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May 2017
04 May 2017 FMT ticks over $500m in investments
04 May 2017 Combating Auckland's housing crisis
04 May 2017 Still opportunities in 'old' bull market
03 May 2017 Mortgage advisers write a third of ANZ's loans
03 May 2017 PIE Funds reopens another fund
03 May 2017 China's Dominant Deficits
03 May 2017 FSC gets strategy 'reset'
03 May 2017 Jennings working on churn solution
03 May 2017 House price growth slows, led by super city
03 May 2017 Warning all landlords - compliance non-negotiable
02 May 2017 New head of ASB Securities
02 May 2017 ANZ half-year profit jumps
02 May 2017 Adviser diversity important: Stanhope
02 May 2017 Here's how to get set for robo
02 May 2017 Auckland in 'wait and see' mode
01 May 2017 Equities boost KiwiSaver returns in March quarter
01 May 2017 Super Fund gets top rating
01 May 2017 Cooperative Bank appoints new CEO
01 May 2017 The Co-operative Bank appoints new CEO
01 May 2017 Bank staff: Target pressure not in customer best interests
01 May 2017 Hamilton on the move
April 2017
28 Apr 2017 Moving into new builds
28 Apr 2017 Getting to Know: Norman Stacey
28 Apr 2017 ASB lenders reduce rates
28 Apr 2017 Advisers 'must be represented in working group'
28 Apr 2017 Trend now positive for consents
27 Apr 2017 Landlords, get talking to your tenants
27 Apr 2017 FMT grows investment book strongly to fund loans
27 Apr 2017 Start-up drops out of fintech accelerator programme
27 Apr 2017 Thursday news in brief
27 Apr 2017 Regional rents heading up
26 Apr 2017 Bascand takes financial stability
26 Apr 2017 Clients can't stomach risk: Ndege
26 Apr 2017 Migration hits another record as Kiwis stay put
24 Apr 2017 Adams to take the lead on housing
24 Apr 2017 How to raise the rent by 10%
24 Apr 2017 Affordability measure problems
24 Apr 2017 The view from the other side of the world
24 Apr 2017 Local flavour makes for bank winners
24 Apr 2017 First cull of working group applicants
23 Apr 2017 Aussie banks told to scrap commission payments
23 Apr 2017 Warminger, FMA appeal
21 Apr 2017 Super Fund writes off turbine investment
21 Apr 2017 Getting to Know: David Boyle
21 Apr 2017 Getting to Know: Naomi Ballantyne
21 Apr 2017 Smartshares says low-cost offer makes sense for 'client first' advisers
20 Apr 2017 Making a difference for housing supply
20 Apr 2017 Ballantyne: Advice businesses should be more businesslike
20 Apr 2017 Socially responsible investing (Part 3): returns, fees and investment options
20 Apr 2017 Biggest fund managers struggle to deliver returns: Researcher
20 Apr 2017 Harbour joins direct platform
20 Apr 2017 Thursday news in brief
19 Apr 2017 More than half of Kiwis saving for retirement
19 Apr 2017 Lack of data hinders good debate on disclosure rules
19 Apr 2017 NZ DTIs push from RBA
19 Apr 2017 Sovereign exec takes over running F&P Finance
19 Apr 2017 Adviser numbers might halve
19 Apr 2017 Auckland’s fastest rising suburbs
18 Apr 2017 High density zones promising for investors
18 Apr 2017 RESIMAC cuts rates
18 Apr 2017 NZX joins United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchange
18 Apr 2017 The key ingredient for success
18 Apr 2017 Last attempt to change exemptions
18 Apr 2017 Insurers need more capital: Wilson
17 Apr 2017 Studies in succession planning
17 Apr 2017 Obituary - Greg Jones
17 Apr 2017 Getting started on investment property
14 Apr 2017 Top five tips to protect against meth contamination
13 Apr 2017 Prices, sales up – driven by high end sales
13 Apr 2017 FMA appoints enforcement head
13 Apr 2017 Mortgage advisers miss an opportunity
13 Apr 2017 FSCL COnf promo
13 Apr 2017 Lower prices mean budget squeeze
13 Apr 2017 Reigns handed over at Westpac – again
13 Apr 2017 Getting to Know: Rod Severn
13 Apr 2017 Thursday news in brief
13 Apr 2017 Platforms vie for adviser FUM
12 Apr 2017 Build more bloody houses - Little
12 Apr 2017 Broker concerns referred to FMA
12 Apr 2017 Interest-only loans under the spotlight
12 Apr 2017 Call for crackdown on tax disclosure requirements
11 Apr 2017 FMA asks: How should KiwiSaver fees be calculated?
11 Apr 2017 Interest-only loans come under the spotlight
11 Apr 2017 Changing times for interest rate setting
11 Apr 2017 Don't look to new grads to boost industry
10 Apr 2017 Hunter Hall Global Value fund trading again
10 Apr 2017 Kiwibank chairman stands down
10 Apr 2017 New CEO for NZX
10 Apr 2017 Final price fixing defendants get $1.5m fine
10 Apr 2017 Rate rises not prompting action
10 Apr 2017 Stop tarring investors with speculator brush
10 Apr 2017 Unlocking the gold in your client base…
10 Apr 2017 Mortgage advisers miss an opportunity
10 Apr 2017 Major changes for Reserve Bank?
10 Apr 2017 Landlords on notice - MBIE
10 Apr 2017 Beware a 2019 recession
10 Apr 2017 NZ’s hottest suburbs: highest yield locations exposed
10 Apr 2017 Financial Advice plan to be revealed next month
10 Apr 2017 Shareholders chip in
09 Apr 2017 Accuro launches kids policy
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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