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April 2019
15 Apr 2019 Investor confidence buoyed on US coy earnings; NZX rises
15 Apr 2019 Rising from the ashes
15 Apr 2019 House sales volumes fall and finance is blamed
15 Apr 2019 nib finds ways to target advisers, post Fidelity deal
15 Apr 2019 Insurers call for replacement business rules in code
15 Apr 2019 Code submissions revealed: Industry wanted change
12 Apr 2019 [The Wrap] A crystal ball look at the new world of advice
12 Apr 2019 NZ shares rise; retirement stocks Metlife, Summerset extend recovery
12 Apr 2019 Downward migration trend halts
12 Apr 2019 Cigna plans OnePath changes
12 Apr 2019 Super Fund, AMP exclude weapons
12 Apr 2019 Resimac on hunt for New Zealand GM
12 Apr 2019 ANZ loses court bid over Ross files
12 Apr 2019 Auckland sales at lowest since 2008
12 Apr 2019 ANZ goes green with healthy home discount
12 Apr 2019 BNZ finds partner for shared ownership scheme
12 Apr 2019 Financial Advice NZ seeks backers for missing piece of the puzzle
11 Apr 2019 NZ shares snap six-day decline as retirement stocks claw back losses
11 Apr 2019 Resimac takes on banks with big cuts
11 Apr 2019 Hawes' scheme launches more funds
11 Apr 2019 Southern Cross launches AI assistant
11 Apr 2019 Capital gains battle heats up
11 Apr 2019 Changing world, changing property market
11 Apr 2019 FADC case shows RFAs face big challenges under new laws
11 Apr 2019 ESG version of S&P 500 launched
11 Apr 2019 FSLAB gets final tick
10 Apr 2019 Yield stocks loose their lustre
10 Apr 2019 NZ banks could face $21bn capital shortfall
10 Apr 2019 Chief investment officer appointed
10 Apr 2019 Cigna expands into South Island
10 Apr 2019 Booster launches new automated budget building tool
10 Apr 2019 NZ banks could face $21bn capital shortfall
10 Apr 2019 Faafoi: Code 'no surprises'
09 Apr 2019 Retirement stocks under pressure on housing fears
09 Apr 2019 The market for adviser businesses
09 Apr 2019 Insurers' requirement to assess suitability may change adviser landscape
09 Apr 2019 Market Outlook: Records broken
09 Apr 2019 Mortgage rate dance continues; As does the BDM shuffle
09 Apr 2019 Westpac, ANZ, TSB ramp up offers
09 Apr 2019 Falling interest rates change investing landscape
08 Apr 2019 Slowing property market weighs on sharemarket
08 Apr 2019 Capital gains battle heats up
08 Apr 2019 Westpac latest to predict May OCR cut
08 Apr 2019 Mortgage Link appoints new BDM
08 Apr 2019 Policy king hit
08 Apr 2019 Rich Lister backs Stubb's KiwiSaver scheme
07 Apr 2019 AMP agreements continue
05 Apr 2019 NZ shares fall; weak Summerset sales weigh on retirement stocks
05 Apr 2019 General Finance seeing strong interest from UDC investors
05 Apr 2019 General Finance seeing strong interest from UDC investors
05 Apr 2019 AIA donates $100,000 for mental health
05 Apr 2019 Capital rules to have minor impact on interest rates: RBNZ
05 Apr 2019 Here's what MPs said about advisers; Avanti recruits from Link; BNZ cuts
05 Apr 2019 Yields creeping upwards
05 Apr 2019 Avanti targets adviser channel with BDM hire
05 Apr 2019 Green light for new financial advice regime
05 Apr 2019 MPs laud roboadvice, client-first push in FSLAB
05 Apr 2019 Clients still need help with basics: IFSO
05 Apr 2019 AIA adopts HealthScreen programme
04 Apr 2019 Defensive stocks end stellar run
04 Apr 2019 Green light for new financial advice regime
04 Apr 2019 Price war heats up with ASB move
04 Apr 2019 Price war heats up with ASB move
04 Apr 2019 Auckland a “buyers market”
04 Apr 2019 COMMENT: Tax deductibility of rental property upgrades
04 Apr 2019 FSLAB set to pass
03 Apr 2019 Telco boss unexpectedly hangs up and market falls
03 Apr 2019 Realism needed in Auckland market
03 Apr 2019 No excuses now...
03 Apr 2019 FSLAB enters the final straight
03 Apr 2019 Brakes on value growth
03 Apr 2019 Advisers to be offered more help constructing portfolios
02 Apr 2019 The prospect of rate cuts drive market higher; Maccas helps the rally
02 Apr 2019 Economists do u-turn on OCR; Aussie non-bank lenders eyes NZ; Bluestone poaches ANZ BDM
02 Apr 2019 Two large investment adviser firms merge
02 Apr 2019 Australian non-bank Pepper eyes NZ
02 Apr 2019 FMA: Make sure 'off-the-shelf' compliance solutions are a good fit
01 Apr 2019 NZ shares join Asian rally as Chinese data boosts investor confidence
01 Apr 2019 FMA confirms board appointments
01 Apr 2019 A Prospa NZ success story
01 Apr 2019 Economists change their mind on next OCR movement
01 Apr 2019 Bluestone poaches ANZ BDM
01 Apr 2019 NZ Funds’ KiwiSaver hitches ride with Lyft
01 Apr 2019 All insurance and mortgage advisers should read this
01 Apr 2019 KiwiSaver Insight:
01 Apr 2019 Top yields in City of Sales
01 Apr 2019 Associations hang back on Financial Advice NZ
March 2019
30 Mar 2019 Treat rental properties as a business
29 Mar 2019 [The Wrap] Advisers should be very worried over today's FADC ruling
29 Mar 2019 NZX50 delivers 12% gain in March quarter as low rates spur demand for yield
29 Mar 2019 Adviser breached code
29 Mar 2019 AIA rolls out nurse-led application assistance programme
29 Mar 2019 Partners Life gets ratings upgrade
29 Mar 2019 Partners gets ratings upgrade
29 Mar 2019 TSB joins the party; SX CEO goes; Bank targets criticised
29 Mar 2019 Bank targets criticised
29 Mar 2019 NZ market not big enough for Shariah insurance
29 Mar 2019 Advisers' time spent on back-office tasks
29 Mar 2019 FMA appoints executives
28 Mar 2019 Dividend yield stocks again dominate sharemarket trading
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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