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March 2023
15 Mar 2023 Devon stewardship takes stance on ESG
15 Mar 2023 Mindful Money endorses ten more funds
14 Mar 2023 NZ market still in dour state post SVB fail
14 Mar 2023 Doing repairs and renovations the right way
14 Mar 2023 KiwiSaver managers making excessive profits: Stubbs
14 Mar 2023 Banks make still more money and that's official
13 Mar 2023 NZ market rallies on US banking assurances
13 Mar 2023 Buyers walking away from deals over flood risk
13 Mar 2023 Crypto exchange executive joins the FMA
13 Mar 2023 Bolton changes views on DTIs, thinks LVRs need to be wound back
13 Mar 2023 Woman gets home detention for $8.7 mill mortgage fraud
12 Mar 2023 2nd person sentenced in $8.7 million mortgage fraud case
12 Mar 2023 Cigna locks in new name
11 Mar 2023 Kiwi Wealth personnel don't feature in Fisher Funds new investment management team
10 Mar 2023 Unsettled NZ market sheds 1%
10 Mar 2023 FMA warns Du Val Capital Partners Limited over misleading investors
10 Mar 2023 Warning to Du Val over misleading investors
10 Mar 2023 Home values still nowhere near pre-pandemic levels
10 Mar 2023 Paris alignment a drawcard for investors
09 Mar 2023 ‘Listless and almost asleep’: NZ’s market waits for US jobs data
09 Mar 2023 Are banks making too much money?
09 Mar 2023 National calls for banking enquiry; Banks think it's a good idea
08 Mar 2023 Offshore sentiment drives local market
08 Mar 2023 Advisers help in the aftermath of the floods
08 Mar 2023 TAP’s evolved compliance services set to meet FAP returns
08 Mar 2023 Partners makes changes to its distribution staff
08 Mar 2023 Questions to consider before becoming a landlord
08 Mar 2023 Checking funds for gender equity near impossible
07 Mar 2023 Former Kiwi Wealth execs take over FANZ
07 Mar 2023 Turners goes up a gear as NZ market remains flat
07 Mar 2023 Record keeping tips for advisers
07 Mar 2023 Sustainability Themes
07 Mar 2023 Compensation bid fails for landlord falsely accused of using drugs
07 Mar 2023 Fidelity appoints new regulatory head
07 Mar 2023 Advisers help in the storm aftermath
07 Mar 2023 Fund managers, Mindful Money look for ways forward
06 Mar 2023 NZ market starts the week with no real direction
06 Mar 2023 One of Loan Market's top writers goes alone
06 Mar 2023 Housing market likely to reach GFC lows
06 Mar 2023 Milford adds more gongs to its growing collection
06 Mar 2023 Greenwashing case a massive warning
06 Mar 2023 Big Loan Market writer goes alone
03 Mar 2023 Investors switch focus from earnings to macro environment
03 Mar 2023 Advisers question two banks not-so secret home loan rates
03 Mar 2023 [OPINION] Ever increasing risk for property investors
03 Mar 2023 Invest like a woman
03 Mar 2023 No sense of reality in bank's low rate offers
03 Mar 2023 Severe sales slump as market hobbled by February’s extreme weather
02 Mar 2023 Centrix says more debt problems
02 Mar 2023 NZ market noticeably quieter as earnings season ends
02 Mar 2023 Wellington’s affordability lifts out of the doldrums
02 Mar 2023 Australian watchdog sues Mercer in first greenwashing case
01 Mar 2023 NZ market flat as last earnings results come in
01 Mar 2023 The effects of flooding and cyclone on housing
01 Mar 2023 More debt problems – Centrix
01 Mar 2023 Homeowners are holding back from putting their property on the market
01 Mar 2023 Call for simple KiwiSaver benchmarks to replace ‘Frankenstein constructs’
February 2023
28 Feb 2023 NZ market in good spirits as earnings season wraps up
28 Feb 2023 Profitability grows at Heartland
28 Feb 2023 How to save a business during a natural disaster
27 Feb 2023 NZ market drags lower as Michael Hill sparkles
27 Feb 2023 Provisioning for loans brings loss to Prospa
27 Feb 2023 Retail bouncing back in all main centres
27 Feb 2023 Partners Life new Medical Claims systems update
27 Feb 2023 Advisers pleased with shape of CoFI law
24 Feb 2023 NZ market focused on aged-care stocks
24 Feb 2023 CoFI guidelines: What is fair conduct; adviser training and more
24 Feb 2023 [OPINION] What to do when you are not buying property
24 Feb 2023 NZX completes QuayStreet acquisition
24 Feb 2023 Property prices doubled since 2013
24 Feb 2023 Liberty makes two new appointments
24 Feb 2023 Latest movers and shakers; More on new conduct guidelines
23 Feb 2023 Milford CEO to depart
23 Feb 2023 NZ shares edge up as deluge of results hit market
23 Feb 2023 Kiwibank reaches more advisers; OCR rise response; Time is running out
23 Feb 2023 Kiwibank boosts earnings
23 Feb 2023 Mum and dad investors selling
22 Feb 2023 Bluestone gets a new NZ head
22 Feb 2023 NZ's market flat as Ebos impresses market and Spark disappoints
22 Feb 2023 What economists think of the latest OCR hike
22 Feb 2023 [BREAKING NEWS] The RBNZ makes big OCR call
22 Feb 2023 OCR Announcement: What the Reserve Bank said
22 Feb 2023 AIA's new parental leave policy
22 Feb 2023 Record highs for rents and record drops for house prices
22 Feb 2023 Pathfinder gets into bonds - green and orange
22 Feb 2023 Many advisers tied into strict contracts
22 Feb 2023 What’s the choice?
21 Feb 2023 Market responds to 'reporting season show and tell'
21 Feb 2023 First look at new conduct rules for advisers
21 Feb 2023 First clue on how new conduct rules will impact advisers
21 Feb 2023 The benefits of regular home inspections
20 Feb 2023 The axe falls at Kiwi Wealth
20 Feb 2023 NZ shares fall as Ryman completes capital raise bookbuild
20 Feb 2023 How CoFI will affect advisers
20 Feb 2023 nib puts out half- year results
20 Feb 2023 Financial Advice NZ teams up with training provider
20 Feb 2023 House resale profits slump markedly
19 Feb 2023 AMP profit falls on declining markets
17 Feb 2023 NZ market flat as My Food Bag shares get slammed
17 Feb 2023 Curveball thrown
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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.
2 weeks 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