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April 2018
18 Apr 2018 Quotemonster branches into advice
18 Apr 2018 [GRTV] The future of insurance commissions
18 Apr 2018 Kepa takes stake in member business
18 Apr 2018 Tenant damage liability: the Select Committee speaks
18 Apr 2018 [Opinion] RFAs missing in action
18 Apr 2018 NZ Funds launches latest fintech tool for advisers
18 Apr 2018 Regan: AMP's conduct unacceptable
18 Apr 2018 [GRTV] KiwiSaver
17 Apr 2018 FMA ponders PDS in Te Reo
17 Apr 2018 Super City market stagnates
17 Apr 2018 Huxford keen to stay in ANZ role
17 Apr 2018 Time to get climbing?
17 Apr 2018 The Code – issues for advisers (Part One)
16 Apr 2018 What's a Comm Games gold medal (or two) worth?
16 Apr 2018 Rent rise no surprise
16 Apr 2018 Core Finance relaxes lending criteria
16 Apr 2018 Invercargill property magnate
16 Apr 2018 Partners records best year ever
16 Apr 2018 [GRTV] Special Episode: Minister discusses adviser reforms, commission and KiwiSaver
16 Apr 2018 [GRTV] Faafoi responds to CWG criticism
16 Apr 2018 Low turnout doesn't mean RFAs' heads in sand: Group
13 Apr 2018 Wealth Technologies challenges for NZX
13 Apr 2018 Mortgage advisers need to address the code
13 Apr 2018 Auckland shortage to get worse
13 Apr 2018 Goppy returns
13 Apr 2018 Millennials turn to Kiwisaver for home deposits
13 Apr 2018 Accuro disrupted
13 Apr 2018 Two week lull ends
13 Apr 2018 Fees eroding risk premium: Researchers
12 Apr 2018 RBNZ: new PTA an “evolution”
12 Apr 2018 Code proposals 'baloney'
12 Apr 2018 IFA member takes BDM role
11 Apr 2018 ANZ increases servicing rate for loans
11 Apr 2018 Buyer demand cooling
11 Apr 2018 Time to talk tax
11 Apr 2018 Investors: PDS still too complicated
11 Apr 2018 Fidelity: Incentives regime changing
10 Apr 2018 Make commission details publicly available: MBIE
10 Apr 2018 Make commission details publicly available: MBIE
10 Apr 2018 Opportunities in SuperCity CBD market lull
10 Apr 2018 SME owners lack income protection
10 Apr 2018 Pie Funds plans to extend advice team
10 Apr 2018 Multilingual adviser joins top firm
10 Apr 2018 Electronic loan lodgement inches close
10 Apr 2018 Bank mortgage adviser joins Auckland team
10 Apr 2018 First woman president for NZPIF
10 Apr 2018 NZ Funds: Cheaper might mean less responsible
10 Apr 2018 Warning: Time crunch coming for advice sector
10 Apr 2018 Claims – the case for applying
10 Apr 2018 FMA lacking ability to fine
09 Apr 2018 Tech firm to visit NZ ahead of electronic lodgement launch
09 Apr 2018 New head of group risk for Fidelity Life
09 Apr 2018 Don’t neglect tenant safety
09 Apr 2018 Meth contamination demystified
09 Apr 2018 Milford sees more opportunities in NZ market
09 Apr 2018 Overrides' future hazy
06 Apr 2018 The Wrap: Unofficial QSMs; Formal CWG complaint lodged: Will anyone follow AMP?
06 Apr 2018 [Opinion] Let’s embrace the spotlight and talk about trust
06 Apr 2018 NZ customers more "satisfied" with local banks
06 Apr 2018 ANZ: first time buyers are back
06 Apr 2018 New business development manager for Consilium
06 Apr 2018 Mortgage brokers expanding
06 Apr 2018 No complaints about working group
05 Apr 2018 New appointment to lead Pinnacle
05 Apr 2018 SuperCity March sales at 8 year low
05 Apr 2018 AMP: No more overseas trips
05 Apr 2018 City markets take value growth hit
05 Apr 2018 Simplicity wades into Smartshares territory
05 Apr 2018 QSM not getting royal welcome yet
04 Apr 2018 Landlords top property managers for tenants
04 Apr 2018 Financial Advice NZ quality mark outlined
04 Apr 2018 Inflation erodes growth and confuses the outlook
04 Apr 2018 Hear them roar
04 Apr 2018 Latest house prices; TSB gets sharp; Last call
04 Apr 2018 Regions outshine main centres
03 Apr 2018 New chair for FSCL
03 Apr 2018 nib joins up with FSC
03 Apr 2018 Synergy adds portfolios
03 Apr 2018 [Opinion] Four simple steps to a new code
03 Apr 2018 Wide variation in stress testing thresholds
03 Apr 2018 More property tax changes coming
03 Apr 2018 South Auckland growth imminent
03 Apr 2018 Adviser pays $30k after relationship 'breaks down'
02 Apr 2018 Rabo's fund man follows the money
02 Apr 2018 CWG on a 'witch hunt
02 Apr 2018 Smartshares offers new KiwiSaver fee solution
March 2018
29 Mar 2018 Bank of China gains New Zealand branch license
29 Mar 2018 No more negative gearing
29 Mar 2018 Fisher Funds adds a new portfolio manager
29 Mar 2018 Auckland densification boosts consents
29 Mar 2018 Brightline test extended; Property investors a little more active
29 Mar 2018 Online solutions aid compliance
29 Mar 2018 India an untapped opportunity: Manager
28 Mar 2018 Gong for KiwiWealth
28 Mar 2018 Churn battle: Ballantyne v Everitt
28 Mar 2018 CGT by stealth
28 Mar 2018 ANZ investments head stepping down
28 Mar 2018 The problem with interest-only; CWG feedback wanted
28 Mar 2018 Ballantyne responds to FMA churn report
28 Mar 2018 Asteron Life gives advisers SME boost
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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