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November 2011
25 Nov 2011 Contact sets minimum interest on 30-year bonds at 8%
25 Nov 2011 Star analyst shuns Aussie stocks
24 Nov 2011 Quake death claims reach 100
24 Nov 2011 TSB lifts Sept Qtr profit, grows mortgage book
24 Nov 2011 Regulations benefit boutique managers
24 Nov 2011 Housing market confidence slips over quarter
23 Nov 2011 Understand and Relate
23 Nov 2011 Globalising forces to impact on NZ advisers
23 Nov 2011 What's your best rate?
22 Nov 2011 Broadlands withdraw from 'dead' debenture market
22 Nov 2011 OnePath's share of new business falls as lapses soar
22 Nov 2011 ASB's mortgage book shrinks for a sixth successive quarter
22 Nov 2011 Blue Star appoints replacement MD
22 Nov 2011 Providers split over election promises
22 Nov 2011 No need to jump to fixed: Westpac
21 Nov 2011 Rates Round Up: Nov 19
21 Nov 2011 News Round Up: Nov 21
21 Nov 2011 Potential - and pitfalls - in mortgagee sales
20 Nov 2011 Politicians and interest rates
20 Nov 2011 New life insurance business grew in Sept quarter
18 Nov 2011 Transpower launches $200m senior bond issue‏
18 Nov 2011 Major clean out at OnePath
18 Nov 2011 FMA warns against KiwiSaver fee double-dipping
18 Nov 2011 Stocks attractive despite government debt woes
17 Nov 2011 No certainty on recoveries for OPI debenture holders
17 Nov 2011 Kiwibank's bold move
17 Nov 2011 Kiwibank goes under 5%
17 Nov 2011 Interest in local government bonds increasing
16 Nov 2011 No salt with the Pepper loan
16 Nov 2011 No fair price for gold, but use it
16 Nov 2011 Ha portfolio sale includes rentals with ‘solid returns’
15 Nov 2011 Fees only one part of default fund debate
15 Nov 2011 Lifetime cuts ties with Mortgage Link
15 Nov 2011 IAG lifts 25 year bond issue to $325m, sets minimum coupon at 7.5%
15 Nov 2011 Share gets a new CEO
15 Nov 2011 Trustees up in arms over auditor disclaimers
15 Nov 2011 Lifetime to sever ties with Mortgage Link
15 Nov 2011 CGT and planners get both barrels from Brash
14 Nov 2011 S&P concerned about Auckland City Council's rising debt
14 Nov 2011 S&P cuts Telecom's rating to "A-" with stable outlook
14 Nov 2011 Risks and rewards (with the quiz)
14 Nov 2011 News Round Up: Nov 14
14 Nov 2011 Bollard warns of economic risks to NZ
14 Nov 2011 Little good news in latest Strategic Finance report
14 Nov 2011 Sorting the star from the slum landlords
11 Nov 2011 Contact increases 30-year bond issue to a maximum $250 million
11 Nov 2011 House prices up $9,000 in October
11 Nov 2011 Is fixed the way to go?
11 Nov 2011 The lure of attractive fixed home loan rates
11 Nov 2011 Sued adviser tripped up by paperwork
11 Nov 2011 REINZ Regional Commentaries – October 2011
10 Nov 2011 Registered but unable to give insurance advice
10 Nov 2011 Cookie-cutter ABS’s uncovered by first FMA monitoring
10 Nov 2011 Investors still active in capital, Hutt Valley, muted elsewhere
10 Nov 2011 Buy the Cashfow forecaster CD
09 Nov 2011 Mark Brighouse role no more rumour
09 Nov 2011 HSBC lowers its fixed rates
09 Nov 2011 KiwiSaver fee focus a ‘red herring’
09 Nov 2011 KiwiSaver increasingly retirement saving vehicle of choice
09 Nov 2011 Property prices up nationwide, parts of Auckland above 2007 peak
09 Nov 2011 QV October 2011 - the regions
09 Nov 2011 Investor confidence in rental property at decade low
08 Nov 2011 No implicit Govt guarantee with public KiwiSaver
08 Nov 2011 Perpetual adds two to its Wellington team
08 Nov 2011 Heartland holds excess cash ahead of government guarantee expiry
08 Nov 2011 FPSB appoints new chair, directors
08 Nov 2011 FMA begins offering advisers post-monitoring feedback
08 Nov 2011 SBS pitches for two year business
07 Nov 2011 New adviser and business owner at Mortgage Link
07 Nov 2011 Infratil launches $50m five-year bonds with 8% coupon
07 Nov 2011 Greens KiwiSaver policy nice idea but...
07 Nov 2011 Now the home loan battle begins
06 Nov 2011 Greens say they can lower KiwiSaver fees 40%
04 Nov 2011 KiwiSaver not too big for sharemarket (yet)
04 Nov 2011 Early appointments at AMP/AXA
04 Nov 2011 Caught out and cut
04 Nov 2011 Regulation poses relevancy challenges for professional bodies
04 Nov 2011 Auckland sales down, listings and prices up
03 Nov 2011 Loftus takes on risk management role
03 Nov 2011 RWC finishes; rate war battle commences
03 Nov 2011 Persistency the key in new OnePath remuneration model
03 Nov 2011 FMA preparing guidance for share recommendations
03 Nov 2011 BNZ arrives
03 Nov 2011 October sales rise but enquiries hit by RWC, holidays and Greek tragedy
02 Nov 2011 Harbour Commentary: Holes in the lifeboat
02 Nov 2011 Contact considers $150m subordinated bond issue
02 Nov 2011 Australian-invested funds underperform
02 Nov 2011 [UPDATED] Changes galore; ANZ National move
02 Nov 2011 Show me the (mentoring) money
01 Nov 2011 New insurance products the business for advisers
01 Nov 2011 Tyndall Monthly Commentary
01 Nov 2011 BOS puts advisers’ in hot seat over frozen funds
01 Nov 2011 AIA: Reconsidering remuneration
01 Nov 2011 Bonds safe(ish) despite debt crises
01 Nov 2011 Property Tutors defended in wake of FMA warning
01 Nov 2011 Asking prices hit new high in October
October 2011
31 Oct 2011 ANF receivers repaid less than half the govt guarantee
31 Oct 2011 Westpac takes on Kiwibank with cuts
31 Oct 2011 Comparing rate cuts
31 Oct 2011 Gems from the Principles of Risk Management
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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