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February 2012
14 Feb 2012 Nationwide prices up but provinces see falls: QV
13 Feb 2012 Two associations to become one
13 Feb 2012 Quality commissions attract quality advisers, says Ballantyne
13 Feb 2012 News Round Up : February 13
13 Feb 2012 Rates round-up: February 13
13 Feb 2012 Chch people expecting higher interest rates
13 Feb 2012 Falling rates stimulate greater interest in fixed-rate mortgages
13 Feb 2012 Auckland and Chch housing hotspots
10 Feb 2012 Lloyd Morrison was a mentor: Carmel Fisher
10 Feb 2012 [Weekly wrap] Morrison a big loss
10 Feb 2012 Investor 'risk illiteracy' a headache for advisers
10 Feb 2012 BNZ finally joins the cuts
09 Feb 2012 Plus4 Insurance Group adds one
09 Feb 2012 Another view on the housing market
09 Feb 2012 Govt dispute resolution scheme in the gun
09 Feb 2012 Rent optimism trumps tax changes to spark investor activity
08 Feb 2012 GPG gives Tower director the boot
08 Feb 2012 RBNZ considers options to contain housing bubble
08 Feb 2012 FMA cracks down on the R word
08 Feb 2012 Bubble control
08 Feb 2012 Dispute resolution merger idea slammed
07 Feb 2012 Hewitson in new role
07 Feb 2012 HFANZ renews call for health insurance tax breaks
07 Feb 2012 Rates round-up: February 7
07 Feb 2012 A couple more cuts
07 Feb 2012 Warm Rentals Bill proposals may get landlords hot under collar
06 Feb 2012 Predictions for 2012: financial advice
03 Feb 2012 ‘No end in sight' to rent rises, tenant bidding wars
03 Feb 2012 SCF receivers sell Dairy Holdings stake
03 Feb 2012 [Weekly wrap] Change needed
03 Feb 2012 More fixed rate cuts
03 Feb 2012 Treasury advocating strongly for CGT
03 Feb 2012 Auckland market sees strongest January for four years
02 Feb 2012 Kiwibank cuts. Just BNZ to go
02 Feb 2012 Investor wins Hanover tax fight
02 Feb 2012 Is there a property bubble brewing?
02 Feb 2012 Adviser "angst" over anti-money laundering rules
02 Feb 2012 Next banks to move
02 Feb 2012 Migration turnaround likely to underpin housing market
01 Feb 2012 Big banks at risk of ratings downgrade
01 Feb 2012 Predictions for 2012: investment markets
01 Feb 2012 Do we have the best way of setting the OCR?
January 2012
31 Jan 2012 Bollard's departure sparks monetary policy debate
31 Jan 2012 New NZX boss revealed
31 Jan 2012 Too hard to read
31 Jan 2012 Ginger Group CEO departs
31 Jan 2012 Rates round-up: January 31
31 Jan 2012 Housing consent numbers hit record low
30 Jan 2012 Bollard casts off from bank
30 Jan 2012 Bollard casts off from bank
30 Jan 2012 News Round Up January 30
28 Jan 2012 Not all rates down
27 Jan 2012 [Weekly Wrap] The great debate on fees
27 Jan 2012 Govt not interested in affordable house prices
27 Jan 2012 ASB cuts 1 to 5 year fixed home loan rates
27 Jan 2012 Real estate chiefs slam affordability claims
27 Jan 2012 Forster questions role of lawyers in finders' tussle
26 Jan 2012 ASB cuts 1 to 5 year fixed home loan rates
26 Jan 2012 Fisher Funds' Huljich purchase price revealed
26 Jan 2012 Asteron appoints new MD
26 Jan 2012 Leadership changes at The Co-operative Bank
26 Jan 2012 Bollard holds OCR steady as US Fed prompts currency jump
26 Jan 2012 What Bollard said
26 Jan 2012 Fund managers told to take good with bad
26 Jan 2012 Down they come
25 Jan 2012 Cut your commission to compete, says Sovereign
25 Jan 2012 Another bank cuts rates
25 Jan 2012 REAA promises more legal action, agents in gun too
24 Jan 2012 Blue Chip directors, auditors hit with $40m claim
24 Jan 2012 Ex-CEO named in South Canterbury SFO case
24 Jan 2012 [UPDATED] Perky housing market may force rate hike
24 Jan 2012 Performance fees - who needs them?
24 Jan 2012 Blue Chip directors, auditors hit with $40m claim
23 Jan 2012 Obituary: Warren Day
23 Jan 2012 MDRT Minute: Prospecting with a New Twist
23 Jan 2012 IFA announces new board member
23 Jan 2012 Bollard likely to keep interest rates steady
23 Jan 2012 Where to for the OCR?
23 Jan 2012 Rates round-up: January 23
23 Jan 2012 Bollard likely to keep interest rates steady
23 Jan 2012 No affordable housing in NZ: Survey
20 Jan 2012 Fidelity Life's rating reaffirmed
20 Jan 2012 [Weekly wrap] Back from the beach
20 Jan 2012 ANZ National cut rates
19 Jan 2012 AIA appoints new trainee distribution development manager
19 Jan 2012 ANZ warns of $14b KiwiSaver timebomb
19 Jan 2012 Fund manager performance fees under fire
19 Jan 2012 Fixed rates bottomed: Westpac
18 Jan 2012 Newpark to chase farmers
18 Jan 2012 What to make of the Kiwibank deal
18 Jan 2012 [Breaking News] Kiwibank to buy Gareth Morgan Investments
18 Jan 2012 Kiwibank buys Gareth Morgan Investments
18 Jan 2012 Advisers drafted to fight war on terror
18 Jan 2012 Don't expect any OCR increases soon
18 Jan 2012 Strong December with sales up 20%
18 Jan 2012 REINZ Regional Commentaries - December 2011
17 Jan 2012 New online venture offers cheaper Sovereign and OnePath cover
17 Jan 2012 BNZ sees little change in OCR this year
17 Jan 2012 Euro woes no cause for panic (yet)
16 Jan 2012 Obituary: Cyril Chaplin
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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