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December 2009
02 Dec 2009 Independent definition a problem for advisers
02 Dec 2009 Opinion: Insurance needs variation
01 Dec 2009 Strategic investors about to get first payment
01 Dec 2009 SCF temporary chief
01 Dec 2009 PLAN NZ sold
01 Dec 2009 AMP refuses to front up on commissions in NZ
November 2009
30 Nov 2009 Dorchester to end its moratorium
30 Nov 2009 HSBC profit jumps despite higher bad debt charges, shrinking mortgage
30 Nov 2009 7 reasons why Allied's deal will succeed
30 Nov 2009 The choice for Hanover investors: Receivership or Allied Farmers?
30 Nov 2009 Allied’s Hanover deal better than receivership
30 Nov 2009 Allied’s Hanover deal better than receivership
30 Nov 2009 Do property investors really have "tax benefits?"
30 Nov 2009 Home-building approvals climb, adding weight to recovery
30 Nov 2009 News Round Up
29 Nov 2009 Rates Round Up
28 Nov 2009 [Book] Don't miss the next property cycle
27 Nov 2009 October reminder that all is not well
27 Nov 2009 TSB's profits and mortgage book grow strongly
27 Nov 2009 [Weekly Wrap] Sights targeted on commissions
27 Nov 2009 Stairway to heaven....yeah right
27 Nov 2009 Medical insurance requests speed up
27 Nov 2009 SHARE: Regulation Success Roadshow
27 Nov 2009 DNZ offer unfair to shareholders: van Schaardenburg
26 Nov 2009 KiwiSaver fee disclosure needs to improve: Mercer
26 Nov 2009 McLeod leaves South Canterbury, but sticks with Hubbard
26 Nov 2009 Women in Super Christmas Drinks
26 Nov 2009 SHARE: Regulation Success Roadshow
26 Nov 2009 SHARE: Regulation Success Roadshow
26 Nov 2009 China not the world's panacea: Magellan
26 Nov 2009 Celebrating tenant-landlord relationships
25 Nov 2009 Rumours of new Hanover bid greatly exaggerated
25 Nov 2009 Hanover's winners, losers and whingers
25 Nov 2009 8th Annual International Financial Reporting Standards Masterclass
25 Nov 2009 12th Annual Local Government Finance Forum
25 Nov 2009 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Workplace Savings
25 Nov 2009 ANZ's mortgage book shrinks, jumps or subsides - take your pick
25 Nov 2009 Magellan Asset Management’s Investment Briefing
25 Nov 2009 Practice management: The financial sailboat
25 Nov 2009 SHARE: Regulation Success Roadshow
25 Nov 2009 SHARE: Regulation Success Roadshow
25 Nov 2009 Fidelity moves to renewal commission model
25 Nov 2009 NZ to track Australia on commissions
24 Nov 2009 Bouquet for St Laurence; Brickbat for Strategic
24 Nov 2009 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Workplace Savings
24 Nov 2009 Magellan Asset Management’s Investment Briefing
24 Nov 2009 SHARE: Regulation Success Roadshow
24 Nov 2009 Mortgagee sales at record high
24 Nov 2009 Commission ban deferred but Ripoll effect to hit NZ
24 Nov 2009 Rates Round Up
24 Nov 2009 Getting monetary policy mix right
24 Nov 2009 Resurgent risk appetite breathes life back into debt market
23 Nov 2009 Signing up children as KiwiSavers is about to get harder.
23 Nov 2009 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Workplace Savings
23 Nov 2009 Magellan Asset Management’s Investment Briefing
23 Nov 2009 Funding brought forward for insulation scheme
23 Nov 2009 News round-up
20 Nov 2009 [Weekly Wrap] How's your moral compass?
20 Nov 2009 TNP: dealers must deliver
20 Nov 2009 ISO to rule on advice disputes
19 Nov 2009 Fisher Funds growth fund tops KiwiSaver survey
19 Nov 2009 CBS Canterbury ‘very happy’ with BB+ credit rating
19 Nov 2009 ASB posts $124m Sept qtr loss but underlying profitability rises
19 Nov 2009 ComCom chasing bigger fish after dodgy Invercargill property scheme
19 Nov 2009 Finsia: Delivery of KiwiSaver
19 Nov 2009 Boston Finance placed in receivership
19 Nov 2009 No advisers on Code Committee. No problem: Cotton
18 Nov 2009 Deposit guarantee scheme gets tweaked
18 Nov 2009 Fisher & Paykel and UDC hike rates
18 Nov 2009 Property indicator continues to exude energy
18 Nov 2009 Opinion: Advice counts - and you have to have a method
18 Nov 2009 Finsia industry update: Lifting New Zealanders’ financial literacy
18 Nov 2009 Allied Farmers offers hand of welcome to Hanover investors
18 Nov 2009 Allied and Hanover confirm deal
18 Nov 2009 TNP Annual Conference 2009
18 Nov 2009 Asteron appoints new senior leadership team
18 Nov 2009 Code Committee outlines ethics required
18 Nov 2009 Opinion: Advice counts - and you have to have a method
17 Nov 2009 Former AMP Capital boss becomes a Guardian
17 Nov 2009 Allied Kiwi says insurance sales up 50%
17 Nov 2009 Code Committee sackings unwarranted
17 Nov 2009 How much is your mortgage costing?
17 Nov 2009 Finsia industry update: Lifting New Zealanders’ financial literacy
17 Nov 2009 Hanover posts $102.9m loss, writes off $308.9m
17 Nov 2009 Aussie researcher plants flag in NZ
17 Nov 2009 Property finders likely to cause a few headaches for REAA
16 Nov 2009 ANZ backs RBNZ on rate rises
16 Nov 2009 The Hawk set to swoop on Cynotech
16 Nov 2009 Rates Round Up
16 Nov 2009 Harcourts pushes auctions as favoured selling strategy
16 Nov 2009 Confidence in housing remains high: ASB survey
15 Nov 2009 SIFA 2009 conference
13 Nov 2009 [Weekly Wrap] Believe it or not
13 Nov 2009 House prices hit 10-year high amid declining sales numbers
13 Nov 2009 REINZ residential highlights - October 2009
13 Nov 2009 Q&A: TOWER Parallel Portfolios
13 Nov 2009 Out on their own and looking to clean up the insurance broker industry
13 Nov 2009 Cowboys targeting leaky home owners
13 Nov 2009 Heading for Spicers
12 Nov 2009 Deposit war keeps bank margins under pressure
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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