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February 2016
01 Feb 2016 New industry body proposed
01 Feb 2016 Advisers told: Don't gamble on forex
01 Feb 2016 Tauranga: The lure of the golden hue
January 2016
29 Jan 2016 SBW returns to Australia
29 Jan 2016 Investor lending recovers
29 Jan 2016 Halo effect caution
29 Jan 2016 Lifetime Income launches
28 Jan 2016 Following the halo
28 Jan 2016 RBNZ signals OCR cuts looming
28 Jan 2016 What the Reserve Bank said to start the year
28 Jan 2016 No change to OCR. Here's what was said
28 Jan 2016 40pc of insurance applications slipping through cracks
28 Jan 2016 Decisions still pending on FADC referrals
27 Jan 2016 Changes at top at ANZ
27 Jan 2016 Govt committed to Auckland supply issue
27 Jan 2016 ANZ gets new head of Wealth
27 Jan 2016 [Carey Church] Time to widen debate on FAA Options paper
27 Jan 2016 NZ economic outlook downgraded
27 Jan 2016 Investors ask: Where are the loans?
27 Jan 2016 Confidence in Auckland housing market drops
27 Jan 2016 Don't expect Super Fund returns to continue
27 Jan 2016 More volatility to come
26 Jan 2016 Southern Cross to fund preventative treatment
26 Jan 2016 Workplaces may become battlegrounds for advisers
26 Jan 2016 First-home withdrawal function not purist but valuable, providers say
26 Jan 2016 Profiles revisited
25 Jan 2016 Make your voice heard
25 Jan 2016 No quick fix for affordability issue
25 Jan 2016 No cuts predicted for OCR this week
25 Jan 2016 OCR cuts to come – but not now
25 Jan 2016 Mixed fortunes in pension transfer market
22 Jan 2016 Draft new code revealed
21 Jan 2016 Rental market favours tenants
21 Jan 2016 Stress testing better option than risk indicators: James
20 Jan 2016 Risk-taking pays off
20 Jan 2016 Regions setting market pace
20 Jan 2016 Auto-enrolment would only add 5% to KiwiSaver: Report
20 Jan 2016 Profits take flight with Airbnb
20 Jan 2016 Record highs for regions
19 Jan 2016 Investing in holiday dreams
19 Jan 2016 Red tape hurdles
19 Jan 2016 Concern adviser numbers will fall
18 Jan 2016 Banks and resource exposure
18 Jan 2016 Battling red tape
18 Jan 2016 Outlook for the Year of the Monkey
18 Jan 2016 New special rates
18 Jan 2016 Risks indicators an education tool
15 Jan 2016 Moderation on the cards - Fitch
15 Jan 2016 Kiwis don't want to pay for advice
15 Jan 2016 SBS interim boss named
15 Jan 2016 Lifetime income rates a drawcard
14 Jan 2016 Bay of Plenty picking up heat
14 Jan 2016 Bay of Plenty hits new high
14 Jan 2016 Five-year KiwiSaver break too long
14 Jan 2016 Clients want advice, don't want to pay for it
13 Jan 2016 Auckland market taking a breather – QV
13 Jan 2016 Risky business
13 Jan 2016 Blue skies ahead
13 Jan 2016 Roboadvice an opportunity for advisers
12 Jan 2016 Harmoney chair steps down
12 Jan 2016 Cheaper interest rates don't mean more affordable housing
12 Jan 2016 Return to reality for market
12 Jan 2016 Life insurance code 'could work'
12 Jan 2016 Dick Smith a lesson in risk
11 Jan 2016 Return to a “realistic” market
11 Jan 2016 Lending Crowd soft launches
11 Jan 2016 Building consents up nationwide
11 Jan 2016 New rules coming for Aussie advisers
09 Jan 2016 Forums to discuss 'contentious' FAA overhaul
08 Jan 2016 Concern expected at entity licensing proposal
07 Jan 2016 Crowdfunding site moves into P2P
07 Jan 2016 SBS boss dies
07 Jan 2016 A few worrying things
07 Jan 2016 Tailor your mortgage news
07 Jan 2016 SBS chief exec dies
07 Jan 2016 Listings fall, prices hold firm
07 Jan 2016 Harmoney increases borrowers' interest rates
07 Jan 2016 KiwiSaver well-positioned for 2016
06 Jan 2016 Market turmoil creates knock-on effect
06 Jan 2016 Advisers can step up in market volatility
06 Jan 2016 Prices on hold as listings fall
05 Jan 2016 Interest rates predicted to drop further in 2016
05 Jan 2016 Insurance site set to launch
05 Jan 2016 Active management tipped as key in 2016
01 Jan 2016 MBIE told consumers can't see advice value
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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