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February 2009
13 Feb 2009 Auckland City may raise $150m selling bonds
13 Feb 2009 House sales tumbled in January
13 Feb 2009 REINZ residential highlights - January 2009
13 Feb 2009 Song of subdued values remains the same
13 Feb 2009 Where's the research?
12 Feb 2009 Home loan report: Cheap not always the easy option
12 Feb 2009 Cheap not always the easy option
12 Feb 2009 Paying pocket money makes a difference
12 Feb 2009 COMMENT: Ring-fencing rules could mean 116,000 less rentals
12 Feb 2009 [Toolbox] The Tax Files
11 Feb 2009 Info about KiwiSaver changes availible
11 Feb 2009 ING closes another fund and delays CDO fund meeting
10 Feb 2009 ING closes another fund and delays CDO fund meeting
10 Feb 2009 BNZ's asset quality under pressure
10 Feb 2009 BNZ's asset quality under pressure
10 Feb 2009 SBS adds five-year bond
10 Feb 2009 AXA makes play for Gould but game still on
10 Feb 2009 Health cover up as markets go down
10 Feb 2009 Sovereign scores Best mark
09 Feb 2009 PIS Strategic Planning Feedback Days
09 Feb 2009 Call for action over break fees
09 Feb 2009 News Round Up
09 Feb 2009 Moody’s downgrades Packaged Income Notes
09 Feb 2009 Tax bill delayed
09 Feb 2009 Residential highlights - January 2009
09 Feb 2009 House prices down 8.3%, affordability up
06 Feb 2009 Money at Work: Meridian Energy's Renewable Energy Notes
06 Feb 2009 Money at Work: Meridian Energy's Renewable Energy Notes
06 Feb 2009 Weekly Wrap: No retirement yet
05 Feb 2009 Mr Good News here again
05 Feb 2009 South Canterbury Finance bonds snapped up
05 Feb 2009 It's a great time to borrow
05 Feb 2009 Time for the association mega-merger?
05 Feb 2009 No retirement for old men and women, survey says
04 Feb 2009 It's a great time to borrow
04 Feb 2009 Auckland house sales, prices fell in January
04 Feb 2009 Opinion: Too good at selling life insurance?
04 Feb 2009 Kiwibank extends hand to brokers
04 Feb 2009 Newpark deal sunk by shareholder vote
04 Feb 2009 RMA changes help property investors
03 Feb 2009 Tower joins corporates seeking to tap demand for bonds
03 Feb 2009 Fonterra sets minimum rate for six-year bonds
03 Feb 2009 Dorchester to proceed with doomed liquidation vote
03 Feb 2009 Stability key for KiwiSaver providers
03 Feb 2009 KiwiSaver bright spot in funds flow
03 Feb 2009 Nothing left for Capital + Merchant investors
03 Feb 2009 New director of financial planning at Massey
02 Feb 2009 Nothing left for Capital + Merchant investors
02 Feb 2009 Meridian offers fixed-rate notes
02 Feb 2009 AIG Life changes commission structure
02 Feb 2009 Shifting of responsibilities at AXA
02 Feb 2009 News Round Up
January 2009
30 Jan 2009 Home-building approvals fall to record low
30 Jan 2009 Cheap money, cheap houses
30 Jan 2009 Investors to apply collective pressure to ING
29 Jan 2009 Bollard slashes rates citing global recession
29 Jan 2009 OCR reduced to 3.5%
29 Jan 2009 ING defends CDO funds
29 Jan 2009 Book: Living off the Smell of an Oily Rag in NZ
29 Jan 2009 OCR reduced to 3.5%
28 Jan 2009 CBS Canterbury enters wars
28 Jan 2009 Who should be the commissioner of advisers?
28 Jan 2009 Worst of downturn over: AMP
27 Jan 2009 FNZ goes for $34 million
26 Jan 2009 Wizard brokers stick together
26 Jan 2009 News Round Up
26 Jan 2009 NZ’s rising unemployment will sap housing demand, ANZ says
25 Jan 2009 Another humungous rate cut expected
23 Jan 2009 ASB PIEs all its TD rates
23 Jan 2009 MED prepares ground for commissioner
23 Jan 2009 Investors opt for safety of bricks and mortar
22 Jan 2009 NZMBA sacks its ceo
22 Jan 2009 Positive predictions for property
22 Jan 2009 Harris goes Spicers
22 Jan 2009 Liontamer back in NZ hands
22 Jan 2009 Up-market subdivision selling at mortgagee
21 Jan 2009 Home loan report: Keeping eyes open
21 Jan 2009 The money constitution
21 Jan 2009 Three new members for BT team
21 Jan 2009 Domestic bonds tops in Oz: Morningstar
21 Jan 2009 Tower has new CFO
21 Jan 2009 Home loan report: Keeping eyes open
19 Jan 2009 What does 2009 hold?
19 Jan 2009 News Round Up
16 Jan 2009 New key account manager for Tower
16 Jan 2009 ING fences off funds as CFO takes charge
15 Jan 2009 Market Review: January 2009 Commentary
15 Jan 2009 Market Review: London January 2009 Commentary
15 Jan 2009 Home sales edge higher in December, prices slip
15 Jan 2009 REINZ residential highlights - December 2008
15 Jan 2009 House prices fall 7.4% in 2008; December sales tumble
15 Jan 2009 QV value growth for December 2008
15 Jan 2009 Bought or buying investment property?
15 Jan 2009 Global speculative-grade default rate picked to soar
15 Jan 2009 Dorchester makes two GM appointments
14 Jan 2009 Home-building approvals rise in November
14 Jan 2009 More bad news for credit funds
14 Jan 2009 Opinion: Yes we can...
14 Jan 2009 Decisions looming for borrowers
13 Jan 2009 Decisions looming for borrowers
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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