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May 2009
06 May 2009 Significant changes at Salvus
06 May 2009 Mortgagee sales well below market value
05 May 2009 Small lenders take on big banks
05 May 2009 No signs of surge in activity slowing
05 May 2009 Opinion: Folly, money and pain
05 May 2009 Strategic Finance struggles to refinance on property slump
05 May 2009 Diplock heralds single Australasian advisory market
04 May 2009 PIS Professional Development Days
04 May 2009 PAA Roadshow
04 May 2009 News round-up
01 May 2009 [Weekly Wrap] I’m covered by PI insurance – Yeah right
01 May 2009 Is the buyers’ market about to end?
01 May 2009 IFA slates Lumley over PI
01 May 2009 IFA slates Lumley over PI
April 2009
30 Apr 2009 Rate cut good news
30 Apr 2009 Rabo caps PIE offer
30 Apr 2009 Home-building approvals dip to 17-year low
30 Apr 2009 National Bank, ASB, SBS, BNZ break fees cleared by regulator
30 Apr 2009 National Bank, ASB, SBS, BNZ break fees cleared by regulator
30 Apr 2009 Bollard slashes rates and says they will stay low
30 Apr 2009 RBNZ cuts OCR to record low 2.5%
30 Apr 2009 RBNZ cuts OCR to record low 2.5%
30 Apr 2009 Magellan bullish on developing markets
29 Apr 2009 Health insurance market is weathering the storm
29 Apr 2009 NAB says BNZ home loans book grew $500m in first half
29 Apr 2009 ASFONZ Annual General Meeting
29 Apr 2009 KiwiSaver still as popular as ever
29 Apr 2009 Equities more attractive as global economy troughs
29 Apr 2009 Conroy joins Asteron in senior leadership role
28 Apr 2009 Viaduct Capital returns to market sans guarantee
28 Apr 2009 Southern Cross has rating affirmed
28 Apr 2009 One strike and you're out - policy unfair
28 Apr 2009 McMillan develops new career at TNP
27 Apr 2009 McMillan set to leave PAA
27 Apr 2009 Rates round-up
27 Apr 2009 News Round Up
26 Apr 2009 50 pt rate cut predicted
24 Apr 2009 [Weekly Wrap] Did I hear you say progress?
24 Apr 2009 Fronting up on asset allocation
24 Apr 2009 Three changes at Guardian
24 Apr 2009 Adviser case ruling controversial cont.
24 Apr 2009 Adviser case ruling controversial
24 Apr 2009 GRA wins top trustee award
23 Apr 2009 Flat fee companies being discriminated against?
23 Apr 2009 Turning rate thinking on its head
23 Apr 2009 UK transfers boost AXA NZ kitty
23 Apr 2009 Turning rate thinking on its head
22 Apr 2009 Women in Super industry breakfast
22 Apr 2009 Most KiwiSaver funds positive
22 Apr 2009 Sales activity returning
21 Apr 2009 Local incorporation out of insurance bill
21 Apr 2009 ING's three headed distribution team
21 Apr 2009 New rules for advisers outlined by Sec Com
21 Apr 2009 Sec Comm thoughts on setting adviser competence standards
21 Apr 2009 Rabo's new PIE
21 Apr 2009 Commission says company must tell both sides of story
21 Apr 2009 Viaduct Capital loses Crown guarantee
21 Apr 2009 IFA appoints investment group committee
20 Apr 2009 Loan Market expands again
20 Apr 2009 News Round Up
17 Apr 2009 [Weekly Wrap] Is this a turning point in the markets?
17 Apr 2009 KiwiSaver Performance Survey results table
17 Apr 2009 Kiwis recognise need to save for retirement
17 Apr 2009 Product recall argument daft
17 Apr 2009 Be careful who you listen to
17 Apr 2009 Infrastructure - Having you cake and eating it too
17 Apr 2009 Practice management: From customer to client
17 Apr 2009 Liontamer looks to Australia
17 Apr 2009 Improving market encourages more sales at Pegasus
16 Apr 2009 Professionals split over KiwiSaver
16 Apr 2009 Drug case outcome sets the bar
15 Apr 2009 Smedley leaves Guardian Trust
15 Apr 2009 Pathfinder looks for beta times
14 Apr 2009 Tower software aims for new standard
14 Apr 2009 Rates round-up
14 Apr 2009 News round-up
09 Apr 2009 Price data can confuse
09 Apr 2009 [Weekly Wrap] The return of an old friend
09 Apr 2009 Residential Real Estate market spikes: REINZ
09 Apr 2009 Residential Highlights – March 2009
09 Apr 2009 Eco-My-Flat competition encourages better tenants
09 Apr 2009 Economists agree OCR cut coming
09 Apr 2009 Govt weighs up foreign fund free-for-all
09 Apr 2009 NZ property values drop 9.3%
09 Apr 2009 QV residential highlights - March 2009
08 Apr 2009 Five Star directors banned
08 Apr 2009 Market Review: April 2009 Commentary
08 Apr 2009 Market Review: London April 2009 Commentary
08 Apr 2009 [Book] The Complete KiwiSaver
08 Apr 2009 Figures show baby boomers after property bargains
08 Apr 2009 ASFONZ / Women In Super Wellington Breakfast
08 Apr 2009 Plan B to see Fowler in court
07 Apr 2009 ANZO signs up new portfolio manager
07 Apr 2009 Syndicated property back
07 Apr 2009 Public Trust gets govt guarantee on interest
07 Apr 2009 Figures show baby boomers after property bargains
06 Apr 2009 Rates round-up
06 Apr 2009 News round-up
03 Apr 2009 [Weekly Wrap] Reinventing the wheel
03 Apr 2009 Change of leadership for AMP
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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