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October 1999
31 Oct 1999 Few bargains left on floating rates
31 Oct 1999 Weekly briefs
31 Oct 1999 The 'right of citizenship' wins out
31 Oct 1999 The 'right of citizenship' wins out
29 Oct 1999 RSB investors likely to get all their money back
28 Oct 1999 Watch out for the Wizard...
28 Oct 1999 Adding value to syndicated property
28 Oct 1999 The last thing superannuation needs is revolutionary change: Anderton
28 Oct 1999 Thinking Ahead - Planning your savings
27 Oct 1999 National Bank holds out on mortgage rates
27 Oct 1999 Glossary of terms
26 Oct 1999 ISI floats "radical" tax package
26 Oct 1999 Weekly briefs
25 Oct 1999 Fraudsters found fiddling the figures
21 Oct 1999 Minto takes up new position
21 Oct 1999 Property market picks up
21 Oct 1999 Small company funds quarter in the spotlight
21 Oct 1999 New Zealand’s publicly provided Retirement Income
21 Oct 1999 Should NZ Super be a benefit or an entitlement
20 Oct 1999 The National Bank Investment Race - Just like Investment Markets
19 Oct 1999 Tower manages its<br>fund line-up
19 Oct 1999 BNZ move could spark further rate increases
19 Oct 1999 We've got nothing to hide: Russell
19 Oct 1999 A policy with everything
19 Oct 1999 The Greens super policy
18 Oct 1999 What the research houses have to say about <i>Consumers'</i> list of t
18 Oct 1999 New book on mortgage concepts
18 Oct 1999 Property News
18 Oct 1999 Home affordability remains stable
17 Oct 1999 Testing <i>Consumer's</i> managed fund test
17 Oct 1999 Weekly briefs
15 Oct 1999 NZ First resurrects its once defeated super policy
14 Oct 1999 Consumer's latest investment advice
14 Oct 1999 Spring sparse on specials
14 Oct 1999 Let the super talk begin
14 Oct 1999 New Zealanders’ Living Standards in the new Millennium
14 Oct 1999 NZers confused about policy
14 Oct 1999 End this Game of Political Football!
14 Oct 1999 Peters' super promises no comfort for workers - CTU
14 Oct 1999 New Zealand First Super scheme expensive risky and unfair
14 Oct 1999 Peters' policy confused and dishonest
14 Oct 1999 NZ First announces super policy
13 Oct 1999 BNZ says its funds are bigger than anyone else's
13 Oct 1999 Supertalk - your place to learn about and discuss superannuation
13 Oct 1999 The window is getting smaller
12 Oct 1999 Finalists teach a thing or two about financial planning
12 Oct 1999 Property news
12 Oct 1999 Fixed rates continue to firm
12 Oct 1999 Weekly briefs
11 Oct 1999 Slight increase picked for house prices
11 Oct 1999 WestpacTrust falls short but is happy
11 Oct 1999 The role of financial planning
10 Oct 1999 AMP & <i>Good Returns</I> launch superannuation website
09 Oct 1999 Super books
08 Oct 1999 Beware of the writedowns
08 Oct 1999 Financial Planner of the Year Awards
08 Oct 1999 Policies analysed
07 Oct 1999 Rodger Spiller named Financial Planner of the Year
06 Oct 1999 "Watchful caution" in property market, says REINZ
05 Oct 1999 Cushing's crushing
05 Oct 1999 Pressure mounts to leave rates alone
04 Oct 1999 Pressure mounts to leave rates alone
03 Oct 1999 Weekly briefs
September 1999
30 Sep 1999 Trustees' increasing obligation to inquire
30 Sep 1999 Debt Forgiveness in Consideration of Natural Love and Affection
30 Sep 1999 CSFB expands its leaders series
29 Sep 1999 OCR unchanged, floating rates stable
29 Sep 1999 Cowpats flying over the farm
29 Sep 1999 Investors have little ability to influence the manager
29 Sep 1999 Why has the PRG report been ignored?
28 Sep 1999 Compulsory Super: No way to solve super
27 Sep 1999 Taking technology to the Sky
27 Sep 1999 It's spring...time to prune back your loan
27 Sep 1999 Competition hots up amongst online brokers
27 Sep 1999 Who's charging what for online broking
27 Sep 1999 Access Brokerage's fully integrated Internet trading service
27 Sep 1999 Secondary schools super comp
26 Sep 1999 Weekly briefs
23 Sep 1999 ACC changes mean income protection premiums likely to rise
23 Sep 1999 Questions you need to ask politicians
23 Sep 1999 Labour vs. National- Where's the Smart Money?
22 Sep 1999 Christmas payout on the cards for RSB holders
22 Sep 1999 Warning, warning - pull out
22 Sep 1999 Investors still keen on property
21 Sep 1999 End of an era
21 Sep 1999 United - Golden Plan for Positive Ageing
21 Sep 1999 National has two main initiatives
21 Sep 1999 NZ First to campaign heavily on super
21 Sep 1999 Labour plans to establish a publicly funded superannuation scheme
21 Sep 1999 Alliance
21 Sep 1999 Pointers, not policy
20 Sep 1999 Bouquets and brickbats from the Banking Ombudsman
20 Sep 1999 Weekly briefs
17 Sep 1999 Finalists announced
16 Sep 1999 Fixed rates increase across the board
16 Sep 1999 Investment trusts band together
15 Sep 1999 Health insurance companies 'caught red-handed'
14 Sep 1999 Property market off the boil
14 Sep 1999 Showdown at the NZRPT corral
13 Sep 1999 WestpacTrust offer: How to get some of your bank fees back
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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