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April 2025
01 Apr 2025 RBNZ does a u-turn on bank capital requirements
March 2025
31 Mar 2025 Good news for homeowners (finally)
31 Mar 2025 Pathfinder gets new shareholder
31 Mar 2025 Interest rates expected to plateau soon
30 Mar 2025 [The Wrap] CoFI starts as the regulator faces pressure
29 Mar 2025 5 ways MDRT Annual Meeting attendance demonstrates your value as a financial adviser
28 Mar 2025 NZ sharemarket up over 1.4% for week, down 6.2% for the year
28 Mar 2025 Time the only true test for outcomes-focused regulation
28 Mar 2025 Why Westpac CEO was grilled by MPs this week
28 Mar 2025 Chubb's new CFO
28 Mar 2025 Why was Westpac slow in passing on OCR cut?
28 Mar 2025 Managing Change
28 Mar 2025 3 takeaways from a recent FSCL case
27 Mar 2025 Ryman up 11% in two days
27 Mar 2025 Mosaic continues to expand
27 Mar 2025 KiwiSaver or KiwiTaxer? The changes high on adviser wishlists
27 Mar 2025 Another month, another wave of lender switchers
27 Mar 2025 Mortgage borrowers switching to new lenders continues at a steady pace
26 Mar 2025 Head of Deposit Taking
26 Mar 2025 Big day: NZX up 1.23%
26 Mar 2025 Out Now: ASSET - Financial Forecasts
26 Mar 2025 “Unacceptable and anti-competitive”: Banks under fire for slow turnarounds
26 Mar 2025 Aggregators putting the pressure on - NZFSG
25 Mar 2025 NZ sharemarket up 0.4% amid US market surge
25 Mar 2025 Time to Push Back: Why Advisers Should Demand More from Banks
25 Mar 2025 Aggregators should be pushing back on banks
25 Mar 2025 Fidelity has kept its rating in its latest annual review
25 Mar 2025 FMA sheds further light on end results focus
24 Mar 2025 Buoyant dairy sector adds cream to flat market
24 Mar 2025 Snowball turns focus to investor behaviour
24 Mar 2025 Recovery or Recession? Conflicting Signals in NZ's Economy
24 Mar 2025 Differing messages on the economy
24 Mar 2025 Passive Investing is Impassive on Valuation
21 Mar 2025 NZ sharemarket ends week down 1.2%
21 Mar 2025 TA Associates deal to buy Craigs stake clears hurdles
21 Mar 2025 Countdown to CoFI: Public awareness campaign set to launch
21 Mar 2025 Cashbacks Take Centre Stage in NZ Mortgage Wars
21 Mar 2025 Cashbacks rather an interest rates the fight for banks
21 Mar 2025 Four decades of 6-7% yearly house price growth ending
20 Mar 2025 Turnaround times for mortgage applications spin out again
19 Mar 2025 Six falls in seven days not a good look
19 Mar 2025 Alarming acceptance of liar loans
19 Mar 2025 Bonds bright spot for active managers in 24
19 Mar 2025 Non-Pharmac-funded drug insurance comes with limits
18 Mar 2025 NZ sharemarket hit lowest point in nine months
18 Mar 2025 Heartland rates changes reflect major move
18 Mar 2025 FMA files charges against former adviser
18 Mar 2025 Pinnacle doubles its NZ presence
18 Mar 2025 KiwiSaver gender gap widest in middle-age
18 Mar 2025 Harbour Outlook: An inflection point to come for earnings?
17 Mar 2025 Spark's continuing slide helps drive NZ sharemarket down 0.8%, over 7% for the year
17 Mar 2025 Obituary: Don Stewart
15 Mar 2025 [The Wrap] Just when you thought there would be less there's more.
15 Mar 2025 Sheep Sheds and Credit Spreads
14 Mar 2025 UniMed makes leadership changes
14 Mar 2025 NZ sharemarket up 0.4% after a2 Milk surg
14 Mar 2025 Kiwibank says cost of adviser business is marginal
14 Mar 2025 Passive ETFs need active consideration
13 Mar 2025 NZ sharemarket steady after Ryman completes capital raise
13 Mar 2025 How Heartland wants to help people buy a retirement village unit
13 Mar 2025 AM Update Update
13 Mar 2025 Heartland launches a bridging loan to finance retirement village purchases
13 Mar 2025 Women retiring with less but what will close the gender savings gap?
12 Mar 2025 Results don't trump uncertainty as NZ sharemarket tumbles 1.3%
12 Mar 2025 Regulations push out approvals from 1hr to 7 days; Report
12 Mar 2025 The reason why health insurance premiums are soaring
12 Mar 2025 Avanti Finance expands property team
12 Mar 2025 Don’t let big name ETF labels distract - Morningstar
12 Mar 2025 DO NOT USE Capital requirements, regulation drag on bank lending: KPMG
12 Mar 2025 A loan which could be approved in 60 mins now takes 7 days thanks to regulations
11 Mar 2025 US turmoil pulls NZ sharemarket 0.8% lower
11 Mar 2025 Turbocharge your brand
11 Mar 2025 Borrowers sticking with short-term rates - even as fixed rates drop
11 Mar 2025 Mortgages on short-term rates surged again at the beginning of the year
10 Mar 2025 NZ sharemarket starts week up 0.9% after late surge
10 Mar 2025 Opportunity knocks - the case for further asset sales.
10 Mar 2025 Booster gets new CEO
10 Mar 2025 Public health treatment going private – good news?
10 Mar 2025 Mortgage advice gone wrong? FSCL urges advisers to keep accurate records
10 Mar 2025 Advisers told not to overpromise
10 Mar 2025 KiwiSaver advice great opportunity: Bascand
10 Mar 2025 Countdown to CoFI: FMA works to complete licensing
07 Mar 2025 International winds of uncertainty blow over NZ sharemarket
07 Mar 2025 [The Wrap] The war in Ukraine and investing
07 Mar 2025 [The Wrap] The Oscars of funds management gets heckled
07 Mar 2025 Mortgage advisers battle commerce commission over new rules
07 Mar 2025 Familiar name rises to the top again
07 Mar 2025 Mortgage advisers punch-up with ComCom takes a new twist
06 Mar 2025 Making sense of Orr's resignation
06 Mar 2025 Commercial real estate in 2025: primed for recovery
06 Mar 2025 NZFSG joins up with specialist insurer
06 Mar 2025 NZ Super tips funds into private investor
06 Mar 2025 AM Update Newsletter Feedback Survey
06 Mar 2025 Longer-term mortgage rates near cycle lows
05 Mar 2025 Financial markets hate tariffs: NZX 50 down 0.5%
05 Mar 2025 Adrian Orr departs RBNZ still congratulating himself
05 Mar 2025 Orr resigns
05 Mar 2025 Small business lender goes prime
05 Mar 2025 InvestNow builds on its foundation
05 Mar 2025 Kiwibank, ASB lift mortgage market share, ANZ, Westpac lag
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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