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March 2016
11 Mar 2016 More reaction to surprise OCR cut
11 Mar 2016 NZ & Australia Company Results Review
11 Mar 2016 MJW fallout unexpected
11 Mar 2016 ANZ keeping cuts mainly to itself
11 Mar 2016 Banks slow to pass on OCR cut
11 Mar 2016 'Simple' product for online sales
11 Mar 2016 Stonewood saga for investors
10 Mar 2016 Genesis bonds
10 Mar 2016 Timing of OCR cut surprises
10 Mar 2016 Surprise OCR cut
10 Mar 2016 Reserve Bank surprises with OCR cut
10 Mar 2016 What the Reserve Bank said today
10 Mar 2016 Do balanced funds need to change?
10 Mar 2016 NZ 2nd in global house price index
09 Mar 2016 Interest grows in ethical options
09 Mar 2016 TSB tweaks special
09 Mar 2016 Sovereign reassurance amid CBA claims
09 Mar 2016 Index submission criticised
09 Mar 2016 BNZ working out its wider roll out strategy to advisers
09 Mar 2016 Top 10 tax deduction blunders
08 Mar 2016 $4m may be coming from Squirrel investors
08 Mar 2016 Oyster launches property fund
08 Mar 2016 AMP advisers get awards
08 Mar 2016 When is a heart attack not a heart attack?
08 Mar 2016 No affordability problem
08 Mar 2016 Affordability not the problem
08 Mar 2016 Shake-up won't disrupt adviser business: Suncorp
08 Mar 2016 Industry could do better by women
07 Mar 2016 New head of currency for RBNZ
07 Mar 2016 On the cusp of change
07 Mar 2016 Cuts to OCR unlikely
07 Mar 2016 OCR cut this week unlikely
07 Mar 2016 MBIE asked: What harm are RFAs doing?
04 Mar 2016 Squirrel investors to receive offer docs
04 Mar 2016 Squirrel investors get offer docs today
04 Mar 2016 People should be angrier about tax changes: Baucher
03 Mar 2016 Shaking off the summer lull
03 Mar 2016 Global funding costs impact on mortgage rates
03 Mar 2016 Good time for financial planning: Maye
03 Mar 2016 Industry can't fix itself: MJW
03 Mar 2016 AIA credits service model for adviser channel growth
02 Mar 2016 Sustainability rating launched
02 Mar 2016 Asteron now under Vero leadership
02 Mar 2016 Milford takes leading position with new system
02 Mar 2016 ANZ wealth shake-up
02 Mar 2016 Softening market may be short-lived
02 Mar 2016 Beware catches in regional housing strength
02 Mar 2016 Sovereign's new boss revealed
02 Mar 2016 Peer-to-peer lending growing in popularity
02 Mar 2016 Banks offer value: Morningstar
02 Mar 2016 Portfolio-building has limited appeal
02 Mar 2016 Peer-to-peer a growing option, broker says
01 Mar 2016 Sovereign urges action
01 Mar 2016 Through the looking glass: The Madness of Negative Rates
01 Mar 2016 Looming impact of global funding costs
01 Mar 2016 Investing in 'alternatives'
01 Mar 2016 BNZ makes interesting rate changes
01 Mar 2016 Auckland soars to new record
01 Mar 2016 Super fund invests in a new strategy
01 Mar 2016 [VIDEO] John Bolton talks to TMM Online
01 Mar 2016 FMA tackles performance fees
01 Mar 2016 Campbell takes new role
01 Mar 2016 Newpark double dates mortgage groups
01 Mar 2016 Tax hit for gold bugs
01 Mar 2016 Conference registrations open
01 Mar 2016 Not a Shore thing
February 2016
29 Feb 2016 ANZ changes position on OCR cuts
29 Feb 2016 FSC collapse spectacularly bad timing
29 Feb 2016 ANZ changes its view on OCR cuts
29 Feb 2016 Fund managers a growth opportunity for financial advice, FMA says
29 Feb 2016 Accountants submit in favour of exemption
29 Feb 2016 Decline in building consents
26 Feb 2016 Amanah amasses members
26 Feb 2016 ASIC outlines commission review scope
26 Feb 2016 Room for OCR cuts - English
26 Feb 2016 Website wants to entice young recruits
26 Feb 2016 Code Commitee changes criticised: 'Creating, not fixing problems'
25 Feb 2016 Downward trend for investor lending
25 Feb 2016 Scope for OCR cut - English
25 Feb 2016 Supply problem needs solution faster - English
25 Feb 2016 A test of inflation targeting credibility?
25 Feb 2016 Big falls in days to sell in regions
25 Feb 2016 Withdrawals increase
25 Feb 2016 More changes for overseas pension transfers
25 Feb 2016 No let-up in migration flow
25 Feb 2016 Intensification plans in disarray
24 Feb 2016 Harbour takes top award
24 Feb 2016 Homes selling faster in regions
24 Feb 2016 Record profits despite volatility
24 Feb 2016 NZX says 2015 focus on funds services paid off
24 Feb 2016 Lawyers argue exemptions should stay
24 Feb 2016 Volatility, regulation don’t hold back banks
23 Feb 2016 Insulation benefits might be exaggerated
23 Feb 2016 Adviser in court
23 Feb 2016 Threats linger for banks – S&P
23 Feb 2016 Good returns for BoP landlords
23 Feb 2016 Flat half-year for Kiwibank
23 Feb 2016 Submissions due today on code changes
23 Feb 2016 Sharemarket likely to be more resilient than global counterparts
23 Feb 2016 Property crackdown boosted by more IRD numbers
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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