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April 2012
10 Apr 2012 News Round Up: April 10
10 Apr 2012 Time to promote a new social norm for life insurance
09 Apr 2012 One for interest rate watchers
05 Apr 2012 NZF Money's receivers sue, allege insolvent transaction
05 Apr 2012 KiwiSaver default provider system slammed
05 Apr 2012 Bridgecorp directors found guilty
05 Apr 2012 Bridgecorp directors found guilty
05 Apr 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Commissions and convictions
05 Apr 2012 Structural problems with retirement products
05 Apr 2012 Auckland sales hit five year peak in March
04 Apr 2012 PAA's (not so) new people
04 Apr 2012 Harbour:The methadone approach to market recovery
04 Apr 2012 HSBC has a tough last quarter
04 Apr 2012 Govt slow to close adviser loophole
03 Apr 2012 HSBC suffers ballooning bad debt charges, mortgage book shrinks
03 Apr 2012 Bank debt issues could be raging buys
03 Apr 2012 Partners Life gets a rating
03 Apr 2012 Allied Farmers granted another year's life by finance coy receivers
03 Apr 2012 Commission ban back on Govt agenda
03 Apr 2012 The fix v float debate continues
02 Apr 2012 Tyndall: The global economic tour
02 Apr 2012 Fund managers start to favour China
02 Apr 2012 Slow all around
01 Apr 2012 Credit growth minimal again in February
March 2012
30 Mar 2012 [Weekly wrap] Questions about KiwiSaver advice
30 Mar 2012 Sovereign hit hard by commission fraud
30 Mar 2012 Housing consents down in February
29 Mar 2012 Rod Templeton to leave Mortgage Link, won't be replaced
29 Mar 2012 Fidelity Income Protection
29 Mar 2012 Hujich family sells NZF Group shares
29 Mar 2012 Support and criticism for Cigna move from unlikely sources
29 Mar 2012 Adviser exodus smaller than expected
28 Mar 2012 NZF likely to convert its $18m capital notes to equity
28 Mar 2012 Fine line between 'information' and 'advice'
28 Mar 2012 Development obstacles helping push rents up
28 Mar 2012 Nationwide home affordability improves
27 Mar 2012 Rates quiet; activity increasing
27 Mar 2012 Another plus one for Plus4
27 Mar 2012 Aon selling KiwiSaver through RFAs
27 Mar 2012 Rise, stall then fall predicted for house prices
26 Mar 2012 Aon selling KiwiSaver through RFAs
26 Mar 2012 Rates round-up: March 26
26 Mar 2012 AFAs the winners in fee debate
25 Mar 2012 Did the ISI/FSC miss an opportunity?
23 Mar 2012 [Weekly wrap] Bad news for QROPS providers
23 Mar 2012 SFO investigating NZF Group
23 Mar 2012 More on fixed v floating
22 Mar 2012 Aussie researcher making inroads in NZ
22 Mar 2012 Another adviser joins Perpetual
22 Mar 2012 Consolidation in financial planning market
22 Mar 2012 Auckland suburbs buck nationwide static price trend
21 Mar 2012 Fortress wins with Capital + Merchant; investors lose
21 Mar 2012 Final hurdle crossed
21 Mar 2012 Insurer defends online income protection
21 Mar 2012 Association deal done
21 Mar 2012 Banks rely on Aussie generosity
20 Mar 2012 Former IFA president takes new role
20 Mar 2012 NZF Money's investors likely to receive 25c to 42c in the dollar
20 Mar 2012 Catch-22 for New Zealand QROPS providers
20 Mar 2012 Catch-22 for New Zealand QROPS providers
20 Mar 2012 Three points to consider with home loans
20 Mar 2012 We didn't pay $50 per KiwiSaver member: Fisher
19 Mar 2012 To fix, float or take a third option?
19 Mar 2012 What will a 20 minute bank insurance product sale cost you
19 Mar 2012 ISO Case Studies - March 2012
19 Mar 2012 No housing boom looming: English
19 Mar 2012 Rates round-up: March 19
19 Mar 2012 'Complete lack of interest' in prospectuses
19 Mar 2012 Rental crisis hampering Christchurch rebuild
17 Mar 2012 DBH merger plans 'ideologically driven and dangerous'
17 Mar 2012 Joyce defends ‘more efficient' Super Ministry
16 Mar 2012 King calls for talks with Ministers over ‘bombshell’ DBH plans
16 Mar 2012 [Weekly wrap] End of an era
16 Mar 2012 'Complete lack of interest' in prospectuses
16 Mar 2012 Deal done - almost
16 Mar 2012 NZPIF slams ‘Super Ministry' plans
15 Mar 2012 NZMBA vote overwhelmingly in favour of PAA move
15 Mar 2012 Heartland says NZ needs greater control of its finance industry
15 Mar 2012 Still quiet - on one front
15 Mar 2012 Litigation funder 'deluged' with inquiries
15 Mar 2012 DBH to be merged into new Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
14 Mar 2012 ISI reborn as Financial Services Council
14 Mar 2012 Positive property news
13 Mar 2012 Prices up but value growth ‘very modest,' says QV
13 Mar 2012 Partners Life grows market share
13 Mar 2012 OnePath Life flattens sales team
13 Mar 2012 D Day looms for NZMBA
13 Mar 2012 February sales hit four-year high
13 Mar 2012 Broker association update
13 Mar 2012 Advice crucial for 'fringe' investments
13 Mar 2012 Mortgagee sales hit record levels
13 Mar 2012 REINZ Regional round-up
12 Mar 2012 Finally, a better answer for life and health sales
12 Mar 2012 TNP's new association makes start
12 Mar 2012 New directors for finance company manager
12 Mar 2012 Rates round-up: March 12
12 Mar 2012 Exciting start to the week
11 Mar 2012 HSBC offers lowest one year rate in a decade
09 Mar 2012 Customers not shaken, or stirred, by churn debate
09 Mar 2012 Only significant changes this week
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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