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November 2012
30 Nov 2012 What will happen to interest rates next week?
30 Nov 2012 Rates held, but growing chance of a cut
30 Nov 2012 Mixed views on dispute scheme merger
30 Nov 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Awards take a hammering
30 Nov 2012 RE/MAX announces buyout
30 Nov 2012 Building activity picks up pace
30 Nov 2012 Politicians debate affordability
29 Nov 2012 Premium increase boosts Tower profit
29 Nov 2012 FSCL talks about Ross Asset Management
29 Nov 2012 ANZ named Bank of the Year
29 Nov 2012 Rangatira's stake in Partners
29 Nov 2012 ANZ looks to grow adviser numbers
29 Nov 2012 BNZ cuts rates and withdraws others; net result an increase
29 Nov 2012 Housing affordability up
28 Nov 2012 Aust govt moves to protect financial advisers
28 Nov 2012 Perpetual - Sold by Christmas
28 Nov 2012 Guardian Trust grows team
28 Nov 2012 Watch out for bad tenants: Poll
27 Nov 2012 Questions over Mike Pero valuation
27 Nov 2012 Frozen fund's unit price fall revealed
27 Nov 2012 Questions over Mike Pero valuation
27 Nov 2012 Buyers scope out Northland opportunities
27 Nov 2012 Another boost to property love affair
26 Nov 2012 Heartland bank decision pushed back
26 Nov 2012 Rates round-up: November 26
26 Nov 2012 A well trodden path to victory
26 Nov 2012 Mike Pero Mortgages value revealed
26 Nov 2012 How much is Mike Pero Mortgages worth now?
26 Nov 2012 Councillor slams penalty fee "rip-off"
26 Nov 2012 North Shore rental properties are city's most expensive
23 Nov 2012 Where will the 2013 IFA conference be held?
23 Nov 2012 Morgan's replacement at GMI named
23 Nov 2012 New directors for investment firm
23 Nov 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Loophole needs closing
23 Nov 2012 Advisers face ‘high hurdle’ with alternatives
23 Nov 2012 Trans-Tasman super portability a reality
23 Nov 2012 Kiwibank adds new special rate
23 Nov 2012 Partners’ fall in medical business ‘lower than anticipated’
23 Nov 2012 Policy may not be good deal: Hargreaves
23 Nov 2012 REINZ urges caution after ruling
22 Nov 2012 Kiwibank launches 6 month special
22 Nov 2012 Ross out of hospital
22 Nov 2012 Banks are advisers’ number one enemy: Yeo
22 Nov 2012 Low rates driving prices: ANZ
21 Nov 2012 Website pours out leads, and closes
21 Nov 2012 Home loan lending helps bank stability
21 Nov 2012 Search engine ‘minefield’ for advisers
21 Nov 2012 [UPDATED] A cut - at last
21 Nov 2012 Restrict foreign buyers: Greens
20 Nov 2012 Maori savings initiative
20 Nov 2012 Private equity delivers
20 Nov 2012 Ross exposes hole in financial adviser law
20 Nov 2012 Chch quakes boost awareness of buying cover
20 Nov 2012 When does a life policy really expire?
20 Nov 2012 Hint of xenophobia in concern at foreign buyers
20 Nov 2012 Capital gains tax won't work: ACT
19 Nov 2012 SFO investigating Ross Asset Management
19 Nov 2012 Rates round-up: November 19
19 Nov 2012 Fund managers spooked by Ross debacle
19 Nov 2012 Bank profits not as big as reported: BNZ
19 Nov 2012 Property Council: More analysis needed
19 Nov 2012 Kiwis think it's a good time to buy, but not in Auckland
18 Nov 2012 Our profits are misunderstood: Bank
18 Nov 2012 Northern lifestyle blocks popular
18 Nov 2012 Rental properties and cheaper houses in Labour's sights
16 Nov 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Where's the money gone?
16 Nov 2012 No Byrne on the Couch
16 Nov 2012 Laggard advisers told to sharpen up on RI
16 Nov 2012 Restrictions on bank LVRs
16 Nov 2012 Labour slams Hobsonville move
16 Nov 2012 Address affordability now: BNZ
16 Nov 2012 Auckland nears housing boom: Alexander
15 Nov 2012 Massive shortfall of funds at Ross Asset Management
15 Nov 2012 AMP caught up in adviser dispute
15 Nov 2012 Equities boost KiwiSaver growth funds
15 Nov 2012 LVR restrictions could work: NZPIF
15 Nov 2012 Lifestyle market firming: REINZ
14 Nov 2012 Health insurance discount - with a catch
14 Nov 2012 Residental property again #1
14 Nov 2012 Life-cycle funds no substitute for advice
14 Nov 2012 Advisers asked to help default review
14 Nov 2012 Labour calls for capital gains tax
14 Nov 2012 Trust law under Commission spotlight
14 Nov 2012 Rental property regains top spot with investors
13 Nov 2012 Grant Thornton adds bank adviser to ranks
13 Nov 2012 Banks lending up to 95%
13 Nov 2012 Advisers warned to watch what they write
13 Nov 2012 Govt meddling puts economy at risk
12 Nov 2012 Rates round-up: November 12
12 Nov 2012 AFA qualification bar stays at level 5
12 Nov 2012 Home loan rates go up
12 Nov 2012 High LVR loans come with warning
12 Nov 2012 Hamilton market heating up: Agency
09 Nov 2012 How's your bank?
09 Nov 2012 New IFA CEO named
09 Nov 2012 IFA reveals new CEO
09 Nov 2012 Resimac offers special launch rates
09 Nov 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Ross failure leaves questions
09 Nov 2012 New lender; Westpac gets down with its competitors
09 Nov 2012 Ticket-clipping organisations under fire
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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