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December 2016
03 Dec 2016 Mortgage group writes to Finance Minister about DTIs
02 Dec 2016 New CEO at Southern Cross Healthcare
02 Dec 2016 Back to the novel for holiday reading
02 Dec 2016 DTI ratios not expected any time soon
02 Dec 2016 Booster boosts board
01 Dec 2016 Unintended consequences
01 Dec 2016 Buying or selling property? Know your tax obligations
01 Dec 2016 FAA review delayed
01 Dec 2016 FAA review delayed
01 Dec 2016 Slowing growth trend continues - QV
01 Dec 2016 AMP takes out top award
01 Dec 2016 Green’s rental bill fails
01 Dec 2016 More options for buyers
01 Dec 2016 Addressing housing market risks - RBNZ
01 Dec 2016 Global infrastructure hit by two big risk factors
November 2016
30 Nov 2016 Devon to get new MD
30 Nov 2016 Funding new worry for RBNZ
30 Nov 2016 Fixed term tenancies most popular
30 Nov 2016 Addressing housing market risks - RBNZ
30 Nov 2016 DTIs not in the near future - economists
30 Nov 2016 Growing options for mortgage advisers
30 Nov 2016 RBNZ readies to deploy DTI tools
30 Nov 2016 RBNZ asks for DTI tools
29 Nov 2016 Tufui wins top SBS award
29 Nov 2016 Jack Regan gets a new role in AMP reshuffle
29 Nov 2016 Wellington market moves on
29 Nov 2016 SBS grows and adjusts commission levels
29 Nov 2016 Heartland interested in UDC
29 Nov 2016 Price fixing earns agency $1.25 million fine
29 Nov 2016 Avanti gets good report card
29 Nov 2016 Targeted rates proposed for housing developments
29 Nov 2016 Westpac follows along
29 Nov 2016 Investor success bubbling away
29 Nov 2016 FAA licensing process will be bigger job thn FMCA: Mason
28 Nov 2016 Castle Point appoints distributor
28 Nov 2016 [Updated] Fund managers on home straight of licencing race
28 Nov 2016 Investor success bubbling away
25 Nov 2016 Heartland Bank to re-enter residential mortgages
25 Nov 2016 Ringing in the rate changes
25 Nov 2016 Performance fee update – lesson for NZ
25 Nov 2016 FMCA compliance tough but worthwhile: AMP
24 Nov 2016 Downbound trend for investor lending
24 Nov 2016 Devil in property tax detail
24 Nov 2016 Bentley adds new manager
24 Nov 2016 Primed for future growth
24 Nov 2016 ANZ sets new highs
24 Nov 2016 Robo offer will soon become essential for advisers: Symons
24 Nov 2016 Bill introduced to lift adviser requirements
24 Nov 2016 KiwiSaver quake moves spark warning
23 Nov 2016 Westpac makes substantial change
23 Nov 2016 Give your ABS a check-up
23 Nov 2016 Demand leads to new renovation cover
23 Nov 2016 Rents on the rise
22 Nov 2016 Asteron offers quake help
22 Nov 2016 Non-bank lender moves into peer to peer lending
22 Nov 2016 Financial Advice NZ offers online feedback option
22 Nov 2016 Before you sign on the dotted line
21 Nov 2016 Leaky building mega suit hits court
21 Nov 2016 NZ commercial market global star
21 Nov 2016 BNZ offers 4% term deposit rate
21 Nov 2016 Another bank increases rates
21 Nov 2016 Milford to establish private equity fund
21 Nov 2016 Banks raise concern about 'fee-chasers'
21 Nov 2016 New peer-to-peer mortgage provider licensed
21 Nov 2016 'Lower forever' no longer safe interest rate view
19 Nov 2016 Regional gap in estate planning reveals Aucklanders on thin ice
18 Nov 2016 Post-earthquake OCR cut unlikely
18 Nov 2016 Debate rages over foreign buyer data
18 Nov 2016 Inflation returns to the global economy?
18 Nov 2016 Argument rages over foreign buyer data
18 Nov 2016 Growth fund that shrank prompts client complaint
18 Nov 2016 Investors may expect more from NZ in wake of quake
18 Nov 2016 FMA gets set for new regime
17 Nov 2016 Deal thaws insurance freeze
17 Nov 2016 Bright future for Asset in Auckland
17 Nov 2016 Brokers unhappy with ASB's new refix process
17 Nov 2016 New sales head for Partners
17 Nov 2016 First taste of roboadvice bitter for brokers
17 Nov 2016 Insurance freeze puts property deals on hold
17 Nov 2016 Property deals on hold due to insurance freeze
17 Nov 2016 Kiwibank shifts its focus
17 Nov 2016 Insuring houses tougher post quakes
17 Nov 2016 Ditch benchmarks in client conversations, advisers told
16 Nov 2016 Complectus IPO deferred
16 Nov 2016 House sales drop nationwide
16 Nov 2016 Advisers told to form connections with clients' kids
16 Nov 2016 Kiwis seek RI information - but not from advisers
16 Nov 2016 Unitary Plan moves forward
15 Nov 2016 Fidelity offers earthquake assistance
15 Nov 2016 ANZ first bank to offer earthquake package
15 Nov 2016 Drop in mortgage-free properties
15 Nov 2016 Orkibi’s rules to investing
15 Nov 2016 Advisers told to warn clients off cold-callers
15 Nov 2016 FMA warns code changes must be adopted within months
14 Nov 2016 Start your Insuretech project now
14 Nov 2016 Quake impact likely to be modest
14 Nov 2016 Decline in sales nationwide
14 Nov 2016 Co-Op Bank latest to increase rates
14 Nov 2016 Fisher to leave Partners Life
14 Nov 2016 Opportunities in post-Trump world
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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