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April 2016
04 Apr 2016 We have a new one-year rate leader
04 Apr 2016 Cut to boost or hike to slow?
04 Apr 2016 Stretched equities make absolute funds appeal: Managers
04 Apr 2016 China's global importance
01 Apr 2016 Rob Tucker takes on new role
01 Apr 2016 Rob Tucker takes on new role
01 Apr 2016 Advisers help change behaviour, not just sell a product
01 Apr 2016 Reserve Bank's 'fine balance'
01 Apr 2016 Look to the regions
01 Apr 2016 Get smart
01 Apr 2016 Where is the line for 'disrepute', IFA asks
March 2016
31 Mar 2016 New kid on the block
31 Mar 2016 New business to offer online compliance help
31 Mar 2016 Investment planner pleads guilty
31 Mar 2016 Focus on affordability grows
30 Mar 2016 Mistake to overlook due diligence
30 Mar 2016 Construction on the rise
30 Mar 2016 BNZ moves one-year Special lower
30 Mar 2016 Southern Cross launches life insurance
30 Mar 2016 Pie funds' KiwiSaver plans on hold
30 Mar 2016 Pie funds' KiwiSaver plans on hold
30 Mar 2016 Wellington South: Positively diverse
29 Mar 2016 New kid on the block
29 Mar 2016 Verhaart leaving AMP Capital
29 Mar 2016 Kiwibank takes aim at two-year term
29 Mar 2016 'Disappointed' PAA boss says advisers support missive
29 Mar 2016 Australasia one single housing market
26 Mar 2016 Squirrel offer may go public
25 Mar 2016 Getting better building information
24 Mar 2016 GFS plans to expand
24 Mar 2016 RBNZ to investigate alleged OCR leak
24 Mar 2016 Reverse mortgage growth moving forward
24 Mar 2016 Fund manager to lose PIE status
24 Mar 2016 Investor lending picks up
24 Mar 2016 Apartment takeover
24 Mar 2016 Advisers criticised for no-show
24 Mar 2016 Quirk leaving Milford role
24 Mar 2016 Young people holding back from buying
24 Mar 2016 Sovereign adviser re-engagement gets off to good start
24 Mar 2016 AMP offers insurance deal to stem flow of customers to bank KiwiSaver schemes
24 Mar 2016 Lifetime boss hopes momentum will grow
24 Mar 2016 Trip cut-offs changed
24 Mar 2016 Housing supply tax fears eased
23 Mar 2016 New dawn for Springpark
23 Mar 2016 Westpac and Co-Op banks move rates
23 Mar 2016 Advisers slow to file renewals
23 Mar 2016 Cutting through the red tape
22 Mar 2016 Housing risk with lower OCR – S&P
22 Mar 2016 Unit rents lead the way
22 Mar 2016 New boss for Aegis
22 Mar 2016 ASB forecasts 1.75% OCR
22 Mar 2016 Suitability tool launched
22 Mar 2016 Harmoney puts brakes on secondary market
22 Mar 2016 Court battle costs broker everything
22 Mar 2016 Property dreams on ice
21 Mar 2016 MBIE to reveal submissions
21 Mar 2016 More OCR cuts to come - ASB
21 Mar 2016 ANZ inches up the league table with fixed rate pricing cuts
21 Mar 2016 BNZ signs up second dealer group
21 Mar 2016 Higher standards for RFAs a must for financial advice 'profession'
21 Mar 2016 Migration defies forecasts
18 Mar 2016 Comparing selected banks
18 Mar 2016 Comparing lenders
18 Mar 2016 PI cover: More cost - any benefit?
17 Mar 2016 Shortlist for state house sales
17 Mar 2016 BNZ finally move
17 Mar 2016 [Updated] JMIS gets most of the Sovereign money
17 Mar 2016 Kepa not keeping regional roles
17 Mar 2016 Registering property to get easier
16 Mar 2016 Mortgage fraudster gets jail time
16 Mar 2016 Dairy downturn's impact on bank profits
16 Mar 2016 Playing the man not the ball
16 Mar 2016 No role for politicians in OCR uproar - experts
16 Mar 2016 Which banks are the most generous?
16 Mar 2016 AMP Capital to offer direct investment
16 Mar 2016 Churn report due in mid-2016
16 Mar 2016 Auckland’s summer holiday over
16 Mar 2016 Remove barriers to earthquake proofing
16 Mar 2016 Dropout to young success
15 Mar 2016 ANZ under scrutiny
15 Mar 2016 Hotchin gets leave to appeal
15 Mar 2016 Playing the ball not the man
15 Mar 2016 Looming impact of global funding costs
15 Mar 2016 Roboadvice is coming
15 Mar 2016 Where are the RFAs?
15 Mar 2016 Observing health & safety on site
14 Mar 2016 Developer under SFO investigation
14 Mar 2016 Inflation key for interest rates
14 Mar 2016 Property sound investment for retirement - APIA
14 Mar 2016 OCR cut fuel for housing fire
14 Mar 2016 Senior Trust latest licenced manager
14 Mar 2016 ASB cuts fixed rates
14 Mar 2016 Squirrel exceeds target
14 Mar 2016 Thomas to step down from FMA
13 Mar 2016 ANZ issues bonds
11 Mar 2016 Squirrel secondary market approved
11 Mar 2016 AIA makes appointments
11 Mar 2016 McGuffie charges dismissed
11 Mar 2016 Full OCR cut should be passed on: McLachlan
11 Mar 2016 Regions hot for house sales
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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