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March 2010
01 Mar 2010 Question marks around the recovery
01 Mar 2010 News round-up
February 2010
26 Feb 2010 AIA gets new chief
26 Feb 2010 Low floating rates not getting much response
26 Feb 2010 ANZ's profit rises but mortgage book stalls
26 Feb 2010 [Weekly Wrap] Responding to the changes
26 Feb 2010 Wespac's mortgage book gallops but profit falls
26 Feb 2010 Vision put into the high risk category
26 Feb 2010 Building consents fall for second month
26 Feb 2010 AMP tackles premium price hikes differently
26 Feb 2010 McDouall Stuart pans Cynotech takeover bid amid full-year loss
26 Feb 2010 Flurry of finance company ratings continues
26 Feb 2010 Westpac and Kiwibank cut in different places
26 Feb 2010 Wrightson Finance profit down, impaired assets up
25 Feb 2010 Investing in your future by selling to young professionals
25 Feb 2010 Tax credit boosts BNZ profits despite underlying profit drop
25 Feb 2010 Housing minister resigns
25 Feb 2010 Two high-profile resignations
25 Feb 2010 SIFA considers its future in new environment
25 Feb 2010 Sue T resigns
24 Feb 2010 Geneva faces more trouble while NZF looks to recapitalise
24 Feb 2010 Tierney quits NZMBA board
24 Feb 2010 Embattled broker resigns from NZMBA board
24 Feb 2010 PSIS cuts floating rate
24 Feb 2010 Morningstar questions Huljich in latest survey
23 Feb 2010 Meaty chunks off the table
23 Feb 2010 Numbers on the up, says Harcourts
23 Feb 2010 Mercer appoints new MD from within ranks
23 Feb 2010 Housing confidence still upbeat
23 Feb 2010 Taskforce recommendations for industry as well as Govt
23 Feb 2010 Geneva considers its future - again
22 Feb 2010 blog notes
22 Feb 2010 Housing market hits wobbles
22 Feb 2010 CU Baywide starts the week off
22 Feb 2010 Adviserlink appoints general manager
22 Feb 2010 News round-up
20 Feb 2010 Two tax changes property investors could live with
19 Feb 2010 [Weekly Wrap] How does Huljich's pricing strategy work?
19 Feb 2010 Trade Me sees record property browsers
19 Feb 2010 House prices set to fall in cooling market: ANZ
19 Feb 2010 Kiwibank's profit dives 40% but mortgage book surges in Dec Qtr
19 Feb 2010 Southern Cross launches Critical Illness Plan
19 Feb 2010 Taking a moment to pause
19 Feb 2010 In bricks and mortar we (will still) trust
19 Feb 2010 The fall of the floating rate
19 Feb 2010 Huljich corrects KiwiSaver performance numbers
19 Feb 2010 Govt may widen range of debt securities
18 Feb 2010 Marac gets two new directors
18 Feb 2010 AXA NZ insurance earnings fall by a fifth
18 Feb 2010 TNP opens school for advisers
18 Feb 2010 IFA seeks exemption from training requirements
18 Feb 2010 SBS lowers floating rate
18 Feb 2010 Small finance companies likely to be forced out: KPMG
17 Feb 2010 S&P dishes out another three ratings
17 Feb 2010 Actively managed fixed interest way to go: PIMCO
16 Feb 2010 RBNZ’s liquidity measures no problem for SCF: Maier
16 Feb 2010 Direct debit story
16 Feb 2010 Help provided to change banks
16 Feb 2010 12th Annual Contract Performance Management Summit
16 Feb 2010 2010 Recovery?
16 Feb 2010 Pitch to tie advisers to QFEs inevitable say IFA, SIFA
16 Feb 2010 Low number of bad loans make it to mortgagee sale
15 Feb 2010 Bridgecorp directors front up in court
15 Feb 2010 A 2010 recovery?
15 Feb 2010 ASB's surprise move
15 Feb 2010 News round-up
14 Feb 2010 Rates Round Up
12 Feb 2010 Sharon Kent approved as Licensed Operator
12 Feb 2010 Brugh appointed as Macquarie investment adviser
12 Feb 2010 Kiwibank makes everyone take notice
12 Feb 2010 ING Roadshow February 2010
12 Feb 2010 [Weekly Wrap] More movers and shakers
12 Feb 2010 Be still my beating heart
12 Feb 2010 The big question around a possible GST rise to 15%
12 Feb 2010 House sales lowest in two decades
12 Feb 2010 Market Review: February 2010 London Commentary
12 Feb 2010 REINZ residential highlights - January 2010
12 Feb 2010 Botherway quits DNZ board
12 Feb 2010 TSB follows Kiwibank
12 Feb 2010 Failed finance companies net PwC more than $10mill
11 Feb 2010 Strategic Finance mulling the Hanover route as receivership threat loo
11 Feb 2010 Falling house sales may indicate faltering economy
11 Feb 2010 ING Roadshow February 2010
11 Feb 2010 No change today
11 Feb 2010 Industry engagement helping the regulatory process: Mayhew
10 Feb 2010 AMP dominates KiwiSaver performance
10 Feb 2010 South Canterbury Finance faces billion dollar liquidity risk
10 Feb 2010 ING Roadshow February 2010
10 Feb 2010 Practice management: Know, manage and choose your emotions
10 Feb 2010 Where to from here?
10 Feb 2010 Deutsche Bank looks set to take stake in Craigs
10 Feb 2010 HSBC slashes five year rate
09 Feb 2010 New manager snares mandates worth $225m
09 Feb 2010 Key’s silence on depreciation indicates it’s a focus
09 Feb 2010 KiwiSaver Performance Survey
09 Feb 2010 AXA encourages advisers to sell insurance before prices rise
09 Feb 2010 Key kicks for touch on property tax
09 Feb 2010 NZMBA develops new process for brokers
09 Feb 2010 Unemployment figures point to a June OCR hike
09 Feb 2010 New AXA owners have no reason to shake it up: Stewart
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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