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January 2005
27 Jan 2005 Reserve Bank leaves interest rates unchanged
27 Jan 2005 Company Solutions Ltd
27 Jan 2005 Hybrid Group
27 Jan 2005 Bluestone Mortgages
27 Jan 2005 Deposit Power
27 Jan 2005 OCR unchanged at 6.5%
27 Jan 2005 ISI to advocate major changes to advisers: Arkinstall
26 Jan 2005 TOWER QuickStart 2005
26 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
26 Jan 2005 Where will the new minister take the taskforce?
26 Jan 2005 What NZ First and George W Bush have in common
25 Jan 2005 Tower hints at further growth
25 Jan 2005 TOWER QuickStart 2005
25 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
25 Jan 2005 UPDATED: Australian hedge fund appears in NZ
25 Jan 2005 TOWER Health & Life appoints new BDM
24 Jan 2005 TOWER QuickStart 2005
24 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
24 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
24 Jan 2005 News Round Up
24 Jan 2005 Labour of love pays off - Mary Holm
24 Jan 2005 Kiwi Income to review its fees
24 Jan 2005 Hawke's Bay, Auckland home prices fall
24 Jan 2005 IRD cracks down on property investment schemes
24 Jan 2005 Steady she goes
24 Jan 2005 Building Act puts brakes on consents
24 Jan 2005 Paying for a million-dollar view
24 Jan 2005 Cheaper house sale fee pledged
24 Jan 2005 Rate rise not expected this week: Economists
24 Jan 2005 Stay of execution for deco block
24 Jan 2005 Warning on investor's land splurge
24 Jan 2005 House sales in 2004 just shy of record
24 Jan 2005 Inflation hits two-year high
24 Jan 2005 Macquarie Goodman adds to South Sydney estate
24 Jan 2005 Two-year rates still a good deal: economist
23 Jan 2005 Spicers to start using finance companies
21 Jan 2005 Newland joins St Laurence and takes a stake
21 Jan 2005 Managed funds produce good returns in 2004
20 Jan 2005 House prices stable, but fewer selling
20 Jan 2005 House prices see some consolidation
20 Jan 2005 Allocating money to NZ assets in 2005
20 Jan 2005 What I like about our industry
20 Jan 2005 Asteron buys Stone & Associates
19 Jan 2005 Why I like financial services
19 Jan 2005 United pushes for tax deductibility of super payments
19 Jan 2005 United pushes for tax deductibility of super payments
18 Jan 2005 Trass reckons no property crash on cards
18 Jan 2005 Macquarie appoints new director
18 Jan 2005 News Round Up
17 Jan 2005 Two-year rates still a good deal: economist
17 Jan 2005 Firm offers probes to test house damp risk
17 Jan 2005 Confidence brings rise in Australian home loans
17 Jan 2005 Many turn a deaf ear to house alarms
17 Jan 2005 Council still out on Urupukapuka redevelopment
17 Jan 2005 Bankrupt man living in luxury
17 Jan 2005 Rent dispute has publicans kept out of their own bar
17 Jan 2005 TDC eyes expansion
17 Jan 2005 Investors still optimisic despite good year
14 Jan 2005 Australian banks likely to takeover mortgage brokers: Deloitte
14 Jan 2005 Too hard, says News as it hands over super
14 Jan 2005 Too hard, says News as it hands over super
12 Jan 2005 Alternative investments picked for 2005
12 Jan 2005 Julie Chambers: Back to front policy for old buildings
12 Jan 2005 Fletchers in $425m buy-up
12 Jan 2005 More data hints at slowing property market
12 Jan 2005 Five-star tourist apartments planned
12 Jan 2005 Fixing our image
12 Jan 2005 Call for investigation
12 Jan 2005 Boucher back to Oz
12 Jan 2005 Alternative investments picked for 2005
12 Jan 2005 Donald keeps up GSF criticism
11 Jan 2005 Asteron buys Stone
10 Jan 2005 Construction boom goes on - and on
10 Jan 2005 Bach fetches more than $2m
10 Jan 2005 Squeezed first-home buyers to get help
10 Jan 2005 National party backs property rental rights
10 Jan 2005 No way onto housing ladder for young couples
10 Jan 2005 News Round Up
06 Jan 2005 Kingfish lands a big December quarter
06 Jan 2005 A slice of sense for 2005 property market?
06 Jan 2005 Get Your Finances Sorted In 2005
06 Jan 2005 Landlords looking good for 2005
06 Jan 2005 NZ ranked in top 10 'economically free' countries
06 Jan 2005 Rush is on to grab sections in the city
06 Jan 2005 'We need more shopping malls'
05 Jan 2005 FPIA branches take the lead in educating investors
05 Jan 2005 Raising pension rate to be election issue
05 Jan 2005 New BNZ share fund manager
02 Jan 2005 House rents static in most areas
02 Jan 2005 Returns should remain solid in 2005
02 Jan 2005 City lobby group ups ante
02 Jan 2005 Million-dollar price tag - no big deal
02 Jan 2005 Building boom in resort town
02 Jan 2005 Mortgage rates creeping up
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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