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April 2013
15 Apr 2013 Property firms' merger terms agreed
13 Apr 2013 Sellers' market spreading: Survey
12 Apr 2013 [Weekly Wrap] MRP process leaves a lot to be desired
12 Apr 2013 Dominion, North South Finance executive guilty
12 Apr 2013 Kiwis investing in SMEs: English
12 Apr 2013 Govt should get pinged over its MRP sales process
12 Apr 2013 IFA and IBANZ College team up
12 Apr 2013 FMA gives green light to offer document
12 Apr 2013 TNP loses staff
12 Apr 2013 Rental demand down and supply up: Trade Me
11 Apr 2013 Buoyant market tempts new brokers
11 Apr 2013 New Zealand's lack of deposit insurance unusual
11 Apr 2013 Mudford: Grayland's job done
11 Apr 2013 Tackle foreign buyers now: Alexander
11 Apr 2013 Auckland prices driving national increases: REINZ
10 Apr 2013 IFA loses its PD boss over conference switch
10 Apr 2013 One Path and Pre-disability income on Income Protection claims.
10 Apr 2013 AMP’s income protection product
10 Apr 2013 Van Eyk sale 'won't change research product'
10 Apr 2013 Investors offered property shares
09 Apr 2013 Kiwibank offers TC3 insurance
09 Apr 2013 Kiwibank ends one special starts another
09 Apr 2013 Regulation makes MRP discussion difficult: Leitch
09 Apr 2013 Auckland businesses should look to the regions: Chamber
09 Apr 2013 Price growth slowing but no let-up in sight for first-home buyers: QV
08 Apr 2013 Low OCR may not be a sure bet: RBNZ
08 Apr 2013 Kiwibank's 4.79% offer ends
08 Apr 2013 Boutique not necessarily small
08 Apr 2013 Harbour Monthly Commentary: In a more normal world?
08 Apr 2013 House prices a concern: Reserve Bank
08 Apr 2013 Auckland plan offered DIY-style
07 Apr 2013 Listings pressure stays on: Realestate.co.nz
05 Apr 2013 MRP shares may sell for up to $2.80
05 Apr 2013 Fisher settles TOWER buy
05 Apr 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Mighty River Share price revealed
05 Apr 2013 Why insurance advisers should care about the Credit SaILS report
05 Apr 2013 Advisers ask: Are qualifications worthless?
05 Apr 2013 Newland picks Pokeno for investors
04 Apr 2013 Non-bank lenders under review
04 Apr 2013 Insurer pays out $160,000 for surgery
04 Apr 2013 Tyndall Monthly Commentary: Does Cyprus Really Matter?
04 Apr 2013 Lo-doc lending for Christchurch
04 Apr 2013 Lo-doc for Christchurch
04 Apr 2013 Lo-doc for Christchurch
04 Apr 2013 No need for fewer resolution services: FSCL
04 Apr 2013 Million-dollar sales pick up
03 Apr 2013 Brook: New Zealand Electrical Utilities
03 Apr 2013 Web to unpick: Administrators
02 Apr 2013 Credit Union Insurance licensed
02 Apr 2013 TOWER sale settles
02 Apr 2013 RaboDirect appoints new BDA for Key Account Services
02 Apr 2013 Latest lending numbers
02 Apr 2013 Terry Butler dies
02 Apr 2013 TFAS advisers' role unchanged: TOWER
02 Apr 2013 Security questions raised over open homes
01 Apr 2013 Pathfinder Monthly Commentary: Don’t hedge currency exposures – part 2
March 2013
31 Mar 2013 Morgan ends his investment business involvement
29 Mar 2013 Waterfront investment opportunity “once-in-a-lifetime”
28 Mar 2013 Mortgages hit new high
28 Mar 2013 [Weekly Wrap] How much is advice worth?
28 Mar 2013 Lifetime changes
28 Mar 2013 Boutique not necessarily small
28 Mar 2013 Battle in the three-year term
28 Mar 2013 Signs point up for prices: ANZ
28 Mar 2013 Housing crisis will get worse: Alexander
28 Mar 2013 House building down
27 Mar 2013 LM seeking new loans
27 Mar 2013 The Co-operative Bank's latest changes
27 Mar 2013 RBNZ proposal may increase rates; Bank customers on the move
27 Mar 2013 Variable Annuities – An Analysis of Financial Stability
27 Mar 2013 Customers switch banks at twice normal rate
27 Mar 2013 International small firms on offer to investors
27 Mar 2013 No sign of improvement in Canterbury shortage
27 Mar 2013 Waikato lifestyle beckons for city folk
26 Mar 2013 Unpicking LM will take months: Administrators
26 Mar 2013 Shareholders open to sale: Pinnacle
26 Mar 2013 Increased capital requirements 'could make loans more expensive'
26 Mar 2013 BNZ cuts long rates: RBNZ proposal may increase rates
26 Mar 2013 Sovereign boss: Don't fear banks
26 Mar 2013 Crockers reports price, turnover increase
25 Mar 2013 KiwiSaver insufficient: FSC
25 Mar 2013 SCF receivership wraps up
25 Mar 2013 Most of Perpetual sold
25 Mar 2013 'Opportunity there, if advisers can grab it'
25 Mar 2013 'Plan action needed now'
25 Mar 2013 Rental warrants examined by minister
24 Mar 2013 LM commission questions
24 Mar 2013 Ross investors must prove investment gains were fake
24 Mar 2013 Wilder to retire
22 Mar 2013 Kiwi banks ranked in top 25
22 Mar 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Is no news good news for shareholders?
22 Mar 2013 TOWER board grilled by shareholders
22 Mar 2013 Waikato adviser joins Plus4
22 Mar 2013 Vow not ruling out NZ
22 Mar 2013 Wheeler should move rate now: Economist
22 Mar 2013 Migration turnaround likely to boost prices
21 Mar 2013 TOWER: No life sale yet
21 Mar 2013 TOWER managing director steps aside
21 Mar 2013 'Opportunities in NZ shares, emerging markets'
21 Mar 2013 Newland: Consider shared equity scheme
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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