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February 2014
20 Feb 2014 RBNZ outlines approach to insurers
20 Feb 2014 Construction costs increase
20 Feb 2014 Interest rates drive prices down: Westpac
19 Feb 2014 AIA looks to hold on to NZ's largest group schme
19 Feb 2014 PAA plans CEO appointment
19 Feb 2014 Firms charged over non-reporting
19 Feb 2014 Westpac adds a special
19 Feb 2014 Mercer: Consider annuities for KiwiSavers
19 Feb 2014 WOFs kick off
18 Feb 2014 Lenience for super transfers
18 Feb 2014 Sky TV considering bond offer
18 Feb 2014 Currency fundamentals 'still strong'
18 Feb 2014 Politics, growth and inflation
18 Feb 2014 Young people taking up insurance: Survey
18 Feb 2014 Pre-approvals 'problematic'
18 Feb 2014 Property developer jailed
17 Feb 2014 13 lucky for Accuro
17 Feb 2014 A good 18 holes for Fidelity
17 Feb 2014 ASB special; BNZ cuts a term
17 Feb 2014 BT: Focus on wealth important
17 Feb 2014 Changes at Camelot
17 Feb 2014 Merger mooted
17 Feb 2014 First-home buyers missing out: Survey
15 Feb 2014 Rangatira boss resigns
14 Feb 2014 ASB offers two-year special
14 Feb 2014 From FMA to advice
14 Feb 2014 Heartland buys equity release business
14 Feb 2014 [Weekly Wrap] What makes a good fund manager?
14 Feb 2014 Westpac goes up and down
14 Feb 2014 Should financial advice be tax-deductible?
14 Feb 2014 Compliance experts in demand: Survey
14 Feb 2014 Parents back first-home buyers
13 Feb 2014 House price vulnerability: S&P
13 Feb 2014 Westpac appoints new broker boss
13 Feb 2014 Can banks make good fund managers?
13 Feb 2014 Community housing development opens
13 Feb 2014 Money laundering risk flagged
13 Feb 2014 LVR rules affecting FHBs most: Alexander
12 Feb 2014 Westpac appoints new broker unit boss
12 Feb 2014 Room to move within rules: ASB
12 Feb 2014 Fair play for investors - improving fund disclosure
12 Feb 2014 Milford opens in Sydney
12 Feb 2014 Kiwisaver influence 'insignificant'
12 Feb 2014 Life insurers next to target young market
12 Feb 2014 Dunn: No tax to pay
11 Feb 2014 Low-LVR loans doing well: ANZ
11 Feb 2014 PAA appoints learning and development manager
11 Feb 2014 Another boutique to open
11 Feb 2014 Guarantee rules tweaked
11 Feb 2014 Westpac: Market past peak
11 Feb 2014 Harcourts picks rising prices
10 Feb 2014 Accuro switches ratings agencies
10 Feb 2014 Ross complaint dismissed
10 Feb 2014 Changes at Aegis
10 Feb 2014 Poor planning slows retirement
10 Feb 2014 QV blames LVR rules for slowing growth
09 Feb 2014 Southern Cross launches new policy
07 Feb 2014 Is one or three years a better bet?
07 Feb 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Insurance paying off
07 Feb 2014 Claims dip in 2013: FSC
07 Feb 2014 Complaint numbers up: FSCL
07 Feb 2014 Vendors treated as pawns: Helm
07 Feb 2014 Mayor: Bumper year for housing
05 Feb 2014 Pitfalls in advertising fees
05 Feb 2014 Number of insured increases
05 Feb 2014 Cheaper sales pick up: Barfoot
04 Feb 2014 nib launches new adviser product
04 Feb 2014 IFA should be more visible: Dodds
04 Feb 2014 OneAnswer funds perform well: Survey
04 Feb 2014 Interest rates don't dull appetite
04 Feb 2014 Listings pick up
03 Feb 2014 Bentley moves to Mint
03 Feb 2014 Reporting standards under review
03 Feb 2014 Sovereign faces big bill
January 2014
31 Jan 2014 No rose-tinted glasses for Wheeler
31 Jan 2014 TOWER fund renamed
31 Jan 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Has GFC put investors off?
31 Jan 2014 Solly finds a new port
31 Jan 2014 Conservative young investors shun advice
31 Jan 2014 OCR: What the economists said
31 Jan 2014 Pressure on both sides: ANZ
30 Jan 2014 Bagrie: Hikes will be effective
30 Jan 2014 What the RBNZ said
30 Jan 2014 OCR unchanged: What the bank said
30 Jan 2014 S&P rating 'positive for industry'
30 Jan 2014 Good year for KiwiSaver growth funds
30 Jan 2014 Tribunal applications fast-tracked
29 Jan 2014 High-LVR share drops further
29 Jan 2014 Fisher keeps Kingfish management
29 Jan 2014 The Co-operative Bank adds rates
29 Jan 2014 Adviser underperformance 'a blip'
29 Jan 2014 More properties under management: Report
28 Jan 2014 OCR set to stay the same: Westpac moves
28 Jan 2014 Confusion persists about limited advice
28 Jan 2014 OCR move unlikely this week: Survey
27 Jan 2014 Mainstream banks not liking Facebook
27 Jan 2014 Bank advice stepping up
27 Jan 2014 Tenant trouble pushes landlords to sell
24 Jan 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Future of advice force
24 Jan 2014 OCR move next week unlikely: Survey
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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