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April 2016
21 Apr 2016 Are mortgage advisers ready to step up to AFA standards?
21 Apr 2016 Capitalising on the capital
21 Apr 2016 Fewer than 1000 complete level 5
21 Apr 2016 Law Society backs greater powers for professional associations
20 Apr 2016 Conservative funds take lead
20 Apr 2016 New insulation standards finalised
20 Apr 2016 More restrictions on the way?
20 Apr 2016 Associations' stance questioned
19 Apr 2016 Southern Cross targets younger market
19 Apr 2016 Capital price prospects
19 Apr 2016 Are more housing market curbs on the agenda?
19 Apr 2016 NZSF sells investments
19 Apr 2016 FPSB seeks directors
19 Apr 2016 Are more housing market curbs on the agenda?
19 Apr 2016 Later rather than sooner for OCR cut
19 Apr 2016 Transition RFAs to higher standard: PAA
19 Apr 2016 UDC purchase will require big capital base
19 Apr 2016 CPI shows signs of levelling out
18 Apr 2016 CPI shows signs of levelling out
18 Apr 2016 SuperCity offerings for investors
18 Apr 2016 Seven deadly sins of the policy document
18 Apr 2016 More changes at AMP Capital
18 Apr 2016 Giving inflation a chance
18 Apr 2016 TSB takes lead in two-year space
18 Apr 2016 MPs skip KiwiSaver
15 Apr 2016 Stephens: Reserve Bank probably considering other tools
15 Apr 2016 Share appoints growth manager
15 Apr 2016 Jumping into the deep end
15 Apr 2016 RBNZ lock-ups scrapped following leak
15 Apr 2016 AIA introduces new commission option
14 Apr 2016 Standard definitions might not be silver bullet
14 Apr 2016 Former RFA pledges to stop advising
14 Apr 2016 New structure brings finance grunt to Taurus
14 Apr 2016 RBNZ confirms OCR leak
14 Apr 2016 No media lock-ups for OCR following leak
14 Apr 2016 Battleground Auckland
14 Apr 2016 Two thirds of MPs are investors
14 Apr 2016 OCR - will it stay or will it go?
14 Apr 2016 Morningstar researcher departs
14 Apr 2016 Time for new way to value equities?
14 Apr 2016 Retirement calculators' assumptions questioned
13 Apr 2016 Out of the doldrums, into the fire
13 Apr 2016 Insurance rules get review
13 Apr 2016 Predicting the RBNZ's next OCR announcement a head scratcher
13 Apr 2016 Sellers' confidence soaring high
13 Apr 2016 Property market reignites
13 Apr 2016 What are your big questions?
13 Apr 2016 Companies dodging regulation a headache for FMA
13 Apr 2016 IDS to offer complaint service
12 Apr 2016 Synergy BDM to pick up international lessons
12 Apr 2016 SuperCity tracking up - again
12 Apr 2016 The rise of renters
12 Apr 2016 Advisers must save clients from themselves
12 Apr 2016 KiwiSaver key to insurance future
12 Apr 2016 Squirrel raises $3.5 million to help with expansion
12 Apr 2016 Planet considers organisations' future
11 Apr 2016 Chorus offers bonds with minimum 4.1% rate
11 Apr 2016 KiwiSaver treated like a bank account, not investment
11 Apr 2016 New shareholders may help Kiwibank
11 Apr 2016 Advisers misusing wholesale definition
11 Apr 2016 Heartland gives Harmoney extra backing
11 Apr 2016 A fund manager fee conundrum
11 Apr 2016 Code Standard 1 – is the bar high enough?
11 Apr 2016 Rental market on the rise
09 Apr 2016 Share sale may help Kiwibank get back market share
09 Apr 2016 [VIDEO] Paul Fuller tells mortgage advisers what life's like as an AFA
08 Apr 2016 Harbour expands investment operations team
08 Apr 2016 Perils of dodging due diligence
08 Apr 2016 Verhaart joins GMI
08 Apr 2016 Verhaart joins GMI
08 Apr 2016 Due diligence: how to avoid disaster
08 Apr 2016 Kiwi accountants not planning to follow Australian lead into financial advice
08 Apr 2016 IFSO on membership drive
07 Apr 2016 Supply boost to have limited market impact
07 Apr 2016 FSC and Workplace Savings get together (sort of)
07 Apr 2016 IFA recognises Jennings' achievements
07 Apr 2016 New adviser group launched
07 Apr 2016 New dealer group reveals goals
07 Apr 2016 Brighter future for property owners
07 Apr 2016 End of Super City's downward trend?
07 Apr 2016 China's next export: Inflation?
07 Apr 2016 Triplejump franchises set up independent firm
06 Apr 2016 National values up, Auckland values down
06 Apr 2016 NZ Post sells Kiwibank stake
06 Apr 2016 Kepa to offer more focused support, faces new competition in market
06 Apr 2016 When to worry about meth
06 Apr 2016 Milford appoints director
06 Apr 2016 Interesting comings and goings with dealer groups
06 Apr 2016 Another building society moves
05 Apr 2016 SIL and MFL stop taking new members
05 Apr 2016 Life after Jennings 'business as usual'
05 Apr 2016 Affordability improvement will be short-lived
05 Apr 2016 Greens' Kiwibank stance criticised
05 Apr 2016 Kepa home loans boss steps down
05 Apr 2016 Limited supply pushes prices up
05 Apr 2016 Squirrel offer open to public
05 Apr 2016 Wu: Don't expect Chinese improvement for some months
04 Apr 2016 Squirrel offer open
04 Apr 2016 Safe as houses
04 Apr 2016 Demand driving regional prices
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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