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June 2018
27 Jun 2018 AML laws 'waste of time, money'
26 Jun 2018 [Obituary] Cary Veenhof: The BDM’s BDM
26 Jun 2018 Trustees Executors adds a new director and still searches for a chairman
26 Jun 2018 BNZ cuts; Bank staff still pressured to sell products
26 Jun 2018 Bank targets 'put customer interests at risk'
25 Jun 2018 Co-op shares $2.1m with customers
25 Jun 2018 Adviser limits fees
25 Jun 2018 Going digital for adviser businesses
25 Jun 2018 Energy city powering on
25 Jun 2018 OCR Preview: The latest outlook for interest rates
25 Jun 2018 New portfolio compliance tool comes to market
25 Jun 2018 OCR to stay on hold
25 Jun 2018 The Right Benchmark is the Bedrock of Strong Active Management
22 Jun 2018 Banks get visit from regulators
22 Jun 2018 Westpac does some matching cuts
22 Jun 2018 Four year high in migrant departures
22 Jun 2018 Foreign buyer ban hangover pending
22 Jun 2018 Former Lifetime boss acquires advice firm of the same name
22 Jun 2018 Advisers set clients on right investment path
22 Jun 2018 Construction slump slows GDP
21 Jun 2018 UDC posts profit
21 Jun 2018 Kiwis back shared equity schemes
21 Jun 2018 Interest Rate Cycles: Endings and Beginnings
21 Jun 2018 AMP appoints new chairman
21 Jun 2018 ANZ matches leader
21 Jun 2018 What makes an adviser independent, anyway?
20 Jun 2018 The correct facts about tax and rental properties
20 Jun 2018 The correct facts about tax and rental properties
20 Jun 2018 Correct facts on tax & rental properties - NZPIF
20 Jun 2018 What New Zealanders want from KiwiSaver may surprise you
20 Jun 2018 Queenstown tops NZ rent ranks
20 Jun 2018 Rating agency reviews OnePath Life
20 Jun 2018 Salt appoints chief operating officer.
19 Jun 2018 NZ Super appoints new CEO
19 Jun 2018 Tax changes would slash house prices
19 Jun 2018 Tax changes would slash house prices
19 Jun 2018 Fees 'still too high'
19 Jun 2018 Boyle moves back to private sphere
18 Jun 2018 Lender cuts rates; Guilty verdict over $54mill mortgage fraud
18 Jun 2018 P2P lender cuts rates
18 Jun 2018 Demand cools in Auckland
18 Jun 2018 To have and to hold
18 Jun 2018 It's time for RFAs to make some noise
18 Jun 2018 National: Reserve Bank role needs scrutiny
18 Jun 2018 'Drop mandatory insurer strength ratings'
18 Jun 2018 Associations' last days
15 Jun 2018 Finance company survivor profits
15 Jun 2018 Guilty verdict for mortgage fraud trio
15 Jun 2018 Adviser hits out at commission disclosure proposals
15 Jun 2018 Broader disclosure needed for VIOs: SiFA
15 Jun 2018 Adviser hits out at commission disclosure proposals
14 Jun 2018 Asteron appoints Frecklington replacement
14 Jun 2018 ASB cuts and moves up the table; Kepa has new CEO
14 Jun 2018 Auckland market fall continues
14 Jun 2018 Kepa appoints chief executive
14 Jun 2018 McLachlan: Pie move 'mildly interesting'
13 Jun 2018 Housing affordability down in major cities
13 Jun 2018 Developers keen on KiwiBuild tender
13 Jun 2018 Adviser groups raise code of conduct concerns
13 Jun 2018 KiwiSaver must change, providers say
13 Jun 2018 Advisers welcome more detailed projections
12 Jun 2018 Advisers inundate CWG with submissions
12 Jun 2018 Auckland supply drive at risk
12 Jun 2018 Working group considers 161 submissions
12 Jun 2018 Solving Japan’s financial problems…and creating some for New Zealand
11 Jun 2018 KiwiSaver boosts first home market: ANZ
11 Jun 2018 Getting to grips with leases
11 Jun 2018 Partners Life unfazed by Mosaic loss
11 Jun 2018 Kiwibank moves rates; Others adjust servicing levels
11 Jun 2018 Questions of Conduct: when does good conduct become financial advice?
11 Jun 2018 PAA gets 'yes' vote, takes next step to wind-up
08 Jun 2018 ASB, Westpac tweak servicing tests
08 Jun 2018 Medical records no silver bullet for disclosure
08 Jun 2018 New Housing “super” Ministry coming
08 Jun 2018 DTIs will be looked at again
08 Jun 2018 KiwiSaver incentives 'don't help those who need it most'
08 Jun 2018 Higher meth test levels for REA
07 Jun 2018 Next phase of RBNZ review likely to assess DTIs
07 Jun 2018 Pie Funds cuts performance fees
07 Jun 2018 PM Capital poaches Platinum portfolio man
07 Jun 2018 Overseas buyer rise due to proposed ban
07 Jun 2018 Tackling meth uncertainty
07 Jun 2018 Why private health insurance is an investment, not a cost
07 Jun 2018 Fidelity Life: Advisers told us products must improve
07 Jun 2018 NZCU Baywide widens lending criteria
07 Jun 2018 NZCU Baywide to offer 95% mortgages
07 Jun 2018 Southern market values star
07 Jun 2018 Consultation fatigue hits advisers
06 Jun 2018 Trustees Executors makes key appointments
06 Jun 2018 Changes for RFAs nothing to worry about
06 Jun 2018 New build financing gap boosts Southern Cross
06 Jun 2018 Signs of life in sales rise
06 Jun 2018 HSBC launches 5th sub 4% home loan offer
06 Jun 2018 HSBC does it again
06 Jun 2018 Is more better, or just confusing?
06 Jun 2018 Vertical integration: Financial advice sector's weak link?
05 Jun 2018 Read joins adviser group
05 Jun 2018 Italy: A bigger threat than Brexit?
05 Jun 2018 Young investor success stories
05 Jun 2018 Simplicity drops investments
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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