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May 2019
07 May 2019 Advice model not working, fund manager says
06 May 2019 Kumar loses court battle against former employee
06 May 2019 NZ shares fall as Trump's trade talk spooks investors; exporters fall
06 May 2019 BNZ cuts KiwiSaver fees
06 May 2019 Resimac hires new BDM
06 May 2019 Advisers may be unprepared for new regime: Johnston
06 May 2019 Fidelity Life extends campaign
06 May 2019 What is retrospective risk?
06 May 2019 COMMENT: Punishing landlords won’t solve crisis
06 May 2019 Advisers may be unprepared for new regime: Johnston
06 May 2019 Advisers ask: Is it worth it?
06 May 2019 Pie Funds expands advice
03 May 2019 Investors take profits after sharemarket hits record
03 May 2019 Kiwis confident about economy
03 May 2019 Tardy repairs earn $2000 fine
03 May 2019 Will the OCR be cut next week; How brokers helped BNZ
03 May 2019 Missed the boat? Not yet
03 May 2019 Morningstar: Fortunes turn for KiwiSaver funds
03 May 2019 Another law review proposes more changes for insurance advisers
02 May 2019 Z pumps market higher; Trade Me departs
02 May 2019 ASB: KiwiSaver bounces back
02 May 2019 AMP's NZ cash flows turn negative
02 May 2019 OCR Preview Survey: Economists predict cut
02 May 2019 BNZ banks on brokers
02 May 2019 Gone: foreign buyers leave market
02 May 2019 Mortgage advisers write more business for ANZ
02 May 2019 Market uncertainty thumps Auckland sales
02 May 2019 41% of ANZ's loans come from advisers
02 May 2019 FPSB seeks directors
02 May 2019 Gateway to returns
02 May 2019 NZ 'missed the boat' on decumulation
02 May 2019 Govt told to keep out of adviser pay
01 May 2019 Little bit of negative news takes shine of sharemarket
01 May 2019 SuperCity back to “old normal”
01 May 2019 ANZ half-year profit falls
01 May 2019 Revealed: The cost of the Code; ANZ profit falls
01 May 2019 Build your business with a trusted brand
01 May 2019 Regional value stars in slow market
01 May 2019 Revealed: How much it cost to develop the Code
01 May 2019 FSC welcomes Govt consultation
April 2019
30 Apr 2019 April another month of solid gains for sharemarket
30 Apr 2019 ASB turns to AI for data processing
30 Apr 2019 Health Funds: Strike action reinforces value of insurance
30 Apr 2019 Investor lending weak in March
30 Apr 2019 NZ Funds: No robo yet
30 Apr 2019 Too little action for too long: AFA
30 Apr 2019 IAG boosts premiums to reflect risks
29 Apr 2019 NZX rises during a quiet trading day
29 Apr 2019 Investor lending weak in March
29 Apr 2019 Mortgage advisers react to Govt's commission plans
29 Apr 2019 Advisers braced for government's financial safeguards
29 Apr 2019 High demand makes for rent rises
29 Apr 2019 Quay Street adds to team
29 Apr 2019 Rules set to get a lot tougher for many advisers
29 Apr 2019 NZX adds to ETFs menu
29 Apr 2019 Govt: Does whole industry need a 'code of practice'?
27 Apr 2019 [The Wrap] How about a Code of Conduct for Institutions? What a novel idea
27 Apr 2019 COMMENT: Why Takapuna is worth a look
27 Apr 2019 Advisers' incentives in Govt sights
26 Apr 2019 NZX50 drops below 10,000 as blue-chips fall off the pace
26 Apr 2019 Finding the Next Xero
26 Apr 2019 Consumers unsatisfied with bank advice
26 Apr 2019 The many different kinds of financial adviser
26 Apr 2019 Price wars to support property market
26 Apr 2019 Group membership won't automatically mean a licence
25 Apr 2019 Māori-owned investment and financial advisory firm aims for $1 bill mark
25 Apr 2019 [GRTV] Fear of doing Level 5 wrong reason to bail from advice industry
24 Apr 2019 NZ shares follow Wall St higher in light trading; Meridian, F&P, A2 rise
24 Apr 2019 Price wars to support property market: CoreLogic
24 Apr 2019 AIA and Sovereign close online product
24 Apr 2019 Revealed: Auckland hotspots
24 Apr 2019 With CGT gone, housing market expected to pick up
24 Apr 2019 Investor complains about waived fee
23 Apr 2019 Super Fund gets responsibility nod
23 Apr 2019 NZX50 tops 10,000, growing 284% in past decade
23 Apr 2019 Capital requirements a risk to growth: ANZ
23 Apr 2019 Innocent non-disclosure still a problem: IFSO
23 Apr 2019 Part 2: FSLAB & FADC and what it means for us RFAs
23 Apr 2019 Yield inversion not necessarily omen of recession
18 Apr 2019 [The Wrap] Singing to a New Zealand tune
18 Apr 2019 Sharemarket records 1.8% gain in a week
18 Apr 2019 New flames to fan housing market
18 Apr 2019 Trustees Executors appoints new Head of Wealth Business
18 Apr 2019 Advisers: Govt made right call on capital gains tax
17 Apr 2019 Knock, knock, knocking on the magical 10,000 mark
17 Apr 2019 Ditching CGT a win for common sense
17 Apr 2019 CGT reprieve
17 Apr 2019 KiwiSaver insight
17 Apr 2019 Industry shakeout good for mortgage advisers
17 Apr 2019 Swap keys, save sale costs
17 Apr 2019 Financial Advice NZ: Aim for 3000
16 Apr 2019 Exporters drive sharemarket higher
16 Apr 2019 Super City rental market star
16 Apr 2019 [GRTV] Mint's Rebecca Thomas in studio
16 Apr 2019 I hope you can help me fundraise $20,000 to help mend broken hearts
16 Apr 2019 Low mortgage rates vs CGT
16 Apr 2019 Something a little different today
16 Apr 2019 Risk Parity – Models and Myths
16 Apr 2019 Industry shakeout good for advisers
16 Apr 2019 'If you expect advisers to work for peanuts...'
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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