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February 2025
14 Feb 2025 RBNZ's Next Move: Eyes on the OCR Forecast
14 Feb 2025 OCR preview - RBNZ has more cuts and work to do
13 Feb 2025 ComCom’s Mortgage Proposal Sparks Backlash from Advisers
13 Feb 2025 Invisible AI data trails a clear ESG risk
13 Feb 2025 ComCom's 3 applications per loan demand is 'crazy': FAMNZ
13 Feb 2025 How banks make super profits off savings accounts
12 Feb 2025 Energy stocks dominate trade on the NZX
12 Feb 2025 Salt Funds Management appoints a new independent director
12 Feb 2025 ASB made up for lost time with $2.28b net new mortgages in 1H
12 Feb 2025 Harbour Outlook: A rebound amid uncertainty
12 Feb 2025 Open Banking in NZ: A Game-Changer for Home Loan Approvals
12 Feb 2025 Financial adviser target-based incentives banned from 31 March 2025
12 Feb 2025 More kernels added to the cob
12 Feb 2025 10 Minute home loan approvals on the cards
11 Feb 2025 Rocky day on sharemarket
11 Feb 2025 Chubb gets new head of claims
11 Feb 2025 Big Moves in Home Loans: Why Borrowers Are Fixing at Record Rates
11 Feb 2025 Borrowers switch from floating to fixed rates at brisk clip
11 Feb 2025 Asset managers shy away from ESG label under Trump
11 Feb 2025 Struggling savers draining retirement funds to cover living costs
10 Feb 2025 NZ sharemarket starts week down 0.2%
10 Feb 2025 Find out about nib's new products
10 Feb 2025 Shifting the Dial: FMA Encourages Smarter Compliance and Innovation
10 Feb 2025 Streamline Your Investment Advice with OMNIMax’s New Investment Solution
10 Feb 2025 Should we be commoditising life insurance?
10 Feb 2025 Shifting the dial on good advice
07 Feb 2025 NZ sharemarket ends short week up 0.4%
07 Feb 2025 Alpha First lures 20-year ANZ stalwart
07 Feb 2025 Next big issue for mortgage advisers
07 Feb 2025 KiwiSaver market share leader ANZ at bottom of performance table
07 Feb 2025 Early days, but NZ Super's machine-learning fund outperforms
06 Feb 2025 KiwiSaver market share leader ANZ at bottom of performance table
05 Feb 2025 Volatile stocks drive NZ sharemarket down nearly 0.5%
05 Feb 2025 Aurora Capital gets two fishers
05 Feb 2025 Retirement savings targets could be overblown
05 Feb 2025 Non-banks still need to prove their worth despite govt backing
04 Feb 2025 Business Development Manager
04 Feb 2025 Trade war truce breathes life into NZ sharemarket
04 Feb 2025 Number of mortgage holders behind in payments up 1,100 in one month
03 Feb 2025 NZ sharemarket Trumped by tariffs, down 1.4%
03 Feb 2025 Resolution Life completes Asteron purchase
03 Feb 2025 Former Fidelity BM of the year joins NZHL
02 Feb 2025 Luxon sacks FEC chair Stuart Smith without explanation
01 Feb 2025 Generate expands Adviser team
January 2025
31 Jan 2025 NZ sharemarket ends week up 0.5%
31 Jan 2025 FMA’s international chief economist recruit resigns after two years
31 Jan 2025 [TMM Podcast] Yelsa serves up “marine reserve” of property buyers
31 Jan 2025 KiwiSaver members open to sacrificing more for future gain
30 Jan 2025 NZ sharemarket down 0.5%, AIA down 2.5%
30 Jan 2025 Switching banks takes a huge chunk of mortgage money
30 Jan 2025 The New Normal: RBNZ Says Pre-COVID Interest Rates Are a Thing of the Past
30 Jan 2025 RBNZ warns interest rates unlikely to return to pre-covid levels
29 Jan 2025 Rocky session on the markets today
29 Jan 2025 The squeeze is set to ease
29 Jan 2025 Mortgage Relief on the Horizon
29 Jan 2025 Retirement planning must take heed of economic headwinds
28 Jan 2025 NZ sharemarket down 0.3% amid AI upheaval
28 Jan 2025 TAPping into AI
28 Jan 2025 Mortgage Relief: Lower Rates, Bigger Savings
28 Jan 2025 Putting billions back in mortgage borrowers pockets
27 Jan 2025 Synlait’s cautious recovery pleases market
24 Jan 2025 NZ sharemarket ends week down 0.8%
24 Jan 2025 Milford gets new CEO
24 Jan 2025 Luxon Pushes for RBNZ to Act Faster on OCR Decisions
24 Jan 2025 PM suggests RBNZ make OCR decisions more often
24 Jan 2025 Biggest has baddest returns
23 Jan 2025 NZ sharemarket ticks up as Wall St bulls charge
23 Jan 2025 Is Fixing Short-Term Still the Best Choice?
23 Jan 2025 Warning about fixing short term from top economist
23 Jan 2025 Angels fear consequences of FMA wholesale investor test case
22 Jan 2025 Rocket Lab Surges Over 30% to Record High Amid Renewed Space Exploration Optimism
22 Jan 2025 [Opinion] CPD – identifying the stuff we don’t know but really should
22 Jan 2025 Harbour Outlook: So much for the Christmas rally
22 Jan 2025 Are Rising Rates Making Property Investors Nervous?
22 Jan 2025 Investor mortgage borrowers’ sentiment takes a nose dive
21 Jan 2025 Fisher and Paykel Healthcare feels brunt of Trump's proposed tariffs
21 Jan 2025 Are Short-Term Mortgage Rates Really Worth the Risk?
21 Jan 2025 Jumping off the short-term interest rate bandwagon
20 Jan 2025 Takeover for Millennium and Copthorne; Otherwise quiet on NZX
20 Jan 2025 Open Finance Shake-Up: Are You Ready for the Big Changes Ahead?
20 Jan 2025 Open finance momentum expected to gather pace in 2025
20 Jan 2025 Westpac's BT lifts annual net profit 10.8%
17 Jan 2025 NZ sharemarket up over 1.8% for the week
17 Jan 2025 Gut on you Asteron
17 Jan 2025 New Partnership to Upskill New Zealand’s Financial Capability Workforce
17 Jan 2025 Devon Funds 2025 Predictions
17 Jan 2025 Appeal of one-stop shop helps drive Sharesies’ KiwiSaver growth
17 Jan 2025 A few little home loan rate cuts; Split forecasts on next OCR decision
17 Jan 2025 Economists split on RBNZ OCR cut: How much will the Reserve Bank lower rates in February?
17 Jan 2025 Leaving last year's stumbling housing market behind
16 Jan 2025 NZ sharemarket up nearly 0.5%, third rise this week
16 Jan 2025 [Media Release] Get your clients finances in shape for the New Year
16 Jan 2025 Retail investors seeking US exposure as confidence returns
15 Jan 2025 NZ sharemarket lifts off after Auckland Airport numbers
15 Jan 2025 Outlook for 2025: How about no landing?
15 Jan 2025 What's the best mortgage rate strategy for 2025?
15 Jan 2025 To fix or not to fix: Mortgage rate decisions a key theme for 2025
15 Jan 2025 Borrowers turn to short term mortgage rates in droves
15 Jan 2025 Don’t bet on house prices rising faster than incomes
14 Jan 2025 NZ sharemarket up on economic recovery news
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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