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May 2010
12 May 2010 Labour pushes for changes to rules around residential tenants
12 May 2010 Opinion: Newpark, Naomi and Us
12 May 2010 Banks repay $0.8m in overcharged break fees
12 May 2010 Banks repay $0.8m in overcharged break fees
12 May 2010 EITITO poaches another Adviserlink chief
12 May 2010 Financial Advisers Act — Are you prepared?
12 May 2010 Pathfinder prepares to launch second fund with a focus on water
11 May 2010 Receivers coy on future payments to Five Star investors
11 May 2010 Business Update 2010: Free FSPR seminars from Companies Office
11 May 2010 KiwiSaver returns plateau after four quarters of gains
11 May 2010 Financial Advisers Act — Are you prepared?
10 May 2010 Taxpayers bail out another finance company
10 May 2010 Advisers forced to tell on each other
10 May 2010 Receiver still untangling OPI Pacific's position
10 May 2010 Greek tragedy derails rate hike certainty
10 May 2010 KiwiSaver Performance Survey
10 May 2010 Term Deposits
10 May 2010 Asteron makes three appointments to help tackle regulation
10 May 2010 Competition tight for 12-month terms
10 May 2010 Q&A: Sam Stubbs talks KiwiSaver Trends
10 May 2010 Commerce Committee Chair has misgivings about QFE extension
10 May 2010 Property investors procrastinate ahead of Budget: QV
10 May 2010 QV main urban areas commentary: April 2010
10 May 2010 Property round-up
09 May 2010 The news gets worse for Nathans Finance debenture holders
07 May 2010 Waiting for the appointment
07 May 2010 Weekly wrap: Pioneer farwelled
07 May 2010 Business Update 2010: Free FSPR seminars from Companies Office
07 May 2010 [PAA] Education Roadshow
07 May 2010 Role changes at Sovereign
07 May 2010 Sovereign appoints adviser distribution manager
07 May 2010 Mike Pero Mortgages joins FSCL
07 May 2010 Labour growth results in strong consensus for June hike
07 May 2010 Optimism and house prices on the wane
06 May 2010 Prospects of June rate rise increase
06 May 2010 S&P tells South Canterbury how it can improve its rating
06 May 2010 Power plugs holes in financial adviser legislation
06 May 2010 S&P keeps South Canterbury's BB rating and negative credit watch
06 May 2010 Procrastinate while one has the chance
06 May 2010 Procrastinate while you have the chance
06 May 2010 Bollard: taking the foot off the accelerator
06 May 2010 Open Polytech puts off assessing ‘Standard C’ for now
06 May 2010 [PAA] Education Roadshow
06 May 2010 [PAA] Education Roadshow
06 May 2010 Haak takes up new Sovereign position
06 May 2010 Big shift to floating mortgages as rate hikes draw near
05 May 2010 AMP says conventional life policies being phased out
05 May 2010 Funds flow into boutiques picks up
05 May 2010 Some do and shouldn’t, some should but don’t
05 May 2010 Australia's central bank raises key rate to 4.5%, widening gap with NZ
05 May 2010 NAB environmental appointment and Aus/NZ carbon capability extension
05 May 2010 ISI fills new communications role
05 May 2010 Auckland house sales dip
05 May 2010 [PAA] Education Roadshow
05 May 2010 IFA fights for CFP rights
04 May 2010 Commerce Commission assesses First Step trusts
04 May 2010 RBA makes sixth rate hike
04 May 2010 Fidelity Life founder Gordon Watson passes away
04 May 2010 Business Update 2010: Free FSPR seminars from Companies Office
04 May 2010 Conditions ripe for rent rises
03 May 2010 No silver lining for Bridgecorp investors
03 May 2010 Floating your home loan is the way to go.
03 May 2010 First dispute resolution scheme approved
03 May 2010 Rates Round Up
03 May 2010 Investors not out of the woods yet
03 May 2010 Procrastinate while one has the chance!
03 May 2010 SCF sweetens rate for current investors
03 May 2010 News round-up
01 May 2010 Does price matter?
April 2010
30 Apr 2010 Sovereign to shield customers from tax increases
30 Apr 2010 The Investment Store loses a BDM and appoints sales support.
30 Apr 2010 Dorchester creates a new role
30 Apr 2010 A sad tale of positive cash flow property
30 Apr 2010 Building consents fall in March
30 Apr 2010 ISI members: the devil is in the detail
29 Apr 2010 Perpetual sends St Laurence to the receivers, slaps down Podmore
29 Apr 2010 Asteron KiwiSaver shuts, recommends Grosvenor
29 Apr 2010 Bollard gives himself "wiggle room" on first rate hike
29 Apr 2010 OCR held plus first mortagage rate change in two weeks
29 Apr 2010 Interest rate hike now in sight
29 Apr 2010 OCR April 2010
29 Apr 2010 Commissions are viable and fair: PAA
29 Apr 2010 Market continues trucking down
28 Apr 2010 Advisers given more time to comply with new regs
28 Apr 2010 St Laurence gives investors ultimatum
28 Apr 2010 Newpark appoints a new BDM familiar with regulation
28 Apr 2010 Guardian Trust appoints new head of product management
28 Apr 2010 Ban on commissions flawed
28 Apr 2010 Agent found guilty over misleading commission costs
27 Apr 2010 AIA appoints Head of Distribution and Marketing
27 Apr 2010 Deposit war shows no sign of abating: KPMG
27 Apr 2010 Where exactly is the middle of 2010?
27 Apr 2010 Power: NZ will not ban commissions
26 Apr 2010 It’s official – commissions to be banned
26 Apr 2010 Mutual Finance changes hands as Bublitz pops up again
26 Apr 2010 Overhaul of Financial Advice
26 Apr 2010 Bollard to hold OCR amid faltering retail spending and housing market
26 Apr 2010 Wrightson tinkers with rates across the board, ASB targets short money
26 Apr 2010 Business Update 2010: Free FSPR seminars from Companies Office
26 Apr 2010 News round-up
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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