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January 2013
22 Jan 2013 BNZ registers KiwiSaver scheme
22 Jan 2013 Westpac special but no cash back
22 Jan 2013 Regulation prepares advisers for ‘new normal’
22 Jan 2013 Council heralds construction lift
22 Jan 2013 Heatley loses Housing
21 Jan 2013 Crown funds at their limit with NZ shares
21 Jan 2013 Two biggest broker groups to join
21 Jan 2013 The first rates changes of 2013 and a merger
21 Jan 2013 Government predicts house price boom
21 Jan 2013 Capital gains tax support: Poll
18 Jan 2013 ASB pushes out date for OCR increase
18 Jan 2013 Advisers (and Accuro) love animals
18 Jan 2013 Six in a row for Sovereign
18 Jan 2013 Cynicism towards fund research misplaced
18 Jan 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Clarity needed
18 Jan 2013 Advisers need to escape regulation bubble
18 Jan 2013 Cigna boss takes on international role
18 Jan 2013 Looking back 20 years
18 Jan 2013 Mortgage approvals at 2009 levels
18 Jan 2013 CVs no price guide: Newland
18 Jan 2013 Price rises to become sharper: Alexander
17 Jan 2013 TOWER Life sale rumours increase
17 Jan 2013 NZ managers: Hands off the printing presses
17 Jan 2013 FMA considering guidance on low-end advice
17 Jan 2013 Ex-Fisher CIO launches KiwiSaver scheme
17 Jan 2013 Lifestyle sales hit five-year high
16 Jan 2013 Property a productive investment: Newland
16 Jan 2013 HNZ 'referring clients to Salvation Army'
15 Jan 2013 Second AFA loses licence
15 Jan 2013 Muldoon’s legacy still haunting advisers
15 Jan 2013 In the absence of openness, assume the worst
15 Jan 2013 Short-term interest rates looking good
15 Jan 2013 Auctions big news of 2012: REINZ
14 Jan 2013 Small adviser documents ‘realistic’
14 Jan 2013 Newland slams Trade Me stats
14 Jan 2013 Rental listings up, interest down: Trade Me
11 Jan 2013 Harbour Monthly Commentary: Stronger global growth signals
11 Jan 2013 [Weekly Wrap] The role of an AFA
11 Jan 2013 Advisers need to escape regulation bubble
11 Jan 2013 Listings restrain growth: Bayleys
10 Jan 2013 New code of conduct
10 Jan 2013 House prices up as Auckland leads the way
10 Jan 2013 Stock picking beyond most AFAs
10 Jan 2013 200 properties on market since before 2008
09 Jan 2013 A dubious first for David Ross
09 Jan 2013 The AFA without products
09 Jan 2013 Building consents trend up
09 Jan 2013 Meetings on seismic policy
08 Jan 2013 Bank expects action on the housing boom this year
08 Jan 2013 The Brook Income Fund
08 Jan 2013 Brook: Lights dimming on our “bright fibre future”
08 Jan 2013 What advisers want to see in 2013
08 Jan 2013 Listings lag despite price rise: Barfoot
08 Jan 2013 Bach sales a barometer for economy
07 Jan 2013 Tyndall Monthly Commentary: The expectations gap
07 Jan 2013 Third piece of Pie due in April
07 Jan 2013 Big moves unlikely in deposit rates
07 Jan 2013 Insurance advisers warned against cancellation cash grabs
07 Jan 2013 No summer slowdown in real estate market
04 Jan 2013 Coffee cup cure for economy
04 Jan 2013 Dearth of listings in Auckland: Report
04 Jan 2013 Value of KiwiSaver first-home boost revealed
03 Jan 2013 Perpetual on verge of becoming trans-Tasman business
03 Jan 2013 Smaller profit in small homes: Colliers
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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