
17 May 2012 [Weekly wrap] Looking for consolidation
17 May 2012 Kiwibank matches most of the market
17 May 2012 Asteron increases commission
17 May 2012 Why floating rates remain unmoved
17 May 2012 New life insurance business dropped in March Qtr
17 May 2012 Partners Life gains market share for 4th successive quarter
16 May 2012 Why aren't the banks cutting their floating mortgage rates?
16 May 2012 Income investment turned upside down
16 May 2012 Smaller players get in on the action
16 May 2012 Forget about us property investors tell Govt
16 May 2012 Auckland rent premiums march ahead in April
15 May 2012 Sovereign appoints two new board members
15 May 2012 OPI's receivers struggling to collect on parent's guarantee
15 May 2012 The emerging v submerging economies
15 May 2012 More banks slash home loan rates
15 May 2012 House price hopes on the up, spreading from Auckland and Christchurch
14 May 2012 ASB joins rate cutters
14 May 2012 Why are you so bad at recruiting?
14 May 2012 News Round Up: May 14
14 May 2012 Rates round-up: May 14
14 May 2012 When it rains it pours
13 May 2012 BNZ tickles interest in fixed rates
11 May 2012 [Weekly wrap] Diminishing prospects
11 May 2012 ANZ National sharpens rate for Chch borrowers
11 May 2012 End this ridiculous war on selling
11 May 2012 Health insurance shortfall a bigger issue than retirement savings
11 May 2012 Another research option for advisers
11 May 2012 BNZ says it's winning
11 May 2012 IFA slams ‘nanny state’ attitude to advisers
11 May 2012 No ‘boom' but investor activity on the up, survey reveals
10 May 2012 Don't tinker with super: AMP
10 May 2012 Property prices continue steady rise in April, says QV
10 May 2012 BNZ says it's winning market share in deposits and mortgages
10 May 2012 Advisers snared in door-to-door sales crackdown
10 May 2012 Lenders are waking up
10 May 2012 Prices and sales slip in April
10 May 2012 REINZ April 2012 regional review
09 May 2012 ANZ slashes its one-year fixed mortgage rate to 5.25%
09 May 2012 KiwiSaver providers wary of more regulations
09 May 2012 ISO Scheme Case Studies
09 May 2012 Reserve Bank guesses at reasons for dramatic slowdown of credit growth
09 May 2012 Beware talk of the ‘paradigm shift’
09 May 2012 We have rate cuts
09 May 2012 No house price bubble on horizon, says Reserve Bank
08 May 2012 SBS cuts longer term home loan rates
08 May 2012 Riley's new home
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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