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March 2025
11 Mar 2025 Turbocharge your brand
11 Mar 2025 Borrowers sticking with short-term rates - even as fixed rates drop
11 Mar 2025 Mortgages on short-term rates surged again at the beginning of the year
10 Mar 2025 NZ sharemarket starts week up 0.9% after late surge
10 Mar 2025 Opportunity knocks - the case for further asset sales.
10 Mar 2025 Booster gets new CEO
10 Mar 2025 Public health treatment going private – good news?
10 Mar 2025 Mortgage advice gone wrong? FSCL urges advisers to keep accurate records
10 Mar 2025 Advisers told not to overpromise
10 Mar 2025 KiwiSaver advice great opportunity: Bascand
10 Mar 2025 Countdown to CoFI: FMA works to complete licensing
07 Mar 2025 International winds of uncertainty blow over NZ sharemarket
07 Mar 2025 [The Wrap] The war in Ukraine and investing
07 Mar 2025 [The Wrap] The Oscars of funds management gets heckled
07 Mar 2025 Mortgage advisers battle commerce commission over new rules
07 Mar 2025 Familiar name rises to the top again
07 Mar 2025 Mortgage advisers punch-up with ComCom takes a new twist
06 Mar 2025 Making sense of Orr's resignation
06 Mar 2025 Commercial real estate in 2025: primed for recovery
06 Mar 2025 NZFSG joins up with specialist insurer
06 Mar 2025 NZ Super tips funds into private investor
06 Mar 2025 AM Update Newsletter Feedback Survey
06 Mar 2025 Longer-term mortgage rates near cycle lows
05 Mar 2025 Financial markets hate tariffs: NZX 50 down 0.5%
05 Mar 2025 Adrian Orr departs RBNZ still congratulating himself
05 Mar 2025 Orr resigns
05 Mar 2025 Small business lender goes prime
05 Mar 2025 InvestNow builds on its foundation
05 Mar 2025 Kiwibank, ASB lift mortgage market share, ANZ, Westpac lag
05 Mar 2025 No lid on KiwiSaver fees as balances grow
04 Mar 2025 NZ sharemarket down 0.6% on eve of US tariffs
04 Mar 2025 Claims rises outstrip premium increases
04 Mar 2025 Home loan delinquencies climb - financial hardship at record levels
04 Mar 2025 Distressed home loans reach record highs
04 Mar 2025 Rise in retiree renters to influence data in decades to come
03 Mar 2025 Shares down amid Bremworth coup; Warehouse continues to struggle
03 Mar 2025 Chubb names new CEO
03 Mar 2025 nib launch dates announced
03 Mar 2025 Heartland Ends Digital Home Loans | ANZ Predicts More OCR Cuts
03 Mar 2025 Who will win Fund Manager of the Year awards this week?
02 Mar 2025 Bank turns off digital home loans
01 Mar 2025 [The Wrap] Bye Bye Bayly
February 2025
28 Feb 2025 Pacific Edge soars on busy day for NZX
28 Feb 2025 NZ companies solid on ESG amid global corporate culture shift
28 Feb 2025 [GRTV] Tiger FinTech’s Greg Boland on market shifts and NZX struggles
28 Feb 2025 [GRTV] Turning FMA visits into opportunities: Head of client engagement at Insurance people shares insights from her experience
28 Feb 2025 Mortgage surge: who’s borrowing big and who’s losing out?
28 Feb 2025 Investors again making their mark in the mortgage market
28 Feb 2025 [GRTV] Antipodes portfolio manager discusses emerging markets fund's potential amid volatility
28 Feb 2025 Heartland's reverse mortgage growth slows: Online home loans closed
27 Feb 2025 Cyclical stocks lift NZ sharemarket for second day
27 Feb 2025 New PIE from big US manager
27 Feb 2025 Kiwibank grows home loans at twice its market share
27 Feb 2025 Life and health market outlook 2025
27 Feb 2025 Embracing Admin Data for the Census: A Data Analyst's Perspective from the Insurance Sector
27 Feb 2025 Kiwibank’s Mortgage Growth Soars
27 Feb 2025 Short-term mortgage rates now a waste of time
27 Feb 2025 Riding the wave: thematic investing in the Trump era
26 Feb 2025 NZ sharemarket changes direction, up 1.1% on more positive results
26 Feb 2025 Trustees Executors to sell registry business, focus on supervision
25 Feb 2025 Ryman Healthcare's 21% fall after resuming trading brings NZX 50 down 1.8%
25 Feb 2025 nib posts first half loss but expects to rebound in second half
25 Feb 2025 How the big four compare
25 Feb 2025 Comparing two year rates; Long term rates may have plateaued
25 Feb 2025 Long-term interest rates not expected to fall much further
25 Feb 2025 AI gives rise to more fake FSP scams
24 Feb 2025 Ryman's $1 bill capital raise focuses market; Stocks down overall
24 Feb 2025 Bayly resigns after “overbearing” behaviour towards staff member
24 Feb 2025 Credit where credit’s due
24 Feb 2025 Funds and platform make up nearly half NZX's revenue
23 Feb 2025 Your weekend read:
21 Feb 2025 Spark was the story of the day; And it wasn't bright
21 Feb 2025 Consilium reaches a milestone
20 Feb 2025 SkyCity and Auck Airport drag market down
20 Feb 2025 Rate conundrum lies ahead
20 Feb 2025 New Adviser council members
20 Feb 2025 RBNZ: half of all mortgages to reprice over next six months
19 Feb 2025 Ebos boss resigns; NZ Windfarms in take over
19 Feb 2025 RBNZ cuts OCR by 50pb, signals further cuts sooner
19 Feb 2025 Breaking News: Breaking: OCR Lowered to 3.75%
19 Feb 2025 BREAKING: OCR 3.75% - OCR reduced further as inflation abates
19 Feb 2025 Mortgage Rates Shift & A New Era for Edge Mortgages
19 Feb 2025 Advisers brace for rush of home buyers
19 Feb 2025 Lock-up vs liquid: why a KiwiSaver cornerstone could change
19 Feb 2025 Link gets an edge
19 Feb 2025 Heartland writes off nearly $50m, says reverse mortgages still strong
18 Feb 2025 Heartland Bank takes a hit; Turners gets an upgrade
18 Feb 2025 [Opinion] Are life advisers required to be proactive?
18 Feb 2025 FMT adds new Auckland BDM
18 Feb 2025 RBNZ Survey Offers Reassurance Ahead of OCR Decision & FMT Expands in Auckland
18 Feb 2025 Changes at Asteron post sale
18 Feb 2025 Global brand names in ETFs driving local demand
18 Feb 2025 Some comfort for RBNZ ahead of Wednesday’s OCR review
17 Feb 2025 NZ sharemarket responds positively to earnings; a2 surges
17 Feb 2025 Back to the future
17 Feb 2025 48-Hour Pre-Approvals: Kiwibank Raises the Bar for Advisers
17 Feb 2025 Kiwibank promises advisers 48-hour turnaround on pre-approvals
15 Feb 2025 Financial Advisor
15 Feb 2025 Senior Manager Intermediary
14 Feb 2025 nib rolls out its life offering
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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