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March 2013
01 Mar 2013 Merger complete
01 Mar 2013 LVR restrictions a bad move: Alexander
01 Mar 2013 RMA discussion 'welcome move'
February 2013
28 Feb 2013 ASB's KiwiSaver for adviser closed
28 Feb 2013 AIA's parent reports bumper profit
28 Feb 2013 Morningstar New Zealand Fund Manager of the Year 2013
28 Feb 2013 FMA reveals its focus for 2013
28 Feb 2013 Milford wins fund manager of the year
28 Feb 2013 Govt moves to cool housing market
28 Feb 2013 The problem with claims
28 Feb 2013 Low rates 'hiding mortgage stress'
28 Feb 2013 Banks ramp up competition
28 Feb 2013 Risk of property price fall: S&P
28 Feb 2013 Apartments pull building consent figures down
27 Feb 2013 Govt moves to cool housing market
27 Feb 2013 Finance sector profits booming
27 Feb 2013 Fidelity Life hooks up with global giant
27 Feb 2013 Ross collapse sparks wholesale debate
26 Feb 2013 HSBC offers home loans at 4.99%
26 Feb 2013 HSBC takes home loans below 5%
26 Feb 2013 Default status attractive: Fisher
26 Feb 2013 Spicers gets new directors
26 Feb 2013 TOWER investments sold to Fisher Funds
26 Feb 2013 First LM mortgage fund payout approaching
26 Feb 2013 Rental property still tops for Aucklanders
25 Feb 2013 KiwiSaver in plain english
25 Feb 2013 Hedge funds offered as point of difference
25 Feb 2013 IRD demand adds to Allied’s woes
25 Feb 2013 Heartland posts profit lift
25 Feb 2013 Low interest rates not giving big loan book boost
25 Feb 2013 Harbour Asset Management Special Report
25 Feb 2013 A warning to start the week; BNZ cuts
25 Feb 2013 NZFAA: Two not a crowd
25 Feb 2013 Property investors 'still confident'
23 Feb 2013 FirstChoice closed to new members
22 Feb 2013 Pressure on interest rates
22 Feb 2013 AAA grows as AXA retired
22 Feb 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Qualification debate
22 Feb 2013 Westpac specials to end
22 Feb 2013 Regional yield variations examined
21 Feb 2013 Life insurance tax changes taxing industry
21 Feb 2013 Counting advisers
21 Feb 2013 Regan on AMP's KiwiSaver merger plans
21 Feb 2013 Morningstar nominees announced
21 Feb 2013 Guardian Trust owner a takeover target
21 Feb 2013 AMP to merge KiwiSaver schemes
21 Feb 2013 Separate adviser authorisation opposed
21 Feb 2013 Partners Life launches new products
21 Feb 2013 Asteron appoints group life BDM
21 Feb 2013 Auckland growth inevitable
20 Feb 2013 Kiwibank CFO on the move
20 Feb 2013 BNZ calls in $450m of notes
20 Feb 2013 Advisers in high demand: Survey
20 Feb 2013 Battle for first home buyers
20 Feb 2013 Cancellations, policy lapses cost insurance firms
20 Feb 2013 Complexity 'helps advisers'
20 Feb 2013 Banks target first-home buyers
20 Feb 2013 BT gets a new manager from the super fund
20 Feb 2013 LVR restrictions 'could provide wealthy buyers with cheap properties'
19 Feb 2013 One problem solved for NZF
19 Feb 2013 NZF settles dispute over sale of home loan book
19 Feb 2013 RFAs should be qualified: Survey
19 Feb 2013 Investment managers proving worth: Survey
19 Feb 2013 How much is your house worth?
19 Feb 2013 "Property love affair" may not be so strong
18 Feb 2013 Superannuation Fund makes appointments
18 Feb 2013 ANZ pleased with loan growth despite profit dip
18 Feb 2013 From one group to another
18 Feb 2013 Sovereign website awaits sign-off
18 Feb 2013 Most Kiwis wary of insurance industry: Study
18 Feb 2013 Edge Mortgages leaves Newpark for another group
18 Feb 2013 Ross Asset Management liquidation committee
18 Feb 2013 $100 million for property development: NZMS
18 Feb 2013 New record price for lifestyle blocks
17 Feb 2013 We were wrong
15 Feb 2013 Giant ANZ bond issue to reset
15 Feb 2013 [Weekly Wrap] A new impost
15 Feb 2013 Capital + Merchant guilty pleas
15 Feb 2013 Home loan payments via internet banking
15 Feb 2013 ANZ: Still work to be done on KiwiSaver
15 Feb 2013 Web won’t kill adviser conferences
15 Feb 2013 Peter Rourke in new role
15 Feb 2013 Kiwibank gets aggressive in the short term
15 Feb 2013 Insurance cover change coming this year
15 Feb 2013 Solid apartments 'sought-after'
14 Feb 2013 ASB identifies potential in insurance sales
14 Feb 2013 Kiwibank's "lowest-ever" rate
14 Feb 2013 Henderson:The Bankers Investment Trust PLC – Global macro view
14 Feb 2013 Henderson: Asia an income opportunity
14 Feb 2013 Advisers fuming at AML proposal
14 Feb 2013 Survey reflects strong property market
13 Feb 2013 ASB: Focus on insurance sales
13 Feb 2013 Surprises await in application fine print
13 Feb 2013 LVR restrictions picked for Aucklanders
13 Feb 2013 AMP picks Mercer, drops Van Eyk
13 Feb 2013 Aucklanders may be hit with LVR restrictions: Poll
12 Feb 2013 New deputy for RBNZ
12 Feb 2013 Economic Insights: China data supports improving outlook
12 Feb 2013 Asteron to offer Best Doctors
12 Feb 2013 KiwiSaver gender gap concerns
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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