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February 2008
10 Feb 2008 Housing market screeching to halt
10 Feb 2008 Financing property deals getting harder
10 Feb 2008 Auckland house sales take a big hit
08 Feb 2008 Weekly Wrap: Are you ready for new laws?
08 Feb 2008 First finance company to emerge from receivership
08 Feb 2008 Macquarie buys all of Brook
08 Feb 2008 Inspection photos may breach tenants’ privacy
08 Feb 2008 Administrators to mop up Absolute mess
08 Feb 2008 Cow cockies go coastal
07 Feb 2008 KiwiSaver breaks through 400,000 barrier
07 Feb 2008 APIA calls ‘communications’ meeting
07 Feb 2008 Who do risk advisers work for?
05 Feb 2008 Central Auckland: Humming in the hub
05 Feb 2008 KiwiSaver calculator all sorted - yeah right!
05 Feb 2008 Investors pushing locals out of Murupara
05 Feb 2008 Scarlett joins AXA
05 Feb 2008 ING, PIS to offer new homes for compliance-weary advisers
04 Feb 2008 Council to issue up to $200 mill in bonds
04 Feb 2008 Finance coy failures
04 Feb 2008 Fin Coys up, banks down
04 Feb 2008 News Round Up
04 Feb 2008 Mortgage rates fall, but for how long?
04 Feb 2008 Mortgage rates fall, but for how long?
02 Feb 2008 MFS confirms payments not made
01 Feb 2008 Weekly Wrap: A focus on finance companies
01 Feb 2008 EUFA Roadshow
01 Feb 2008 NZers happy with their retirement planning: survey
01 Feb 2008 Gauges looking like a Grimm fairy tale
01 Feb 2008 Super fund loses money
01 Feb 2008 Pinnacle Life boosts 'instant' life cover
01 Feb 2008 What's happening at MFS?
01 Feb 2008 A glimmer of hope for borrowers
01 Feb 2008 MFS shares suspended in NZ
January 2008
31 Jan 2008 C+M debenture holders given bad news
31 Jan 2008 Brook's bearish view
31 Jan 2008 EUFA Roadshow
31 Jan 2008 Hanover reports cash reserves of $80 mill
31 Jan 2008 Equitable appoints new CEO
30 Jan 2008 Bonds removed from negative credit watch
30 Jan 2008 EUFA Roadshow
30 Jan 2008 Book: The Truth About Positive Cashflow Property
29 Jan 2008 EUFA Roadshow
29 Jan 2008 An election for property investors
29 Jan 2008 NZers happy with their retirement planning: survey
29 Jan 2008 Bank TD rates fall
29 Jan 2008 Ringfencing property losses on agenda again
28 Jan 2008 EUFA Roadshow
28 Jan 2008 Slow progress for mortgage auction site
28 Jan 2008 News Round Up
25 Jan 2008 Rescue plan frustrated
25 Jan 2008 Just the facts please
25 Jan 2008 EUFA Roadshow
25 Jan 2008 Another KiwiSaver fee calculator
25 Jan 2008 ING loses top executive
25 Jan 2008 Employers now want KiwiSaver to be compulsory
24 Jan 2008 EUFA Roadshow
24 Jan 2008 Bollard leaves interest rates unchanged
24 Jan 2008 OCR announcement
24 Jan 2008 The Official Cash Rate (OCR) will remain unchanged at 8.25%.
24 Jan 2008 Bank five-year rates fall
24 Jan 2008 Organise and litigate: EUFA tells investors
24 Jan 2008 Reading the OCR tea leaves
24 Jan 2008 OCR remains unchanged at 8.25%.
23 Jan 2008 EUFA Roadshow
23 Jan 2008 ASB appoints Senior bdm
23 Jan 2008 Fed slashes rate
23 Jan 2008 Harcourts takes over management of Bluechip properties
22 Jan 2008 Doesn't property look safe
22 Jan 2008 Another eventful day for MFS Australia
21 Jan 2008 EUFA Roadshow
21 Jan 2008 Book: Trusts A Kiwi Sham?
21 Jan 2008 News Round Up
21 Jan 2008 Banks only ones to change rates
20 Jan 2008 Rate rise unlikely this week
20 Jan 2008 Not a lot of good news for borrowers
18 Jan 2008 Ombudsman introduces conciliation
18 Jan 2008 Balanced ethical fund launched
18 Jan 2008 ING expands investment team
17 Jan 2008 MFS dumps name, director and calls for trading halt
16 Jan 2008 Rent yields at highest level since Feb
16 Jan 2008 Property market drop might not only be down to holidays
16 Jan 2008 REINZ Residential Highlights – December 2007
16 Jan 2008 KiwiSaver numbers pass 380,000 in first six months
16 Jan 2008 NZX puts FinanceWatch on ice
16 Jan 2008 NZX puts FinanceWatch on ice
15 Jan 2008 Dramatic changes to home loan rates
15 Jan 2008 Bond payment suspended
15 Jan 2008 Fidelity establishes risk manager role
14 Jan 2008 Book: All You Need To Know ABout Buying & Selling Your Home
14 Jan 2008 Short-term rate changes
14 Jan 2008 News Round Up
14 Jan 2008 QV commentary shows Wellington on top
14 Jan 2008 Property values cool further
11 Jan 2008 NZ Super takes alternative view of alternatives
10 Jan 2008 BNZ mortgage market share actually fell
10 Jan 2008 KiwiSaver to kill off state savings schemes
09 Jan 2008 BNZ's mortgage market share surges
09 Jan 2008 MFS extends options to buy NZ assets
08 Jan 2008 MFS reassures investors
08 Jan 2008 Significant slowdown in Auckland housing market
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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