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January 2007
30 Jan 2007 December Statistics Reflect a Steady Year for Building
30 Jan 2007 Making super portable
30 Jan 2007 Advisers first to win trans-Tasman recognition
29 Jan 2007 Speech: Delivering sound and innovative financial services for New Zea
29 Jan 2007 News Round Up
26 Jan 2007 Key Macro Themes for 2007
26 Jan 2007 Liontamer adds marketing manager
26 Jan 2007 Savage steps down from AMP Capital
25 Jan 2007 Bollard holds rates steady but a March hike looks certain
25 Jan 2007 Bollard holds rates steady but a March hike looks certain
25 Jan 2007 OCR announcement
25 Jan 2007 OCR stays at 7.25%
24 Jan 2007 OCR review due
24 Jan 2007 Investor confidence rises to record level
24 Jan 2007 Investor confidence at record highs
24 Jan 2007 Warning to homeowners on mortgage payments
23 Jan 2007 UK listed trusts have good year
23 Jan 2007 Two more BDMs at Bridgecorp
23 Jan 2007 Tax breaks for health insurance pushed
22 Jan 2007 Unaffordable housing a Government failure: survey
22 Jan 2007 Appointment to Board of Guardians of Super Fund
22 Jan 2007 Residential property market continues to exceed expectations
22 Jan 2007 News Round Up
21 Jan 2007 Delays in regulation OK
21 Jan 2007 Close call on rates this week
19 Jan 2007 Billboard bylaw changes diminish property values
19 Jan 2007 The Investment Store grows
19 Jan 2007 Investors attracted to ETFs
18 Jan 2007 Bond Bonds get S&P rating
18 Jan 2007 Problems found in KiwiSaver law
18 Jan 2007 Problems found in KiwiSaver law
17 Jan 2007 International forces driving rate increases
17 Jan 2007 International forces driving rate increases
17 Jan 2007 Adviser regs get bumped to 2009
16 Jan 2007 MFS appoints new BDM
16 Jan 2007 KiwiSaver take up rates expected to be higher than forecast
15 Jan 2007 Steady growth in residential property values
15 Jan 2007 Census reveals falling homeownership rate
15 Jan 2007 A not so Ho-Hum announcement
15 Jan 2007 News Round Up
12 Jan 2007 ASB and Kiwibank winners of mortgage market war
12 Jan 2007 Emerging markets have good December
10 Jan 2007 Dykes joins Grosvenor
10 Jan 2007 Tenancy Tribunal to launch database naming bad tenants
10 Jan 2007 2006 good year for Auckland property market
10 Jan 2007 New Zeal Mortgage Investment Gulid (NZMIG) Limited
10 Jan 2007 Quotable Value
10 Jan 2007 Rates rise over Christmas
10 Jan 2007 Northplan moves into Rotorua
10 Jan 2007 Rates rise over Christmas
10 Jan 2007 Insurance regulations conterproductive
09 Jan 2007 Orr to head up NZ Super Fund
08 Jan 2007 Evidence uncovers trustee weaknesses
08 Jan 2007 NZIT wins GPG-style tax holiday
05 Jan 2007 DP Rates - Latest News
04 Jan 2007 New rules for platforms duplication
03 Jan 2007 Absolute Capital strengthens sales team
01 Jan 2007 Gisborne comes out of the dark
01 Jan 2007 Website: Department of Building & Housing
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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