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December 2015
02 Dec 2015 Market softening in the Super City
02 Dec 2015 Fund managers told how FMA wants performance fees disclosed
02 Dec 2015 Apartment price data misleading
01 Dec 2015 Auckland market softening - QV
01 Dec 2015 Price growth flat – bar apartments
01 Dec 2015 Brokers refer tricky clients to LendMe
01 Dec 2015 Synergy adds second BDM
01 Dec 2015 TSB cuts rate; CU Baywide gets good ratings news
01 Dec 2015 Advisers could better tap KiwiSaver market
01 Dec 2015 Five years to make living wage as adviser
November 2015
30 Nov 2015 JMIS gets most of Select Wealth money across
30 Nov 2015 NZSF appoints direct investment head
30 Nov 2015 Auckland building consents increase
30 Nov 2015 RMA reforms just tinkering
30 Nov 2015 Seeking Goldilocks for FAA changes
30 Nov 2015 Finding Goldilocks solution
27 Nov 2015 Barnes counter-sues Kerr over trustee company sale
27 Nov 2015 Grosvenor picks up another $440 million in FUM
27 Nov 2015 Rabo puts Edmonds' funds on direct platform
27 Nov 2015 RMA won't fix Auckland housing crisis
27 Nov 2015 No plans to cull disputes schemes
26 Nov 2015 Win for Hawkes Bay advisers
26 Nov 2015 Mixed response to RMA reforms
26 Nov 2015 Confusion doesn’t help shortage
26 Nov 2015 Back in the black
26 Nov 2015 Blow to investor lending
26 Nov 2015 UDC sees debenture book growth
26 Nov 2015 Big drop in investor lending
26 Nov 2015 Cautious approval for options paper
26 Nov 2015 NPT profits up as new CFO joins
25 Nov 2015 Macquarie launches roboadvice
25 Nov 2015 Commissions report gets no traction with MBIE
25 Nov 2015 Evening the odds
25 Nov 2015 The Co-operative Bank looks long
25 Nov 2015 The Co-op Bank goes long; FAA Options paper out
25 Nov 2015 RFA standards set to lift
25 Nov 2015 Southern Cross tackles fraud
25 Nov 2015 New group may replace FSC
25 Nov 2015 New housing barely dents shortage
24 Nov 2015 Options paper coming
24 Nov 2015 Market faces sharp correction risk
24 Nov 2015 Sovereign boss quits
24 Nov 2015 'Clear mistakes' in MJW report
24 Nov 2015 FSC report a missed opportunity: Naylor
24 Nov 2015 MJW missed their chance
24 Nov 2015 McGuffie set for February trial
23 Nov 2015 Top ratings for KiwiSaver schemes
23 Nov 2015 4 of the best MJW quotes
23 Nov 2015 The birth of the Retirement Income Group
23 Nov 2015 Fidelity joins FSC exodus
23 Nov 2015 A blunt instrument in the wrong hands: PAA
23 Nov 2015 State houses for sale
23 Nov 2015 Migration inflow up – again
23 Nov 2015 Rental WOF needed to address inequality - academic
23 Nov 2015 MJW report scores a D
23 Nov 2015 SBS offers a home loan rate under 4%
23 Nov 2015 Amazing. A 3.99% home loan rate
23 Nov 2015 Report slams life insurance conflicts of interest
23 Nov 2015 Report tore apart FSC
23 Nov 2015 Advisers replacing policies are doing their jobs
23 Nov 2015 Advisers: MJW report not fair
20 Nov 2015 Asteron quits FSC
20 Nov 2015 Advisers should pay more attention to ESG factors: Super Fund
19 Nov 2015 AMP appoints new distribution head
19 Nov 2015 BNZ introduces new rate; Westpac moves
19 Nov 2015 Rents stall around New Zealand
19 Nov 2015 PAA: Mud-slinging damaging the industry
19 Nov 2015 PAA offers FSC support
19 Nov 2015 Roboadvice a game-changer: Resnik
18 Nov 2015 Bill wants to ban foreigners buying existing houses
18 Nov 2015 KiwiSaver advisers 'pushing products'
18 Nov 2015 FSC launches income protection campaign
18 Nov 2015 FMA raises KiwiSaver bar
18 Nov 2015 Getting down to business
17 Nov 2015 Keane joins Camelot
17 Nov 2015 Raft of changes for insurance companies
17 Nov 2015 Remuneration is not the big problem: Sovereign
17 Nov 2015 Final property tax proposed
17 Nov 2015 Advice under FMA spotlight
17 Nov 2015 OCR cuts on way
17 Nov 2015 MJW report deails: Cut soft commission, slash upfronts
17 Nov 2015 Chinese bonds offer returns, stability, ICBC says
16 Nov 2015 Top 5 spots to look for yield in Auckland
16 Nov 2015 More OCR cuts to come
16 Nov 2015 Listed debt market grows
16 Nov 2015 Rental WOF still on the cards
16 Nov 2015 Grosvenor management buy out founding financial planners
16 Nov 2015 More female insurance leaders needed: Tereora
15 Nov 2015 Plans outlined for bankrupt KiwiSaver members
14 Nov 2015 Rental WOF still on the cards
13 Nov 2015 Asteron and Fidelity stick with FSC - for now
13 Nov 2015 Churn not advisers' problem, coach says
13 Nov 2015 New law may sting landlords dodging capital gains tax
13 Nov 2015 Landlords warned: IRD is watching
13 Nov 2015 DIMS rules set bar for whole industry
12 Nov 2015 NZX lists ETFs
12 Nov 2015 Regional markets fire up
12 Nov 2015 MTF case reaches Supreme Court
12 Nov 2015 Housing hangover settles on Auckland
12 Nov 2015 The time is up for the FSC
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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