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February 2013
12 Feb 2013 Southern Cross picks insurance rebound
12 Feb 2013 Asteron gets new underwriters
12 Feb 2013 Property price rise not just about shortage: Westpac
11 Feb 2013 Lender pursues Allied over $500k loan
11 Feb 2013 Harbour Monthly Commentary: The price is right in equities
11 Feb 2013 QV stats hide big discrepancies
11 Feb 2013 Westpac cuts rates
11 Feb 2013 'Natural' to buy wealth products direct
11 Feb 2013 Milford expands team
11 Feb 2013 Has compliance knocked the insurance adviser market?
11 Feb 2013 Smith tackles development charges
08 Feb 2013 Opposition to ‘life stages’ default funds
08 Feb 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Default advice
08 Feb 2013 Yield-chasing raises concern
08 Feb 2013 Green light for rebuild
08 Feb 2013 Rents up but yields down
07 Feb 2013 Growth funds lead
07 Feb 2013 Ross couldn't keep up with withdrawals: Receivers
07 Feb 2013 FATCA 'workable' for NZ super
07 Feb 2013 Strategic breaches likely: FMA
07 Feb 2013 Prices will increase more quickly this year: Alexander
07 Feb 2013 Anyone can buy a house: NZPIF
06 Feb 2013 Bank chases wealth customers
06 Feb 2013 Win for Partners Life
05 Feb 2013 Directors plead guilty
05 Feb 2013 ASB: Tools will be used to delay OCR hike
05 Feb 2013 Dollar may hit US90c
05 Feb 2013 Infratil buying back infrastructure bonds
05 Feb 2013 Free audit insurance a first: Brokerage
05 Feb 2013 Newpark nabs Sovereign man
05 Feb 2013 Poker faces over housing
05 Feb 2013 Barfoot reports strong January sales
05 Feb 2013 No let-up in housing market for years: ASB
04 Feb 2013 Different approach to target Asian market
04 Feb 2013 Pathfinder Commentary: Portfolio protection
04 Feb 2013 Appointment to target Indian community
04 Feb 2013 Tate: Advice more important than scheme
04 Feb 2013 Fund managers call for level playing field
04 Feb 2013 Desperate buyers turn to leaky homes
03 Feb 2013 Listings can't keep pace with interest: Realestate.co.nz
01 Feb 2013 Tyndall Monthly Commentary: Bondholders risk euthanasia
01 Feb 2013 BNZ picks KiwiSaver launch date
01 Feb 2013 From TOWER to NIWA
01 Feb 2013 Govt: No views yet on FAA
01 Feb 2013 Default status up to Govt
01 Feb 2013 Former AFA investigated
01 Feb 2013 Henderson:The City of London Investment Trust plc
01 Feb 2013 Surge in lending growth for Kiwi banks
01 Feb 2013 [Weekly Wrap] To CPD or not to CPD?
01 Feb 2013 Commission ban 'inevitable'
01 Feb 2013 Wheeler calls for regulation reform
01 Feb 2013 Spicers loses National Investment Manager
01 Feb 2013 Fewer Kiwis leaving the country
01 Feb 2013 Apartments proposed for waterfront
January 2013
31 Jan 2013 OCR: What the economists said
31 Jan 2013 Hubbard payouts due in February
31 Jan 2013 Aussie advisers told: Commission disclosure optional
31 Jan 2013 Economists surprised by Wheeler's hawkish tone
31 Jan 2013 50% more advisers this year: Claim
31 Jan 2013 OCR on hold - as predicted
31 Jan 2013 Predictions come true
31 Jan 2013 Newland: Best option? Do nothing
31 Jan 2013 Economists surprised by Wheeler's optimistic tone
30 Jan 2013 What's an actuary worth?
30 Jan 2013 Green Party claims 'misguided'
30 Jan 2013 Fidelity GM of sales quits
30 Jan 2013 Don't get caught in social media web, advisers warned
30 Jan 2013 Director pleads guilty
30 Jan 2013 Leitch: Don't change the rules already
30 Jan 2013 Premium hike fears dismissed
30 Jan 2013 Newpark makes senior appointment
30 Jan 2013 Volatile apartments push consent figures up
29 Jan 2013 KiwiSaver buyouts a challenge for advisers
29 Jan 2013 Government questions RFAs' professionalism
29 Jan 2013 Emerging markets offer challenge, opportunity
29 Jan 2013 Tripe: Banks exposed
29 Jan 2013 OCR predictions for this week
29 Jan 2013 OCR to move this year: Economists
29 Jan 2013 Schemes benefit a lucky few
28 Jan 2013 RFA irked by CPD ‘scaremongering’
28 Jan 2013 The bittersweet experience of discovering a claim
28 Jan 2013 Shearer: No $300k houses in Auckland
25 Jan 2013 New job for ex-Tower Health boss
25 Jan 2013 Anderson a leader in insurance space
25 Jan 2013 [Weekly wrap] Conference controversy
25 Jan 2013 Is profit part of CPD?
25 Jan 2013 Greens' scheme slammed
25 Jan 2013 Rising rents next on politicians' agenda
24 Jan 2013 Integration creates insurance-specific CRM
24 Jan 2013 BNZ scheme may bring bank sales issue to a head
24 Jan 2013 IFA conference planning criticised
24 Jan 2013 Housing market heat infectious: ANZ
24 Jan 2013 Green Party calls for stricter tenancy laws
23 Jan 2013 Emerging markets show long-term gain
23 Jan 2013 Market surge sparks bubble warning
23 Jan 2013 Forex broker charged
23 Jan 2013 High-profile courses cancelled
23 Jan 2013 Humiliation for Heatley
22 Jan 2013 Bumper year for KiwiSaver growth funds
22 Jan 2013 Sovereign gets a new CEO
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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