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April 2008
04 Apr 2008 Tenants stay longer in energy efficient houses
04 Apr 2008 House prices 30% over-valued: BNZ
04 Apr 2008 April issue - available now
03 Apr 2008 Hanover confirms profit
03 Apr 2008 New website simplifying insurance
03 Apr 2008 Home loan report: Glimmer of hope?
03 Apr 2008 Home loan report: Glimmer of hope?
02 Apr 2008 South Canterbury buys from receivers
02 Apr 2008 ASB launches Sustainability Investment Fund
02 Apr 2008 Government may ditch APBs
02 Apr 2008 ING appoints new Managing Director - Real Estate
02 Apr 2008 2008 Fundsource Professional Investment Conference
01 Apr 2008 Morningstar 'recommends' Fisher Funds
01 Apr 2008 ASB lost mortgage market share in Dec quarter
01 Apr 2008 S&P paints picture of debenture market
01 Apr 2008 Wairarapa: Our best-kept secret
01 Apr 2008 Property investors refocus on cash flow
March 2008
31 Mar 2008 S&P paints picture of debenture market
31 Mar 2008 Milford Asset expands it staff base
31 Mar 2008 News Round Up
30 Mar 2008 Origin ends Pioneer relationship
28 Mar 2008 [Weekly Wrap] Fisher and ING highlight of short week
28 Mar 2008 The lighter side of the credit crunch
28 Mar 2008 Hanover Group appoints CFO
28 Mar 2008 Westpac latest cab off the cash PIE rank
27 Mar 2008 F&P to keep finance company
27 Mar 2008 AIG Life appoints Regional Sales Mgr
27 Mar 2008 ANZ stands by CDO fund sales
27 Mar 2008 BNZ lowers rate on share offer
26 Mar 2008 Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
26 Mar 2008 Rates up, up and away
26 Mar 2008 Rates up, up and away
26 Mar 2008 Super Fund ends relationship with Fisher
25 Mar 2008 Tower appoints MD
25 Mar 2008 News Round Up
25 Mar 2008 Kiwibank grows home loan market share
25 Mar 2008 Landlords pushing up rents
21 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
20 Mar 2008 Your guide to bank bond offers
20 Mar 2008 [Weekly Wrap] Unlikely allies may join forces
20 Mar 2008 Confidence placed in Blue Chip liquidator
20 Mar 2008 Harcourts' sales down over 30%
20 Mar 2008 Quest to be the biggest and the best
20 Mar 2008 NZ Super Fund considers changes
20 Mar 2008 Changes at Super Fund following CIO departure
19 Mar 2008 TSB gets a ratings upgrade
19 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
19 Mar 2008 Tax rules would change under National
19 Mar 2008 Book: Property Law - A NZ Investors Guide
19 Mar 2008 Home loan rates up and rising
18 Mar 2008 9th Annual SuperFunds Summit
18 Mar 2008 No tax write-offs for investors
18 Mar 2008 The Best of Both Worlds
18 Mar 2008 Insurance rates rising: Survey
18 Mar 2008 SLPF raises money while it can
18 Mar 2008 Falling market offers opportunities for investors
17 Mar 2008 Debenture holders unable to write off losses: IRD
17 Mar 2008 PAA launch mortgage market offering
17 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
17 Mar 2008 Mortgage brokers warm to joint APB
17 Mar 2008 Property investors beware - IRD investigation starting
16 Mar 2008 Go Mr Common Sense
14 Mar 2008 Weekly Wrap: PackING it in
14 Mar 2008 Attention shifts to credit funds
14 Mar 2008 Most people picking their own KiwiSaver managers
14 Mar 2008 Financial Independence for Holland
13 Mar 2008 IFA Professional Development
13 Mar 2008 Possible new rules for packaged property
13 Mar 2008 Housing market not a good look for Govt
13 Mar 2008 Investors need to think about returns differently
13 Mar 2008 ING shuts out investors as CDO losses mount
12 Mar 2008 Cover Notes
12 Mar 2008 Flying high
12 Mar 2008 REINZ residential highlights - February 2008
12 Mar 2008 February residential property market on the edge - REINZ
12 Mar 2008 GSF activates new global shares mandates
12 Mar 2008 Time to regulate sellers of packaged property
12 Mar 2008 New appointment at IRG
12 Mar 2008 Blue Chip investors told to hang in there
12 Mar 2008 Dyer dumped as NZ Super 'restructures'
11 Mar 2008 Not all bad news for property market
11 Mar 2008 Accountancy body shrugs off IFA critique
10 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
10 Mar 2008 Slowdown continues for property values
10 Mar 2008 Brown takes the bait at Fisher
10 Mar 2008 ASSET - Thoughts for the day
10 Mar 2008 News Round Up
10 Mar 2008 QV commentary shows values dropping
07 Mar 2008 Professional Investment Services Summit 2008
07 Mar 2008 Changes afoot at Money Managers
06 Mar 2008 Auckland produces buyers' market in February
06 Mar 2008 Stark reality of housing market decline
06 Mar 2008 Monetary Policy Statement
06 Mar 2008 Bollard holds rates steady, highlights inflation, growth risks
06 Mar 2008 The official cash rate (OCR) will remain unchanged at 8.25%.
06 Mar 2008 St Laurence pulls listing plan
06 Mar 2008 The official cash rate (OCR) will remain unchanged at 8.25%.
05 Mar 2008 MFS Pacific to get around $11 mill
05 Mar 2008 Market Review: March 2008 commentary
05 Mar 2008 Westpac, TSB's mortgage market shares drop slightly
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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