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March 2018
02 Mar 2018 Costs impact on consents
02 Mar 2018 Bluestone hails “extra firepower” after US takeover
02 Mar 2018 FMA still waiting for first robo applications
01 Mar 2018 Market blues for investors
01 Mar 2018 Nikko takes out top Award
01 Mar 2018 RESIMAC applications up 30% as Homeloans profits soar
February 2018
28 Feb 2018 Meet the latest non-bank lender to market; How hot is HSBC's new rate? Find out here
28 Feb 2018 Migration resilience means no demand let-up
28 Feb 2018 Bright line test extension fast tracked
28 Feb 2018 Steep drop for mortgage lending
28 Feb 2018 Platforms' commission question
28 Feb 2018 Working group raises FSLAB worries
27 Feb 2018 FMA takes FSPR action
27 Feb 2018 There's more to a home loan than the rate
27 Feb 2018 Multi-million mortgage fraud trial gets underway
27 Feb 2018 Bluestone returns after 10 year absence
27 Feb 2018 Ralph Stewart's Lifetime group hits five
27 Feb 2018 Retirement beckons for Scott Black
27 Feb 2018 April launch planned for Pie Wealth
27 Feb 2018 Technology adoption a key differentiator for advisers
26 Feb 2018 Kerr Neilson steps back at Platinum
26 Feb 2018 Rents on the rise
26 Feb 2018 Top 10 tips for managing commercial tenants
26 Feb 2018 'Information gap' harming KiwiSaver outcomes
26 Feb 2018 FSLAB: Still changes to be made, associations argue
26 Feb 2018 FundSource adds Oyster to its research menu
23 Feb 2018 HSBC does it again
23 Feb 2018 Getting to Know: Tim Fairbrother
23 Feb 2018 Fidelity Life makes key Otago/Southland sales appointment
23 Feb 2018 Capital prices hit record high
23 Feb 2018 AMP Capital funds net first investors
23 Feb 2018 Disclosure rules will fit the situation: MBIE
22 Feb 2018 Roboadvice exemption is live
22 Feb 2018 Lending criteria to ease, rates to rise
22 Feb 2018 NZ Super Fund: Returns will fall
22 Feb 2018 ANZ tightens lending controls following fraud case
22 Feb 2018 Employment growth gets credit for insurance increase
22 Feb 2018 Lifetime, Camelot may join forces
21 Feb 2018 NZ Super Fund drops carbon investments
21 Feb 2018 Ageing population behind reverse mortgage rise, says Heartland
21 Feb 2018 People + technology: better together
21 Feb 2018 Housing risks to peak in 2018
21 Feb 2018 Greater flexibility for earthquake fund
21 Feb 2018 Financial Advice NZ CEO: Dodds vs Severn?
21 Feb 2018 Lack of prospectus costs adviser insurance claim
21 Feb 2018 Don't ignore volatility: Milford
20 Feb 2018 Morningstar finalists announced
20 Feb 2018 China's Phantom Slowdown
20 Feb 2018 New leading 5-year rate; Bagrie is back
20 Feb 2018 Price expectations hit new low
20 Feb 2018 FMA concerned at AFA disclosure
19 Feb 2018 Partners Life sponsors exhibition
19 Feb 2018 NZX reports FUM lift
19 Feb 2018 Throwing out the rulebook
19 Feb 2018 Big opportunity for advisers: Mercer
16 Feb 2018 Century 21 appoints Home Loans GM
16 Feb 2018 Get ready for downturn - Bagrie
16 Feb 2018 Getting to Know: Nick Stewart
16 Feb 2018 Barry Read's IDS to merge with Strategi
16 Feb 2018 One-year term gets more interesting; Compliance firms merge
16 Feb 2018 Strategi and IDS merge
16 Feb 2018 GRTV: No bull like an old bull
16 Feb 2018 Foreign investment vital for NZ companies
16 Feb 2018 Who'll still be standing in 12 months' time?
15 Feb 2018 Extension to bright line test on the way
15 Feb 2018 Don’t count on the housing market recovery
15 Feb 2018 Blackwell eyes gap in market with new funding line
15 Feb 2018 Don’t count on the housing market recovery
15 Feb 2018 Super Fund appoints acting chief executive
15 Feb 2018 Advisers get automation boost
14 Feb 2018 Quality mark plan raises CFP questions
14 Feb 2018 Pathfinder bolsters responsible investment capability
13 Feb 2018 Stocktake offers no solutions
13 Feb 2018 ANZ gets aggressive
13 Feb 2018 Advice penalties increase
12 Feb 2018 Harbour adds to board
12 Feb 2018 Tenancy law reform needed: housing stocktake
12 Feb 2018 Legg Mason launches fund
12 Feb 2018 Westpac follows BNZ near the top of the table
12 Feb 2018 What’s driving the market?
12 Feb 2018 Dispute schemes: Fees are fair
12 Feb 2018 Code working group's next steps
12 Feb 2018 How to run an effective approved provider list in 5 steps
09 Feb 2018 ETF gets big boost
09 Feb 2018 Prison sentence for mortgage fraudster
09 Feb 2018 Trustees Executors shareholders bought out
09 Feb 2018 Vested outsourcing - How outsourcing is meant to be
09 Feb 2018 SuperCity values on the rise
09 Feb 2018 BNZ puts out competitive one-year rate
09 Feb 2018 Market wobble highlights value of advice
08 Feb 2018 Share appoints advisers
08 Feb 2018 Low interest rates set to continue
08 Feb 2018 What the Reserve Bank said today
08 Feb 2018 OCR unchanged: The Reserve Bank has spoken
08 Feb 2018 Adviser numbers could drop 50%: Moore
08 Feb 2018 CFP numbers grow
07 Feb 2018 MPM appoints new sales manager
07 Feb 2018 Magellan buys a fund manager
07 Feb 2018 Westpac shaves one-year rate
07 Feb 2018 Financial Advice NZ clarifies priorities
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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