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November 2014
24 Nov 2014 Let's consider wealth tax: Little
21 Nov 2014 LM founder Peter Drake faces legal action
21 Nov 2014 BNZ takes axes to three-year rates
21 Nov 2014 We have the rules, but how will it work?
21 Nov 2014 FMA: Pressure on finances
21 Nov 2014 Mixed bag for regional performance
20 Nov 2014 Kiwibank hits the brakes
20 Nov 2014 Westpac's Special rates of change
20 Nov 2014 Kiwibank hits lending brakes
19 Nov 2014 Encourage KiwiSaver engagement: ANZ
19 Nov 2014 Accept regulatory change, new committee member says
19 Nov 2014 Allow banks to assess borrowers' risk: Newland
19 Nov 2014 A Labour win for landlords to celebrate
18 Nov 2014 Former OnePath Life boss gets retirement job
18 Nov 2014 Boyle: Challenges ahead for advisers
18 Nov 2014 Call for property manager regulation
17 Nov 2014 Fidelity up for top award
17 Nov 2014 Former PIMCO boss gets a big bonus: Report
17 Nov 2014 Website encourages churn
17 Nov 2014 Harcourts: LVRs bad for NZ
17 Nov 2014 Auckland rents rise
17 Nov 2014 Bank's LVR move the right one, economists say
15 Nov 2014 ASB group goes sub six percent
15 Nov 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Some questions for the regulators
14 Nov 2014 New members for Code Committee
14 Nov 2014 Five-plus property investment rule changing
14 Nov 2014 Property investors maybe subject to new income rule
14 Nov 2014 OnePath tweaks products
14 Nov 2014 Rumours AMP dropping active stance
13 Nov 2014 Diversification - what's the point?
13 Nov 2014 Cut insurance costs with KiwiSaver
13 Nov 2014 Audits a struggle for advisers
13 Nov 2014 Auckland median price hits new record
13 Nov 2014 30-year interest-only loan 'provides options'
12 Nov 2014 North Asia and deflation
12 Nov 2014 LVR restrictions staying
12 Nov 2014 LVR restrictions to stay for some time
12 Nov 2014 DIMS 'continuum' may prove frustrating
11 Nov 2014 SPI directors banned for five years
11 Nov 2014 Former AXA man joins Southern Cross
11 Nov 2014 Advisers 'out of their depths'
11 Nov 2014 Bond investing and financial advisers
11 Nov 2014 Rents soar in Christchurch
11 Nov 2014 Council site still struggling
10 Nov 2014 Asteron takes out gong, again
10 Nov 2014 BNZ and RESIMAC move rates
10 Nov 2014 FMA wants feedback on personalised DIMS rules
10 Nov 2014 AML non-compliance revealed
10 Nov 2014 Buyers feeling more confident: ASB
08 Nov 2014 Commercial returns at six-year high
07 Nov 2014 [Weekly Wrap] It's going to take a long time
07 Nov 2014 What is regulation's purpose?
07 Nov 2014 What do you think of councils' land use rules?
06 Nov 2014 What the mortgage leaders are thinking
06 Nov 2014 Review a starting point for FAA discussion
06 Nov 2014 Auckland accelerates away again
05 Nov 2014 SBS moves down again
05 Nov 2014 New advisory council for FDRS
05 Nov 2014 DIMS regulations approved
05 Nov 2014 200% commissions raise eyebrows
05 Nov 2014 Trade Me prices at record high
05 Nov 2014 Agreement tackles double commission conundrum
05 Nov 2014 Market recovers from election uncertainty
04 Nov 2014 Don't ditch growth at 50
04 Nov 2014 Private landlords may be big winners in Govt plans
04 Nov 2014 Pressure on prices, Harcourts says
04 Nov 2014 Night flights 'boost Queenstown market'
03 Nov 2014 NZ Super Fund drops AMP
03 Nov 2014 PGC trading resumes
03 Nov 2014 Decline in health insurance rates stabilising
03 Nov 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Why doesn't everyone have to put the clients' interests first?
03 Nov 2014 More short term home loan rate cuts
03 Nov 2014 Break down investment costs: O'Grady
03 Nov 2014 October rebound reported
03 Nov 2014 ASB expects migration price pressure
October 2014
31 Oct 2014 ANZ staff drive solid result
31 Oct 2014 Co-operative Bank loses court battle over branding
31 Oct 2014 HSBC does it again
31 Oct 2014 Is the Financial Advisers Act working?
31 Oct 2014 FMA has eye on commissions
31 Oct 2014 Hamilton not cheap, affordable
31 Oct 2014 Consents drop 10%
31 Oct 2014 Price rises not consistent
30 Oct 2014 OCR good news for borrowers
30 Oct 2014 BNZ books big profit on lending turnaround
30 Oct 2014 Kepa head of ops leaves
30 Oct 2014 Here is what the RB governor said today
30 Oct 2014 What the Reserve Bank said
30 Oct 2014 Investors 'not fazed' by Gross departure
29 Oct 2014 PGC shares suspended
29 Oct 2014 Please complete our lending survey
29 Oct 2014 Aussie providers slow to accept portability
29 Oct 2014 Advisers not recognising complaints: FSCL
29 Oct 2014 Confidence in agents slipping
28 Oct 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Drumming up complaints unnecessary
28 Oct 2014 New Nelson adviser for Plus4
28 Oct 2014 Changes to interest rate forecasts
28 Oct 2014 Adviser designations need attention: Scott
28 Oct 2014 OCR predictions change
27 Oct 2014 Big changes to interest rate forecasts
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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