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February 2023
17 Feb 2023 Holding back OCR wrong response to cyclone - economists
17 Feb 2023 Q4 triage for last year’s KiwiSaver carnage
16 Feb 2023 Skellerup shares dive while delivering record first-half
16 Feb 2023 Calls to pause OCR hikes; New BDM at FMT
16 Feb 2023 Kiwibank says RBNZ should pause OCR hikes
16 Feb 2023 Thrive and survive in year of challenges
16 Feb 2023 First Mortgage Trust appoints new BDM as they continue to grow in the South Island
16 Feb 2023 FMA finalises document for regulatory returns
15 Feb 2023 ASB's numbers are in; What's happening on Feb 28?
15 Feb 2023 Ryman capital raising surprises market amidst earnings season
15 Feb 2023 ASB pushes up its earnings
15 Feb 2023 AIA adds new Vitality Coach
15 Feb 2023 Consensus reached on slight falls in inflation
15 Feb 2023 InvestNow takes aim at Mindful Money
14 Feb 2023 New player says its gaining ground
14 Feb 2023 Vulcan Steel result drives share price plummet
14 Feb 2023 Did you know about CCCFA relief?
14 Feb 2023 Invoice finance firm adds sales manager
14 Feb 2023 House sales plummet to lowest ever
14 Feb 2023 Small CCCFA relief to relief to storm victims
14 Feb 2023 Any sign house price drops are stabilising is fiction
14 Feb 2023 Private market PIE funds coming
14 Feb 2023 MDRT’s two year focus on growth
14 Feb 2023 Rents higher under property managers
14 Feb 2023 Australian rules an “impediment” to giving financial advice – report
13 Feb 2023 10 top tips to survive 2023 (and prosper)
13 Feb 2023 NZ market falls as earnings season kicks off
13 Feb 2023 How landlords can survive the cost of living crisis
12 Feb 2023 New head of Oz equities at Pie
12 Feb 2023 The global inflation bogeyman slips away
10 Feb 2023 NZ King Salmon shares bounce up almost 10%
10 Feb 2023 Property investor comeback not likely for a while
10 Feb 2023 Tenancy Tribunal slices rent increase
10 Feb 2023 Recommending products without expert research - new Code guidance
09 Feb 2023 Take the cash
09 Feb 2023 NZ market doesn't like Mainfreight's update
09 Feb 2023 Selling more insurance in a economic slowdown
09 Feb 2023 Advisers told to make disclosure easy
09 Feb 2023 Not the time for rent freeze calls
09 Feb 2023 Helping to scale the coming interest rate rate cliff
08 Feb 2023 Freightways edges up on ASX-listing plans
08 Feb 2023 Advisers not smothered in red tape: Minister; Resimac's new fixed rates
08 Feb 2023 Financial services not smothered in red tape: new Minister
08 Feb 2023 Construction costs rise expected in wake of floods
08 Feb 2023 Asteron Life delivers "great result'
08 Feb 2023 Will Election 2023 have an impact on property market activity?
08 Feb 2023 Nikko boss to return to the UK
08 Feb 2023 The sad reality of the local benchmarking scene
07 Feb 2023 Earnings season countdown begins as RBA hikes 25 basis points
07 Feb 2023 Resimac says its new fixed rates offer relief for specialist borrowers
07 Feb 2023 Mint appoints head of distribution
07 Feb 2023 Financial advisers told not to rush on CPD credits
03 Feb 2023 Industry must share the blame for CCCFA failures: Minister
03 Feb 2023 New commerce minister blames industry for CCCFA
03 Feb 2023 NZ shares edge up as market positivity continues
03 Feb 2023 Sharesies restructure announced
03 Feb 2023 From the courtroom to the trading floor
03 Feb 2023 Crystal ball gazing into 2023
02 Feb 2023 Home loan rate pricing gets interesting
02 Feb 2023 Slow 2023 start to residential market
02 Feb 2023 NZ dollar jumps almost one US cent following Fed hike
02 Feb 2023 Insurer offers support for customers
02 Feb 2023 Asteron Life’s reminder of insurance support and flexibility in trying times
02 Feb 2023 Investors are aware of crucial role in climate change but need help
02 Feb 2023 Falling mortgage business – Centrix
02 Feb 2023 InvestNow pick ‘n mix a value-add opp for advisers
01 Feb 2023 NZ market jumps up ahead of Fed decision tomorrow
01 Feb 2023 NZ market jumps up ahead of Fed decision tomorrow
01 Feb 2023 Interest rate peak maybe closer than previously expected
01 Feb 2023 Some interest rate relief forecast
01 Feb 2023 Hamilton adviser aims to get more people covered for health issues
01 Feb 2023 Five tips for new property investors’ success
01 Feb 2023 Botica to depart FMA
January 2023
31 Jan 2023 Duncan Webb gets key commerce portfolio
31 Jan 2023 NZ market in waiting mode as investors wait for central banks' decisions
31 Jan 2023 One change could help renters’ cost of living crisis
31 Jan 2023 Fund manager of the year shortlist
30 Jan 2023 Impact of Friday's flooding felt on share market
30 Jan 2023 Home loans rates not kept up with OCR increases; Go figure this latest home loan rate change
30 Jan 2023 Home loans rates not keep up with OCR increases
30 Jan 2023 Tips for landlords to get through the Auckland flooding
28 Jan 2023 Salt strategises the year ahead
27 Jan 2023 Ryman Healthcare ends week up 18%
27 Jan 2023 [The Wrap] FMA bares its teeth
27 Jan 2023 The fallout at QuayStreet starts
27 Jan 2023 Bigger nuts for squirreling your money away
27 Jan 2023 Yield curve: Jan 27
27 Jan 2023 The FMA's plans for this year; See our cool graph
27 Jan 2023 Here's what you can expect from the FMA this year
27 Jan 2023 Mortgage industry given reassuring words on coming recession
26 Jan 2023 NZ tech stocks have a mixed day
26 Jan 2023 Rent increases slow
26 Jan 2023 Smartshares CEO steps down
26 Jan 2023 FSC urges Hipkins to take another look
25 Jan 2023 NZ market edges up as CPI data remains stable
25 Jan 2023 Inflation stays high worries economists
25 Jan 2023 Inflation worries economists
25 Jan 2023 Why is it so hard to know how many people have life insurance?
25 Jan 2023 Southern Cross confirms funding for medicinal cannabis consultations for most policyholders
25 Jan 2023 Inflation stays high - Stats NZ
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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.
2 weeks 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