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March 2008
05 Mar 2008 Quiet achiever takes top fund award
04 Mar 2008 New boss of trustees organisation
04 Mar 2008 Uncertain future for Fortress notes
04 Mar 2008 INFINZ Finance & Treasury Forum 2008
04 Mar 2008 Major drafting error in KiwiSaver law
04 Mar 2008 New IRD tax book available now
03 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
03 Mar 2008 Regional review: Gold on the wild West Coast?
03 Mar 2008 News Round Up
03 Mar 2008 Sovereign keeps its number one spot
03 Mar 2008 March issue - available now
02 Mar 2008 Where to for rates?
02 Mar 2008 No rate relief this week: Economists
02 Mar 2008 Falling homeownership rate changing rental market
01 Mar 2008 Adviserlink Courses 2008
01 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
February 2008
29 Feb 2008 Weekly Wrap: D-day for disclosure
29 Feb 2008 Fishy business
29 Feb 2008 Women play it safe with KiwiSaver
29 Feb 2008 Adviser remuneration for all to see
28 Feb 2008 Home loan report: Rates still on the rise
28 Feb 2008 Rates still on the rise
28 Feb 2008 EUFA Roadshow
28 Feb 2008 More MFS trouble
28 Feb 2008 Middleton takes on Westpac role
27 Feb 2008 Geneva still working on plan
27 Feb 2008 No quick improvement in returns: Wood
26 Feb 2008 Marac profits in turmoil
26 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Industry Breakfast
26 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Industry Breakfast
26 Feb 2008 Special Book event
26 Feb 2008 Fisher loses Couillault
26 Feb 2008 BNZ mortgage market shares steady in Dec quarter
26 Feb 2008 Strategic Finance not for sale
26 Feb 2008 ANZ National Bank increase market share
25 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Trusteeship
25 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Industry Lunch
25 Feb 2008 News Round Up
25 Feb 2008 Perpetual appoints two new advisers
25 Feb 2008 Book: Lost Property - 20th Anniversary Edition
23 Feb 2008 It's not advisers who need regulating
22 Feb 2008 Business owners report low KiwiSaver uptake
22 Feb 2008 Cover Notes
22 Feb 2008 Commission coming to check advisers
22 Feb 2008 Lombard won't necessarily know of difficulties
22 Feb 2008 Blue Chip liquidators "delighted" with Bryers offer
21 Feb 2008 Interest bill for house doubled
21 Feb 2008 EUFA Roadshow
21 Feb 2008 Interest bill for house doubled
21 Feb 2008 Guardian Trust appoints business mgr Whangarei
21 Feb 2008 Minister open-minded to Adviser bill changes
21 Feb 2008 Housing market is swinging in buyers' favour: survey
21 Feb 2008 North Canterbury property in demand
20 Feb 2008 Advisers beware
20 Feb 2008 Pressure building on Blue Chip
19 Feb 2008 GS JBWere appoint head of asset management
19 Feb 2008 Walker funds survive under new roof
18 Feb 2008 Numeria Finance investors get estimate of returns
18 Feb 2008 Joneses' liquidation put down to cash shortage
18 Feb 2008 The PAA Roadshow
18 Feb 2008 News Round Up
18 Feb 2008 Investor confidence down
17 Feb 2008 The Joneses gone by lunchtime
16 Feb 2008 [The Landlord asks...] Is there a place for Blue Chips?
15 Feb 2008 Is there a place for Blue Chips?
15 Feb 2008 Weekly Wrap: Chipping away at investor confidence
15 Feb 2008 Down and out? Maybe not...
15 Feb 2008 Hanover responds
15 Feb 2008 Fisher loses director
15 Feb 2008 Strategic reports increased interim profit
15 Feb 2008 Finance company to refund 1200 customers
15 Feb 2008 KISS principle still rules
15 Feb 2008 Absolute investors await final sentence
14 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Education – Advanced Investing
14 Feb 2008 Geneva still on creditwatch
14 Feb 2008 ISI seeks Commission approval for APB
13 Feb 2008 REINZ reveals poor January performance
13 Feb 2008 REINZ Residential commentary – January 2008
13 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Education – Best Practice Governance
13 Feb 2008 BT to focus on retail market
13 Feb 2008 ASB appoints area mgr North Island
12 Feb 2008 Quayside rate set
12 Feb 2008 Affordable housing initiatives good for investors
12 Feb 2008 Volatility abounds
12 Feb 2008 Home loan report: Volatility abounds
12 Feb 2008 St Laurence to raise up to $24.4m
12 Feb 2008 Stay focused on the long term
12 Feb 2008 [Opinion] View From a Finance Company
12 Feb 2008 ASSET - See-through advice
12 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Investing
12 Feb 2008 Govt plans to pump up housing market
12 Feb 2008 MFS looks to orderly wind up
12 Feb 2008 Book: Commercial Real Estate Investor’s Guide
11 Feb 2008 MFS - what a mess
11 Feb 2008 Riding the Global Credit Crunch and Commodities Boom
11 Feb 2008 Market Review: February 2008 commentary
11 Feb 2008 News Round-Up
11 Feb 2008 Russell's Australasian man move to US HO
11 Feb 2008 Property prices could go backwards: QV
11 Feb 2008 QV commentary shows Wellington still on top
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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