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January 2021
29 Jan 2021 The latest industry hires
29 Jan 2021 New names at Nest Home Loans
29 Jan 2021 Sustainable funds future for new distribution business
28 Jan 2021 NZ joins global equity rout
28 Jan 2021 Māori economy going from strength to strength: BERL report
28 Jan 2021 The Co-operative pushes for first home buyers
28 Jan 2021 FMA releases damning review on NZX technology issues
28 Jan 2021 The Co-operative Bank lures first home buyers with 2.09% rate
28 Jan 2021 Massey University adviser training open for business
27 Jan 2021 A2 Milk lifts NZ shares
27 Jan 2021 Saturn Advice adds two stars to their constellation
27 Jan 2021 Newly Minted analyst joins the ranks
27 Jan 2021 New Mortgage Express adviser in Hawke's Bay
27 Jan 2021 Turnaround time improvement?
27 Jan 2021 Turnaround time improvement?
27 Jan 2021 ARK Fund brings in new KiwiSaver clients through disruptive innovation
26 Jan 2021 Shares fall as covid case causes concern
26 Jan 2021 (Nearly) top marks for Fidelity Life
26 Jan 2021 Calls to risk weight investor loans
26 Jan 2021 MJW KiwiSaver survey reveals balanced and growth fund overlaps
25 Jan 2021 Turbulent skies for travel stocks
25 Jan 2021 Call to risk-weight investor loans
25 Jan 2021 Warning over fee for service disputes; TSB, Kiwibank rate cuts
25 Jan 2021 Warning on fee for service charges
24 Jan 2021 On the industry play-list: four chart-topping regulations for 2021
22 Jan 2021 F&P Healthcare propels share market higher
22 Jan 2021 Rate cuts continue at ASB, BNZ, Kiwibank
22 Jan 2021 ASB, BNZ, Kiwibank slash rates
22 Jan 2021 NZX Wealth Technologies adds another client and expects more
21 Jan 2021 NZ stocks, dollar rally as Democrats prepare stimulus
21 Jan 2021 Westpac drops negative OCR call; Changes to ASB broker team
21 Jan 2021 Westpac drops negative OCR call
21 Jan 2021 New ASB broker team
20 Jan 2021 FADC finds against AFA in Code of Conduct case
20 Jan 2021 F&P Healthcare pushes share market higher
20 Jan 2021 Exemption given for Australian advisers allowed to work in NZ
20 Jan 2021 Mortgage price wars heat up
20 Jan 2021 ANZ rate cut; Market momentum continues; Mortgage Express hire
20 Jan 2021 Market momentum tipped to continue
20 Jan 2021 Mortgage Express adds ex-Westpac man
20 Jan 2021 FMA seeks consultation on investor exclusion exemption notice
19 Jan 2021 Shares snap six-day slide
19 Jan 2021 Financial Advice NZ helping advisers ‘Ready, Set, Go!’ into new regime
19 Jan 2021 Why we won't get negative rates
19 Jan 2021 Why we won't get negative rates
19 Jan 2021 Five reasons why responsible investment will keep growing
18 Jan 2021 NZ shares fall for sixth session
18 Jan 2021 Be clear on clawbacks
18 Jan 2021 Be clear on clawbacks
18 Jan 2021 Effective vaccine, better earnings spur on markets
15 Jan 2021 NZX 50 finishes the week down 3 percent
15 Jan 2021 Lending predictions for 2021; Nelson Building Society cuts rates
15 Jan 2021 Lending predictions for 2021
15 Jan 2021 Adviser only KiwiSaver scheme launches
14 Jan 2021 Shares flat as smelter deal emerges
14 Jan 2021 ANZ predicts fewer OCR cuts
14 Jan 2021 ANZ drops negative OCR forecast
14 Jan 2021 ANZ predicts fewer OCR cuts
14 Jan 2021 Complaint levels show health of industry and market
13 Jan 2021 Shares slip with investors cautious
13 Jan 2021 Chatswood Consulting unveils new adviser web review service
13 Jan 2021 Advisers sceptical of turnaround time improvement
13 Jan 2021 Little hope on turnaround times
13 Jan 2021 FSCL warns investors to beware of cryptocurrency scams
12 Jan 2021 Equities and dollar retreat as bond yields climb
12 Jan 2021 November mortgage lending jumps to $9.2 billion
12 Jan 2021 Record mortgage lending in November
12 Jan 2021 Ponzi perpetrator Barry Kloogh not forced to pay reparations
11 Jan 2021 Shares tumble as investors return to work
11 Jan 2021 Westpac launches lowest-ever big bank rate
11 Jan 2021 Lowest-ever big bank rate from Westpac
09 Jan 2021 FNZ challenges regulator's decision
08 Jan 2021 NZX 50 finishes first week of 2021 up 3%
08 Jan 2021 [Weekly Wrap] Five predictions for 2021
08 Jan 2021 [Opinion] Embracing change key to supporting advice
07 Jan 2021 Meridian Energy shares keep on defying gravity
07 Jan 2021 Warning over retirement spending issued
02 Jan 2021 Pros and cons with life policy structures
02 Jan 2021 Predictions for 2021 – from the Laird’s Desk
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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.
1 week 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