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January 2011
27 Jan 2011 Bollard keeps interest rates on hold
27 Jan 2011 OCR unchanged at 3%
26 Jan 2011 Newpark gets a new GM
26 Jan 2011 Finance companies adopt new rules
26 Jan 2011 Fidelity Life reduces KiwiSaver adviser force by 90%
26 Jan 2011 Partners Life applauds Klap appointment
25 Jan 2011 Milton's recipe to stop foreign takeovers
25 Jan 2011 Wellington's rental pain is Auckland's gain
24 Jan 2011 OCR preview
24 Jan 2011 News Round Up: January 23
24 Jan 2011 Rates Update: FE offers special 1yr rate
24 Jan 2011 Auckland and Tauranga top New York for unaffordable houses
23 Jan 2011 Borrowers can relax as rate rise unlikely
21 Jan 2011 Financial advisory sector expected to shrink 20%
21 Jan 2011 Now's a good time to buy a house
20 Jan 2011 RBNZ confirms 10% limit on covered bond issuance
20 Jan 2011 Perpetual Trust appoints receivers to Finance and Leasing
20 Jan 2011 Kiwibank tests the market
20 Jan 2011 IFA in partnership with NZ Funds
20 Jan 2011 QFE applications need more work
20 Jan 2011 Report reveals stark differences in rents across Auckland
19 Jan 2011 NZ Home Loans appoints new CEO
19 Jan 2011 OCR increase expectations pushed out to September
19 Jan 2011 Adviser alleges agency axed over advocacy
19 Jan 2011 Industry great passes away
18 Jan 2011 Kiwibank to make first cuts to rates for 2011
18 Jan 2011 AMP proposal for AXA “fair and reasonable”
18 Jan 2011 Shaking up the Canterbury property market
18 Jan 2011 Little optimism in wake of REINZ report
18 Jan 2011 What's happening with house prices across the regions
18 Jan 2011 Sales and median price fall in December
17 Jan 2011 Kiwibank cuts one-year rate to match floating
17 Jan 2011 News Round Up: January 17
17 Jan 2011 Heartland Bank brands align deposit rates
15 Jan 2011 New appointments continue at Tower
14 Jan 2011 Hubbard’s letter in the post - maybe
13 Jan 2011 Hubbard’s letter in the post - maybe
13 Jan 2011 Newpark replaces Ballantyne
13 Jan 2011 Bank switching easier this year
13 Jan 2011 KPMG ponders future of finance companies
13 Jan 2011 Back to business for associations
13 Jan 2011 Low sales volumes the theme for 2010 - QV
12 Jan 2011 ASB abandons Aegis sale
12 Jan 2011 TNP latest to launch mortgage broker group
12 Jan 2011 Former AA Life management start from scratch
10 Jan 2011 New life co set to go in April
10 Jan 2011 Bank switching easier with new rules
07 Jan 2011 NBDTs will need 50% more capital than banks: KPMG
06 Jan 2011 IFA revamps specialist interest groups
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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