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December 2004
07 Dec 2004 Rule change could help clean up property
07 Dec 2004 Top price for Waikato farmland
07 Dec 2004 Tough times for rural rest homes
07 Dec 2004 Households got richer last year
07 Dec 2004 Strategic Finance's rating confirmed
07 Dec 2004 FundSource adds two people
06 Dec 2004 Was the right decision reached?
06 Dec 2004 Adviserlink Fundamentals & Processes
06 Dec 2004 Market Review: A look into our crystal ball
06 Dec 2004 Reserve Bank expected to leave rates on hold
03 Dec 2004 Two key people leave fund management firms
03 Dec 2004 Bevin leaves Tower
03 Dec 2004 ING's CDO man leaves
03 Dec 2004 More on Stobo...and something quite different
03 Dec 2004 Life insurance under commission's gaze
03 Dec 2004 BNZ's ads escape censure - just
02 Dec 2004 House prices set for slump
02 Dec 2004 Pitfalls for rental property owners
02 Dec 2004 Softening in prices on way
02 Dec 2004 Capital Properties might sell management rights
02 Dec 2004 Owning home no bed of roses
02 Dec 2004 Timing alone is not enough - Mary Holm
02 Dec 2004 The Risk that Often Isn't Risky
02 Dec 2004 Campervan plan for Aro Valley site
02 Dec 2004 Fears rates could go up
02 Dec 2004 Run-down bach sells for $445,000
02 Dec 2004 National's Superannuation Policy
02 Dec 2004 Stobo urges input into report
01 Dec 2004 AMP new appointments
01 Dec 2004 Resources to strengthen NZ Super Fund governance
01 Dec 2004 ASFONZ and Women In Super combined breakfast
01 Dec 2004 Govt proposes new tax rules for securities
01 Dec 2004 Kiwis like to pay off debts
01 Dec 2004 Capital Properties New Zealand Announcement
01 Dec 2004 Kiwis spending quarter of budget on their housing
01 Dec 2004 LBA confirms expulsion
01 Dec 2004 Are two year rates a good deal?
November 2004
30 Nov 2004 National U-turn: White flag or commonsense?
30 Nov 2004 The news behind the smoke and mirrors
30 Nov 2004 NZiRA / Tower 2004 seminar series
30 Nov 2004 Latest insurance market share figures
30 Nov 2004 Conference update
30 Nov 2004 Business sessions
30 Nov 2004 Brash flip-flop welcome
30 Nov 2004 Bevin says fees must come down
30 Nov 2004 Nats look to give Retirement Commission more power
29 Nov 2004 Quake cost could top $1m
29 Nov 2004 Sunlight flicker annoys resident
29 Nov 2004 Battle looms over second sinking house
29 Nov 2004 IRD targets top 100 Kiwis on rich list
29 Nov 2004 Auckland spreading faster than expected
29 Nov 2004 Non-conforming loans take off in Oz
29 Nov 2004 Term deposits won't give best returns, investment expert warns
29 Nov 2004 Lim reports on potentially contaminated soils halted
29 Nov 2004 Property portfolio lifts Kiwi profit
29 Nov 2004 Waiwera set to make a splash as hot property
29 Nov 2004 Too many Kiwis captured by their cards
29 Nov 2004 TOWER roadshow
29 Nov 2004 General Finance raises its own funds
29 Nov 2004 News Round Up
28 Nov 2004 Keynote speakers
28 Nov 2004 What, when and where
28 Nov 2004 Speaker profile - Dr Rod Carr
28 Nov 2004 Speaker profile - Godfrey Phillips
28 Nov 2004 Speaker profile - Jason Lea
28 Nov 2004 Speaker profile - John Anderson
28 Nov 2004 Speaker profile - Robyn Moore
28 Nov 2004 Awards and awards
26 Nov 2004 Sponsorship opportunities
26 Nov 2004 New ANZ National Bank directors
26 Nov 2004 Dunne applauds National’s superannuation change
26 Nov 2004 Dinosaur parties go hand-in-hand into the swamp
26 Nov 2004 Nats to back Cullen's fund
26 Nov 2004 Nats to back Cullen's fund
26 Nov 2004 Non-conforming loans take off in Oz
25 Nov 2004 Nats take a step forward on super: Cullen
25 Nov 2004 Women in Super
25 Nov 2004 Bevin worries about the outlook for adviser regulation
24 Nov 2004 Related party loans to end at Pacific Retail
24 Nov 2004 Record price for Ohope coastal property
24 Nov 2004 NZ residential market awaken from winter slumber
24 Nov 2004 NZ lifestyle properties continue to buck the trend
24 Nov 2004 Quarry go-ahead upsets residents
24 Nov 2004 Aucklanders pay high price to live the high life
24 Nov 2004 ING Property Trust posts $11M profit
24 Nov 2004 Blue Chip announces first dividend
24 Nov 2004 Kiwibank stays aloof from home loans price war
24 Nov 2004 Auckland City Council may do U-turn on tagging potentially poisoned properties
24 Nov 2004 Sinking house doomed from the beginning
24 Nov 2004 Council ponders Oakura road reserve wrangle
24 Nov 2004 $8m new cost for council building work
24 Nov 2004 Tower Building incentives
24 Nov 2004 Homeowner won't budge
24 Nov 2004 TOWER roadshow
24 Nov 2004 Changing market has landlords offering enticements
24 Nov 2004 Kiwi Income Property Trust lifts half year profit
24 Nov 2004 Finding money for study
24 Nov 2004 Urbus shuffles its office portfolio
24 Nov 2004 Kiwi Income snares 19.9% of Capital Properties
24 Nov 2004 Tougher rules for advisers to hit Parliament soon
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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