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February 2018
07 Feb 2018 Markets wobble - what next?
07 Feb 2018 Reassessing Capital rental squeeze
05 Feb 2018 Will the OCR move this week? Check out what economists think
05 Feb 2018 Slow start for Auckland
05 Feb 2018 Hot in Queenstown
05 Feb 2018 Advisers have role to boost confidence
02 Feb 2018 OCR holding pattern to continue
02 Feb 2018 Getting to Know: Trevor Slater
02 Feb 2018 Slow, halting growth path for consents
02 Feb 2018 Migration tide continues to turn
02 Feb 2018 Rethinking retirement assumptions
02 Feb 2018 Advisers would welcome well-known UDC buyer
01 Feb 2018 F&P stops deposits
01 Feb 2018 AMP changes outlook
01 Feb 2018 No go for rent controls
01 Feb 2018 BNZ changes adviser commission model
01 Feb 2018 Cooler days for former hot spots
01 Feb 2018 BNZ move puts pressure on other banks
01 Feb 2018 Time's up for admin fees: Morningstar
January 2018
31 Jan 2018 Rental squeeze to intensify
31 Jan 2018 Investor loans low; AI arrives for a mortgage adviser
31 Jan 2018 OCR increase pushed out
31 Jan 2018 Insurance bosses poorly prepared for change: Naylor
31 Jan 2018 FMA has eye on conflicted conduct
30 Jan 2018 Advisers to get development guidance
30 Jan 2018 New low for investor mortgage share
30 Jan 2018 Client-first rule softened - why?
29 Jan 2018 Making the right call
26 Jan 2018 Sovereign appoints tech boss
26 Jan 2018 Falling affordability the norm
26 Jan 2018 Ups and downs from ASB today
26 Jan 2018 New Zealand values most stretched in world
25 Jan 2018 Auckland property gains halved in two years
25 Jan 2018 The Co-operative Bank trims one-year rates
25 Jan 2018 Advisers told: Don't ignore crypto
24 Jan 2018 Loss making sales on the rise
24 Jan 2018 Options emerge for licence-averse advisers
23 Jan 2018 Guilty plea from mortgage fraudster
23 Jan 2018 What advisers want from Financial Advice NZ
23 Jan 2018 The 10 best ways to compete with the big end of town
23 Jan 2018 Big questions for 2018
23 Jan 2018 [Obituary] Mark Frecklington
23 Jan 2018 Exemption grows under FSLAB
22 Jan 2018 Roboadvice on horizon
22 Jan 2018 Supply answer to affordability problem
22 Jan 2018 The first rate change for the year
22 Jan 2018 Make $$$$ from extra space
22 Jan 2018 'Business as usual' despite correction fears
19 Jan 2018 Getting to Know: Mary Potter
19 Jan 2018 NZ average on disclosure
19 Jan 2018 Insurers: Robo won't replace advisers
19 Jan 2018 Investor confidence slumps
19 Jan 2018 KiwiSaver 'shouldn't be only scheme with perks'
18 Jan 2018 Southern Cross launches gender-inclusive application
18 Jan 2018 New portfolio manager for Pie Funds
18 Jan 2018 House prices pick up, but volumes low
18 Jan 2018 Housing market picks up, but not everywhere
18 Jan 2018 Little relief for buyers - REINZ
18 Jan 2018 Client first 'means responsible investment'
17 Jan 2018 10 Ross investors in liquidator sights
17 Jan 2018 Giving mortgage advisers a voice
17 Jan 2018 Landlords: don’t overlook smoke alarms
17 Jan 2018 No safe harbour for new advisers
16 Jan 2018 Reckless damage by tenants not intentional
16 Jan 2018 2018 'looking good for Asia'
16 Jan 2018 Stock picking and the art of motorcycle maintenance
16 Jan 2018 New lending manager
16 Jan 2018 Advice force changes: Hunters out, farmers in
16 Jan 2018 Perennial position redundant
15 Jan 2018 Shariah funds shine
15 Jan 2018 RESIMAC appoints new lending manager
15 Jan 2018 Non-bank lender changes hands
15 Jan 2018 Year of the yield
15 Jan 2018 Stakeholders urged to submit on bill
12 Jan 2018 Investors die waiting
12 Jan 2018 15 year high for Auckland consents
12 Jan 2018 Reducing pet rental risks
12 Jan 2018 Don't worry, stay invested
11 Jan 2018 FMA scam warning
11 Jan 2018 Seeking property alternatives
11 Jan 2018 Insurers collaborate on fintech
11 Jan 2018 Slow growth trend takes hold
11 Jan 2018 Squeeze on financial recruitment
10 Jan 2018 Healthy homes in everyone’s interest - APIA
10 Jan 2018 World Bank predicts short-term growth boost
10 Jan 2018 Financial planning and insurance advice
10 Jan 2018 Financial Advice NZ committees appointed
10 Jan 2018 Opening rental doors to pets
10 Jan 2018 Cryptocurrency fund open to New Zealand investors
09 Jan 2018 Super Fund: Opportunities in expansion capital
09 Jan 2018 Committee members to lobby for advice strands
08 Jan 2018 New look General Finance to take on gaps in market
08 Jan 2018 Falling sales, rising prices for Super City
08 Jan 2018 Super Fund recruiting
05 Jan 2018 Nelson values hold firm
04 Jan 2018 Housing stock on market building
03 Jan 2018 Looking ahead to 2018
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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