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February 2017
24 Feb 2017 Decline in foreign buyers - LINZ
24 Feb 2017 Time for fundamental allocation rethink
23 Feb 2017 Correction on the cards?
23 Feb 2017 Moving forward on meth contamination
23 Feb 2017 Sales versus advice distinction 'lost'
22 Feb 2017 FMA asks for client files
22 Feb 2017 Wild ride over for Auckland
22 Feb 2017 Private Wealth Advisers adds to team
22 Feb 2017 Pie Funds relaunches global fund
21 Feb 2017 Fears over building industry capacity
21 Feb 2017 One case in 10 related to advisers: FMA
21 Feb 2017 Gaynor: Role change part of succession plan
21 Feb 2017 KiwiSaver popularity brings attention to 'second-order' problems
20 Feb 2017 nib boosts profit
20 Feb 2017 Outlook for house prices
20 Feb 2017 Price growth expectations slump
20 Feb 2017 No more agents but not everyone impressed
20 Feb 2017 Profits down for Kiwibank
19 Feb 2017 Three property trading rules you must know
18 Feb 2017 Top 20 Super City hotspots
17 Feb 2017 MJW makes statements available
17 Feb 2017 Financial Advisers Act changes released
17 Feb 2017 Partners rejoins FSC
17 Feb 2017 Deals for investors and owner occupiers
17 Feb 2017 Ultra-conservative advice approach may harm junior boards
17 Feb 2017 The Gen Y approach to investing
16 Feb 2017 Changes at top of ASB
16 Feb 2017 Gaynor steps aside at Milford
16 Feb 2017 Sovereign: Don't wait for law to change
16 Feb 2017 IFA/PAA conference registrations open
16 Feb 2017 Looking beyond the Airbnb glitter
16 Feb 2017 Synergy takes pension transfers
16 Feb 2017 First thoughts on a new adviser association
16 Feb 2017 RESIMAC offers investors discounted rates
16 Feb 2017 Insurers ponder cover for retirees
16 Feb 2017 Banks split on demand for personalised advice
16 Feb 2017 Volatility leads to tighter lending environment
16 Feb 2017 Fraud charges for development project
15 Feb 2017 ASB pulls pricing lever on home loans
15 Feb 2017 ASB happy with Aegis
15 Feb 2017 Regional stars' sales plummet: TSB raises rates
15 Feb 2017 Regional stars' sales plummet
15 Feb 2017 'Sales and advice' one of FMA's risk priorities
14 Feb 2017 Urban Development Authorities on the way
14 Feb 2017 First thoughts on a new adviser association
14 Feb 2017 Slow growth for Auckland rents – B&T
14 Feb 2017 NZX platform gains momentum
14 Feb 2017 A few little changes today: House prices fall further
14 Feb 2017 Lack of awareness on AML
14 Feb 2017 Fund manager finalists revealed
14 Feb 2017 More Kiwis take out health insurance
14 Feb 2017 Super City's prices drop further
13 Feb 2017 Is that really advice?
13 Feb 2017 Court rules against Unitary Plan zoning appeals
13 Feb 2017 Supply just one market driver
13 Feb 2017 ANZ reverses trend
13 Feb 2017 Retirement Income Group gets former finance minister on its board
13 Feb 2017 Financial Advice feedback 'vast'
13 Feb 2017 Australian fund manager opens doors to NZ
11 Feb 2017 More clarification needed on tenant damage
10 Feb 2017 Banks to clamp down on cashbacks
10 Feb 2017 Tenant damage ruling overturned
10 Feb 2017 Debt-to-income ratios on hold...for now
10 Feb 2017 Top 30 suburbs with undervalued houses
10 Feb 2017 IRD signals GST-free fees
10 Feb 2017 Sovereign launches loyalty programme
10 Feb 2017 Banks of the future may offer customers less choice
09 Feb 2017 Suncorp hails life brands' growth
09 Feb 2017 Quotemonster moves to the cloud
09 Feb 2017 DTIs not needed right now - RBNZ
09 Feb 2017 Falling consent woes
09 Feb 2017 Sovereign appoints distribution boss
09 Feb 2017 AMP boosts profit, promises evolution
09 Feb 2017 OCR hike expectations premature
09 Feb 2017 Reserve Bank makes its first big OCR announcement of the year
09 Feb 2017 What the RB governor said
09 Feb 2017 Consider pre- and post-retirement advice
09 Feb 2017 OCR hike expectations premature
09 Feb 2017 What the RB governor said
08 Feb 2017 Adviser in court
08 Feb 2017 DTIs cost benefit analysis ordered
08 Feb 2017 Socially responsible investing (SRI) - Part One: the thinking behind SRI
08 Feb 2017 FMA warns on AML, won't name and shame
08 Feb 2017 Ponzi scheme alleged
08 Feb 2017 Uncertainty over future RBNZ policy
08 Feb 2017 Questions over future RBNZ policy
08 Feb 2017 Britannia launches new scheme
08 Feb 2017 Rising rent trend nationwide
07 Feb 2017 Reserve Bank Governor not seeking another term
07 Feb 2017 Reserve Bank Governor not seeking another term
07 Feb 2017 Quiet start to 2017
07 Feb 2017 FMA faced conduct criticism
06 Feb 2017 Consilium Platform grows
03 Feb 2017 Quiet start to 2017 for Super City
03 Feb 2017 China's High Stakes Tennis Match
03 Feb 2017 OCR cut not expected
03 Feb 2017 Westpac's turn
03 Feb 2017 Simplicity's growth fund posts early success
03 Feb 2017 Industry stalwart quits
03 Feb 2017 Sunny prospects, rising rates
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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