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January 2014
24 Jan 2014 Interest rates could be hard work for advisers
24 Jan 2014 Record price for lifestyle blocks
23 Jan 2014 'Hard slog for solo advisers'
23 Jan 2014 Owner-occupiers snapping up apartments
23 Jan 2014 Too soon to draw conclusions: Alexander
22 Jan 2014 Diversity key: Survey
22 Jan 2014 Advice industry changing shape
22 Jan 2014 Buyers working around rules: Harcourts
21 Jan 2014 CPI puts pressure on
21 Jan 2014 Regulatory backtrack surprises
21 Jan 2014 OnePath increases premiums
21 Jan 2014 Affordability report questioned
20 Jan 2014 Fixed interest watchlist for fixed interest investors in 2014
20 Jan 2014 Advice force ageing - is it a problem?
20 Jan 2014 Turnover dropped in December: REINZ
17 Jan 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Gearing up for strong year
17 Jan 2014 Perpetual Trust sale finalised
17 Jan 2014 Regulatory upheaval calms in 2014
17 Jan 2014 Aucklanders spend most on housing
16 Jan 2014 Video targets bank advice
16 Jan 2014 Don't skip reviews: Cortesi
15 Jan 2014 2014: The year of social media
15 Jan 2014 Wellington landlords 'in box seat'
14 Jan 2014 We want your views
14 Jan 2014 Looking ftor testers
14 Jan 2014 Housing not biggest OCR pressure: Economists
14 Jan 2014 Industry groups call for recognition
14 Jan 2014 Prices up but turnover slowing:QV
13 Jan 2014 The 2014 ETF giveaway – 6 chances to win…
13 Jan 2014 Blame the Adviser?
13 Jan 2014 FADC changes its procedures
13 Jan 2014 Overseas interest in adviser groups
13 Jan 2014 Northland baches' summer windfall
10 Jan 2014 Global market risks outlined
10 Jan 2014 Brake comes off low-deposit lending
10 Jan 2014 Warren Buffet buys annuities
10 Jan 2014 Bitcoins a precious metal alternative
10 Jan 2014 Brake comes off high-LVR lending
09 Jan 2014 Drop in fixed interest options boosting equities
09 Jan 2014 Listings down, asking price eases
08 Jan 2014 Unimed seeking higher returns
08 Jan 2014 Advisers tune up for 'rock star' year
08 Jan 2014 High-LVR lending slows
08 Jan 2014 Fewer entry-level sales reported
07 Jan 2014 Call to split interest rates
06 Jan 2014 NZ not following commission ban ... yet
06 Jan 2014 Tower unable to find buyer for remainder of life policies
05 Jan 2014 Are online apps a threat to advisers?
04 Jan 2014 Gender balance at FSC
03 Jan 2014 Lifestyle market strengthens further
01 Jan 2014 REINZ sells headquarters
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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