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May 2023
02 May 2023 Snail’s pace for new listings
02 May 2023 Simplicity expands with new funds and allocation changes
02 May 2023 How much money paid to banks in interest revealed; ANZ cuts
02 May 2023 Mortgage interest payments rising rapidly
01 May 2023 Quiet start to NZ sharemarket's week, optimism for strong US earnings season
01 May 2023 InvestNow KiwiSaver Scheme: A Simple Solution for Advisers
01 May 2023 LVR tweaks substantive for owner-occupier
01 May 2023 Work from home lifts rents in outer suburbs
01 May 2023 LVR tweaks substantive for owner-occupiers
01 May 2023 Paul Bevin joins board of boutique fund
01 May 2023 Adviser roadshow for nib new life and living product
April 2023
30 Apr 2023 New and cheaper PI insurance hits the market
28 Apr 2023 NZ sharemarket lifts after positive news from the US
28 Apr 2023 House price falls predictions drop
28 Apr 2023 Next OCR hike not needed, economist says
28 Apr 2023 Droves of landlords want to raise rents
28 Apr 2023 [GRTV] Adviser’s obligations in ethical investing
27 Apr 2023 Auckland airport shares return to previous highs
27 Apr 2023 OCR cuts by November prediction
27 Apr 2023 From worm farms to loans
27 Apr 2023 Adviser returns from 15-year absence to much tougher finance market
27 Apr 2023 Simplicity switches out Vanguard for tax gain
26 Apr 2023 NZ market down following Synlait profit downgrade
26 Apr 2023 Finally....LVR rules to be loosened
26 Apr 2023 Unpopular LVR rules to be loosened
26 Apr 2023 Employers including KiwiSaver as part of pay packets instead of on top
26 Apr 2023 How many advisers have left the industry?
25 Apr 2023 [GRTV] InvestNow past, present and future
24 Apr 2023 Sharemarket starts week on a buoyant note
24 Apr 2023 nib kicks off kids' relay comp
24 Apr 2023 Demand for mortgages continues to decline; good and bad news on the inflation war
24 Apr 2023 Lawyer petitions for probate tweak on KiwiSaver funds
24 Apr 2023 Mental suffering underlined in failed eviction bid
24 Apr 2023 Some good and bad news on the inflation war
24 Apr 2023 The Ides of March
24 Apr 2023 Demand for mortgages continues to decline: RBNZ
24 Apr 2023 How to set rents when inflation is rampant
23 Apr 2023 Passive managers piggy backing off active manager
22 Apr 2023 Gotta get comfortable using capital in retirement
21 Apr 2023 Sharemarket ends week with an upwards tick
21 Apr 2023 Tony Alexander says buy now
21 Apr 2023 Buy now Alexander tells advisers
20 Apr 2023 Interest rate fears dampen NZ sharemarket
20 Apr 2023 Impact fund startup gets shot at ‘Nobel Prize’ of environmentalism
20 Apr 2023 Inflation surprise; but rate cuts unlikely.
20 Apr 2023 Worst of house price drops could be at an end
20 Apr 2023 Bank profits level out – mortgage arrears rise
19 Apr 2023 Sharemarket has another late surge into positive territory
19 Apr 2023 Sharesies savings on the way
19 Apr 2023 Measuring returns – our industry has it wrong
19 Apr 2023 Mortgage payments rearranged as living costs spiral
19 Apr 2023 Mainstreaming impact investment project underway
18 Apr 2023 ASB is predicting the country’s economy will tip deeper into recession
18 Apr 2023 NZ sharemarket tumbles half a percent
18 Apr 2023 Paying for the economic hangover
18 Apr 2023 Nelson financial adviser sentenced after losing High Court action
18 Apr 2023 March better but housing still in the doldrums
18 Apr 2023 Financial Services Council data reveal financial resilience slipping
18 Apr 2023 Asteron announced enhancements to its employee insurance cover
18 Apr 2023 New financial advice diploma
17 Apr 2023 AIA makes two internal appointments
17 Apr 2023 Late surge lifts sharemarket into positive territory
17 Apr 2023 Migration gain continues to rise
17 Apr 2023 Fund manager charged with assault
17 Apr 2023 Migrant tap back on
17 Apr 2023 Building costs growth slows
17 Apr 2023 Bentham Asset Management announces global income PIE fund in NZ
14 Apr 2023 Sharemarket closes down on very low volumes
14 Apr 2023 Cracking the Responsible Investing Code
14 Apr 2023 FSF looks to grow with new role filled
14 Apr 2023 Rent drops bad news for landlords
14 Apr 2023 Prediction interest rates will remain higher longer
14 Apr 2023 Westpac takes a different approach to ANZ; CCCFA changes again
13 Apr 2023 Investors focused on inflation as shares meander
13 Apr 2023 Fisher Funds to jettison fees
13 Apr 2023 Australian real estate giant hopes to shake up NZ market
13 Apr 2023 Government has another go at tweaking CCCFA
13 Apr 2023 ANZ blinks first
12 Apr 2023 NZ investors quiet as investors await US inflation data
12 Apr 2023 Kiwis willing to trade to keep pension age down
12 Apr 2023 Building trust paramount with climate reporting
12 Apr 2023 Proposed legislation making it harder for non-bank deposit takers
12 Apr 2023 Proposed legislation hindering non-bank deposit takers capital raising
12 Apr 2023 House values drop by $250,000 in Wellington and Auckland
11 Apr 2023 Sharemarket ends flat after rocky start
11 Apr 2023 DTI restrictions to bed in next year
11 Apr 2023 5 ways Prospa helps advisers succeed
11 Apr 2023 Are advisers using bank calculators correctly?
11 Apr 2023 A $1.5 trillion wall of debt looming for US commercial properties
10 Apr 2023 Relying on banks’ calculators not enough for advisers
06 Apr 2023 All quiet on the sharemarket front
06 Apr 2023 Plans to buy shares swing upwards
06 Apr 2023 Mortgage rates not likely to move
06 Apr 2023 House price falls in hundreds of thousands
06 Apr 2023 What the RBNZ's surprise OCR hike means for home loan rates
06 Apr 2023 What economists are now predicting for interest rates
05 Apr 2023 Market absorbs Reserve Bank shock
05 Apr 2023 Kiwis risk missing out with limited benchmarks
05 Apr 2023 OCR Announcement: What the Reserve Bank said
05 Apr 2023 BREAKING: RBNZ raises OCR by 50 bps
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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.
2 weeks 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