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April 2020
20 Apr 2020 Pre-approvals hit by Covid-19
20 Apr 2020 Pre-approvals hit by Covid-19
19 Apr 2020 Code will hold: Dale-Jones
18 Apr 2020 COMMENT: The ongoing fight for landlords’ rights
17 Apr 2020 NZ shares rise as covid-19 crater passes
17 Apr 2020 Life at level three for residential landlords
17 Apr 2020 Australian fund manager IOOF quits NZ
17 Apr 2020 Cuts to cash-back offers; Westpac makes new hire
17 Apr 2020 Westpac appoints third-party BDM in Wellington
17 Apr 2020 ANZ capital failings highlighted
16 Apr 2020 This time is different: Vidler
16 Apr 2020 FSC commits to principles
16 Apr 2020 Hardship fund for Asteron customers
16 Apr 2020 NZ shares rise as investor FOMO stokes demand for beat-up stocks
16 Apr 2020 [GRTV] ANZ Investments' CIO Paul Huxford
16 Apr 2020 Looking through the crisis? Or looking into it?
16 Apr 2020 Market timing - what a wicked idea
16 Apr 2020 More relief needed for commercial property sector
16 Apr 2020 ASSET Magazine: The Covid 19 issue
16 Apr 2020 Don't expect a buyers' market immediately
16 Apr 2020 Cuts to cash-back offers
16 Apr 2020 Markets this month and beyond
15 Apr 2020 [VIDEO] Don’t expect a buyers’ market immediately
15 Apr 2020 [VIDEO] Don’t expect a buyers’ market immediately
15 Apr 2020 Confidence returns to stocks: Vista bounces back, Refining NZ jumps on review
15 Apr 2020 What life insurers are offering your customers under Covid 19
15 Apr 2020 The Matrix Partners style; What advisers say
15 Apr 2020 Partners' customer outcomes matrix revealed
15 Apr 2020 Cigna offers new commission options
15 Apr 2020 Market strong before turbulence to come
15 Apr 2020 Trustees Executors appoints new chairman
15 Apr 2020 [Opinion] Two and two are still four
15 Apr 2020 Fears over tougher servicing tests
15 Apr 2020 Fears over tougher servicing tests
15 Apr 2020 Prospa calls for extension of business loan scheme
14 Apr 2020 Former Newpark boss 'working to support advisers'
14 Apr 2020 NZ shares close at month-high on optimism over covid-19 response
14 Apr 2020 One in five tenancies could fall into arrears
14 Apr 2020 Southern Cross members get credits
14 Apr 2020 ANZ doesn’t expect low equity problems
14 Apr 2020 ANZ doesn’t expect low equity problems
13 Apr 2020 Your guide to medical insurers' Covid 19 customer support options
12 Apr 2020 Newpark gets FAP licence
12 Apr 2020 Open Polytechnic reports surge of level five enrolments
12 Apr 2020 [Obituary] Ron Flood
11 Apr 2020 [The Wrap] The state of financial services two weeks into lockdown
11 Apr 2020 Fund update and future outlook
09 Apr 2020 Investors cash in gains to chase value elsewhere
09 Apr 2020 Penrich Capital liquidators appointed
09 Apr 2020 TMM Available now
09 Apr 2020 Fisher Funds donates meals
09 Apr 2020 Reserve Bank to monitor LVR breaches caused by Covid-19
09 Apr 2020 KiwiSaver withdrawal process 'should be easier'
08 Apr 2020 Out now: Latest issue of TMM
08 Apr 2020 Sharemarket cracks 10,000 mark
08 Apr 2020 “No access in emergency” lease clause: putting it in context
08 Apr 2020 Cigna confirms hardship policy
08 Apr 2020 Regulators have eyes on Partners Life commission
08 Apr 2020 Non-banks offer payment holidays and rate cuts
07 Apr 2020 FMA keeps close watch on Covid-19 misbehaviour
07 Apr 2020 Auckland Airport rallies after $1b placement; NZ market disconnects from offshore events
07 Apr 2020 Tenancy reform Select Committee hearings to go ahead
07 Apr 2020 Non-banks offer payment holidays
07 Apr 2020 Life remains in real estate industry
07 Apr 2020 Adviser warned over misleading Covid-19 ads
07 Apr 2020 ASB reviews Covid-19 process; Housing Corporation New Zealand/Kainga Ora rate drop
07 Apr 2020 Our $100 billion debt of gratitude
07 Apr 2020 ASB reviews Covid-19 process
07 Apr 2020 CareSaver: Active management doing what it should
06 Apr 2020 NZ shares fall as investors make way for $1b Auckland Airport placement
06 Apr 2020 Understanding rebalancing: A portfolio well invested doesn’t do things in excess
06 Apr 2020 Former AIA head of sales and distribution joins Instant Finance
06 Apr 2020 Lockdown market sentiment
06 Apr 2020 AML warnings issued
06 Apr 2020 Life and health insurance through the eyes of a pandemic
06 Apr 2020 ASB criticised over Covid-19 processing
06 Apr 2020 ASB criticised over Covid-19 processing
05 Apr 2020 Managers ramp up communication
03 Apr 2020 NZ shares rise; Tourism Holdings rallies on joint venture exit
03 Apr 2020 [WATCH] Newpark update
03 Apr 2020 How the lockdown is affecting landlords
03 Apr 2020 Payment holidays won't affect credit scores; Licensing delay could hurt overachievers
03 Apr 2020 Payment holidays won't affect credit scores
02 Apr 2020 FSLAA overachievers 'could be collateral damage'
02 Apr 2020 Southern Cross offers financial support
02 Apr 2020 After the ups; the downs
02 Apr 2020 FE Investments in receivership
02 Apr 2020 Supreme Court dismisses price-fixing appeal
02 Apr 2020 COMMENT: Making sense of it all: COVID-19, the economy & property
02 Apr 2020 Auckland market booming before lockdown
02 Apr 2020 Bank margins under pressure; Will advisers leave the industry?
02 Apr 2020 Advisers 'will drop out'
01 Apr 2020 Investors eye eventual recovery
01 Apr 2020 Bank margins under pressure: KPMG
01 Apr 2020 nib offers support package
01 Apr 2020 Mentoring role for NZFSG's Patten; Reasons to be positive
01 Apr 2020 Mentoring role for NZFSG's Patten
01 Apr 2020 Banks launch SME support loans
01 Apr 2020 Housing market: the positives
01 Apr 2020 Covid withdrawals possible 'but not always desirable'
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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