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June 2018
05 Jun 2018 PAA rules out legal funds for opposing members
01 Jun 2018 Spotlight on non-bank fees
01 Jun 2018 Supply pressure building
01 Jun 2018 Booster seeds new global bond fund
01 Jun 2018 Watch out for 'green-washing'
May 2018
31 May 2018 New name and look for JMIS
31 May 2018 Proceed with caution on meth
31 May 2018 Update on LVR restrictions; Commission not needed
31 May 2018 Disclose cost of advice, not commission: Financial Advice NZ
30 May 2018 FMA and RBNZ: No Royal Commission needed yet
30 May 2018 Regulators: no "evidence" to warrant NZ banking commission
30 May 2018 Regulators comb through bank responses
30 May 2018 Townhouse consents surge
30 May 2018 ANZ sells OnePath
30 May 2018 LVR easing not on cards
30 May 2018 Ministers meet regulators as banks, insurers asked for information
30 May 2018 PAA attempts holiday homes vote 2.0
29 May 2018 SBS grows lending book, but with less aggression
29 May 2018 FANZ has best year
29 May 2018 Meth relief for landlords
29 May 2018 Rock steady performer
29 May 2018 General Finance to join stock market
29 May 2018 Associations hang back from Financial Advice NZ
28 May 2018 Bleak investor predictions premature
28 May 2018 Property Institute questions government housing policy
28 May 2018 Asbestos duties clarified
28 May 2018 Advisers 'should be next for regulator check'
25 May 2018 Investor mortgages creeping up
25 May 2018 Conservative attitude a bigger problem than fees: McLachlan
24 May 2018 Latest RBNZ figures reveal first time buyer boom
24 May 2018 Insurers next for regulatory scrutiny
24 May 2018 Royal Commission triggers letter to insurers from FMA and RBNZ
24 May 2018 Senior changes at New Zealand Home Loans
24 May 2018 Getting landlord cover right
24 May 2018 Dodds: Regulators 'attack on integrity'
23 May 2018 Jail for dodgy property consultant
23 May 2018 Regulate property managers - REINZ
23 May 2018 Daintree launches NZD option
23 May 2018 Minister 'encourages' providers to change soft commission structures
22 May 2018 Northland adviser launches next-gen chatbot
22 May 2018 Airbnb profits for landlord not tenant
22 May 2018 Law reform process asks: Are commissions bad?
22 May 2018 Soft rebound for price optimism
22 May 2018 Advisers follow Slater to new EDR
21 May 2018 Cressida Capital appoints new BDM
21 May 2018 Regional rents soar
21 May 2018 Migration hits two year low
21 May 2018 Kiwi Wealth launches wholesale offer
21 May 2018 Health insurance gets boost from workplace schemes
21 May 2018 Pinning down value
21 May 2018 Regional rents soar
21 May 2018 Schemes query disclosure requirement
21 May 2018 Severn: Change focus of incentives
18 May 2018 PM Capital receives award from researcher
18 May 2018 Harbour adds to fixed interest team
18 May 2018 Important lessons from Australia
18 May 2018 Nikko and Harbour hover up more gongs; Fisher and Savage rewarded
18 May 2018 Brokers' Budget Guide; Is ANZ trying to replace brokers with coaches?
18 May 2018 Landlords left in cold on insulation
18 May 2018 ANZ talks Home Loan Coaches
18 May 2018 KiwiSaver rules for MPs - even if their scheme doesn't exist any more
17 May 2018 Loan Market’s White calls for industry reforms
17 May 2018 Budgeting to build
17 May 2018 Ballantyne: Partners keen for any purchase opportunity
17 May 2018 Budgeting to build
17 May 2018 Soft commission schemes untenable under new regime: FMA
16 May 2018 Soft dollar commissions: What’s the problem?
16 May 2018 Advisers, not consumers benefit from soft commissions: FMA
16 May 2018 Property investing popular with MPs
16 May 2018 Disclosure consultation and commission
16 May 2018 Dale-Jones: Financial advice different to other professions
15 May 2018 Read takes GM role
15 May 2018 Read takes GM role
15 May 2018 AFA population shrinks
15 May 2018 FMA takes FSPR action again
15 May 2018 Gough becomes Head of Kepa Home Loans
15 May 2018 Auckland rent rise shock
15 May 2018 Kepa appoints new home loans boss
15 May 2018 FADC prepares for another case
15 May 2018 Older KiwiSaver members prompted to switch
14 May 2018 RESIMAC unveils self-employed specials
14 May 2018 Kepa ready for regulatory changes
14 May 2018 Milford takes Consumer award
14 May 2018 Sowerby moves on
14 May 2018 SBS cuts; Cairns and Lockie back in the market
14 May 2018 Taking control of his future
14 May 2018 Level five likely to be easiest way: Strategi
14 May 2018 Financial Advice NZ appointment rallies support
14 May 2018 General Finance founders target funding gap with EMortgage
11 May 2018 Kiwi Wealth gets first robo green light
11 May 2018 Sales activity soft but stabilising
11 May 2018 RESIMAC makes cuts on big growth; Reviewing the new-look RBNZ
11 May 2018 Orr’s debut on target
11 May 2018 RESIMAC cuts rates after 30% volume rise
11 May 2018 Working group signals changes
10 May 2018 AMP: NZ sale not priority
10 May 2018 First Financial Advice NZ CEO announced
10 May 2018 Bank buster newsletter
10 May 2018 Applause for OCR call
10 May 2018 OCR Unchanged; What Orr said
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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