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March 2012
09 Mar 2012 Rising funding costs aren't hurting NZ banks: RBNZ
09 Mar 2012 [Weekly wrap] Life insurance confusion
09 Mar 2012 Performance fee critic's fees found wanting
08 Mar 2012 New home loan boss at Sovereign Home Loans
08 Mar 2012 Floating mortgage rate rise remote
08 Mar 2012 RBNZ: OCR statement
08 Mar 2012 New business fell in Dec qtr
08 Mar 2012 OCR update and TSB changes
07 Mar 2012 Mortgage approvals growing but nowhere near boom levels
07 Mar 2012 Maybe things are turning around
07 Mar 2012 Mortgage applications top pre-GFC/recession levels
06 Mar 2012 Fund manager talent war heats up
06 Mar 2012 Tyndall Monthly Commentary
06 Mar 2012 Devon-Brook feud over
06 Mar 2012 Sluggish mortgage growth prompts aggressive loosening of lending standards
06 Mar 2012 Loose lending on low volumes
06 Mar 2012 New Zealand fund managers 'world class'
06 Mar 2012 Advisers lukewarm on SOE floats
06 Mar 2012 Augusta plans KCL deal
06 Mar 2012 Another Ha company goes belly up
05 Mar 2012 Blue Star unlikely to meet forecasts, may breach banking covenants
05 Mar 2012 OnePath's new business declines, Sovereign's surges
05 Mar 2012 Rates round-up: March 5
05 Mar 2012 Bollard likely to hold interest rates steady
05 Mar 2012 What will the Governor do this week?
05 Mar 2012 News Round Up: March 5
05 Mar 2012 Building activity picks up from historic low
05 Mar 2012 Auckland sales soar in February but price growth muted
02 Mar 2012 Time to fix: Westpac
02 Mar 2012 Partners Life mean business with new products launch
02 Mar 2012 [Weekly wrap] OnePath to victory
02 Mar 2012 ASB's mortgage book shrinks for a seventh successive quarter
02 Mar 2012 Westpac and ASB's turn
02 Mar 2012 OnePath wins fund manager of the year
01 Mar 2012 Westpac's Dec Qtr profit surges but mortgage lending slows to a trickle
01 Mar 2012 Sluggish mortgage growth prompts agressive loosening of lending standards
01 Mar 2012 Domestic v global fixed income
01 Mar 2012 Find out how ANZ is doing
01 Mar 2012 KiwiSaver mismatch a 'massive challenge' for advisers
01 Mar 2012 Allied Farmers writes down Hanover assets further
01 Mar 2012 ANZ's mortgage book continues to shrink
01 Mar 2012 February sees leap in sales and asking price
February 2012
29 Feb 2012 TSB's mortgage book stalls, SBS's book shrinks
29 Feb 2012 Co-operative Bank's Dec Qtr profit falls, mortgage book grows
29 Feb 2012 New investor in Geneva Finance
29 Feb 2012 New bank results
29 Feb 2012 Deluded investors too smart for advice
29 Feb 2012 Apartments lead rise in housing consents
28 Feb 2012 Sam Knowles joins Partners Life
28 Feb 2012 Sam Knowles joins Partners Life
28 Feb 2012 FMA confirms mystery shopping plans
27 Feb 2012 Caring comes before knowing
27 Feb 2012 News Round Up: February 27
27 Feb 2012 Rates round-up: February 27
26 Feb 2012 Quiet start
24 Feb 2012 [Weekly wrap] TNP move creates controversy
24 Feb 2012 Kiwibank near quadruples 2Q profit, mortgage book grew
24 Feb 2012 Kiwibank offers special: Westpac cuts
24 Feb 2012 Expected rise in earthquake stress claims fails to materialise
24 Feb 2012 Expected rise in earthquake stress claims fails to materialise
23 Feb 2012 Pratley moves NZMBA resignation forward
23 Feb 2012 Kiwibank offers special: Westpac cuts
23 Feb 2012 Failed marriages create life insurance minefield
23 Feb 2012 Financial advice subsidy would mean more AFAs
22 Feb 2012 MDRT Minute: Better Appointments with Better Scripting
22 Feb 2012 TNP says it isn't out to "rape, pillage and plunder"
21 Feb 2012 One tiny cut
21 Feb 2012 Heartland's listed bonds a hold: Forsyth Barr
21 Feb 2012 Inflation expectations fall sharply
21 Feb 2012 Professional body fight brewing
21 Feb 2012 TNP plan may scupper NZMBA/PAA tie up
21 Feb 2012 IFA worried by TNP's new acronyms
20 Feb 2012 BNZ's mortgage book, profits grew strongly in December quarter
20 Feb 2012 Equitable Mortages' receivers expect to repay between 65% and 70%
20 Feb 2012 Controversial break fees gone?
20 Feb 2012 TNP launches its own professional association
20 Feb 2012 Rates round-up: February 20
20 Feb 2012 Break fees. What break fees?
17 Feb 2012 [Weekly wrap] A marriage and a divorce
17 Feb 2012 Call for govt to subsidise financial advice
17 Feb 2012 More rates down; Pratley resigns and Liberty talks
16 Feb 2012 Heartland profit near guidance; outlook more murky
16 Feb 2012 Liberty says legal action against NZF in Mike Pero Mortgages' best interests
16 Feb 2012 Pratley resigns from NZMBA
16 Feb 2012 IFA farewells FAANZ
16 Feb 2012 Sovereign says new adviser regulations hit sales in 2011
16 Feb 2012 KiwiSavers shun financial advice
16 Feb 2012 Local government bonds attract huge interest
16 Feb 2012 Liberty sues NZF
16 Feb 2012 New analyst for Tyndall
15 Feb 2012 Liberty sues NZF claiming breach of Mike Pero Mortgages JV
15 Feb 2012 Local government funder looks for $300 million
15 Feb 2012 20 hours of CPD? Yeah, right
15 Feb 2012 Fidelity Life announces new business development manager
14 Feb 2012 Sales soar 25% in January
14 Feb 2012 REINZ Regional Commentaries - January 2012
14 Feb 2012 Harbour Commentary: Reflation with risk
14 Feb 2012 Term deposits remain number one
14 Feb 2012 Advisers forced to dob in American clients
14 Feb 2012 ANZ National cut rates
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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