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December 2020
01 Dec 2020 A2 Milk leads sharemarket decline
01 Dec 2020 Strategi Institute celebrates top rating
01 Dec 2020 Westpac changes OCR call; Mortgage Lab training and development hire
01 Dec 2020 Westpac changes OCR forecast
01 Dec 2020 nib appoints new adviser partner manager
01 Dec 2020 Mortgage Lab makes learning and development hire
01 Dec 2020 The two code standards that advisers need to know
November 2020
30 Nov 2020 F&P Healthcare gives NZX 50 an end of month surge
30 Nov 2020 Finalists announced for Good Returns Fund Manager of the Year 2020
30 Nov 2020 SBS cuts two, three, four-year rates
30 Nov 2020 First home buyers taking risks; Advisers react to DTI talk
30 Nov 2020 First home buyers taking risks
30 Nov 2020 Using nursery rhymes to promote life insurance
30 Nov 2020 C-suite strengthened at MMC
30 Nov 2020 Housing market to cool? Yeah Right
29 Nov 2020 Cigna policy enhancements and new adviser toolkit announced
28 Nov 2020 Privacy and process why it is crucial to your business
28 Nov 2020 Good Returns Fund Manager of the Year Awards back for 2020
27 Nov 2020 F&P Healthcare rally pushes shares higher
27 Nov 2020 Milford continues Australian expansion
27 Nov 2020 DTIs: what do advisers think?
27 Nov 2020 Reserve Bank eyes DTIs
27 Nov 2020 Why life expectancy has improved – and how much further we can go?
27 Nov 2020 Kernel finishes first year with capital raise
27 Nov 2020 Fidelity Life’s transformation continues with top culture award
26 Nov 2020 New digital partnership for nib
26 Nov 2020 NZX50 runs out of puff as Kiwi marches higher
26 Nov 2020 Reserve Bank eyes DTIs
26 Nov 2020 Health Funds Association NZ and Financial Services Council to merge
26 Nov 2020 Evidence mounts for NZ property market rebound
26 Nov 2020 COMMENT:
26 Nov 2020 Fidelity Life bags top culture award
26 Nov 2020 Record October mortgage lending; Is a negative OCR now less likely?
26 Nov 2020 Nikko AM disrupts KiwiSaver market with high performing ARK fund
25 Nov 2020 Shares soar amid flurry of local news
25 Nov 2020 Record October mortgage lending
25 Nov 2020 Is a negative OCR now less likely?
25 Nov 2020 Swan flies in; Graham lands new gig
25 Nov 2020 DTIs and high LVR lending a risk; Robertson intervenes on housing; BNZ brings back LVRs
25 Nov 2020 Financial Stability Report: DTI and high-risk lending a concern
25 Nov 2020 AMP Capital insider flies into top job
24 Nov 2020 Kiwi dollar spikes as RBNZ challenged on house prices
24 Nov 2020 Craigs makes three changes at the top
24 Nov 2020 Finance minister intervenes on house prices
24 Nov 2020 Finance minister intervenes on house prices
24 Nov 2020 BNZ reintroduces LVR limits
24 Nov 2020 How many people are still asking for home loan help?; ICBC rate cuts
24 Nov 2020 How many people are still asking for home loan help?
24 Nov 2020 NZ investors targeted by scammers: Why advisers need to take note
23 Nov 2020 NZ shares rally as retail data rebounds
23 Nov 2020 Tough conditions for first home buyers
23 Nov 2020 Tough conditions for first home buyers
22 Nov 2020 [The Wrap] What to make of changes in dealer group land
20 Nov 2020 NZ shares fall on Ryman result and strong currency
20 Nov 2020 Pathfinder wins big at the 2020 Sustainable Business Awards
20 Nov 2020 AMP's move to passive creates opportunities for active managers
20 Nov 2020 Industry calls for Welcome Home Loan changes; BNZ axes branches
20 Nov 2020 Professional indemnity insurance: What advisers need to know
19 Nov 2020 Hawkes Bay adviser joins Milestone
19 Nov 2020 Tourism Holdings leads second fall for NZ shares
19 Nov 2020 Harmoney floats
19 Nov 2020 Industry keen for Welcome Home Loan changes
19 Nov 2020 SHARE and Newpark confirm merger; Countdown to healthy homes
19 Nov 2020 BNZ to shut 38 branches
19 Nov 2020 FMA seeks consultation on proposed guidance for advertising
18 Nov 2020 A2 Milk ends 11-day share market rally
18 Nov 2020 SHARE confirms Newpark acquisition
18 Nov 2020 SHARE confirms Newpark acquisition
18 Nov 2020 Newpark sold to surprise buyer; NZFSG-Kepa merger closes; Big bank broker boss retires
18 Nov 2020 Newpark sold to a surprise buyer
18 Nov 2020 Newpark sold to a surprise buyer
18 Nov 2020 Select Wealth Management launches adviser focused KiwiSaver scheme
18 Nov 2020 NZFSG-Kepa finalise merger
17 Nov 2020 Second vaccine sees investors eye recovery
17 Nov 2020 FMA release full licence application guide
17 Nov 2020 New director appointed to Lifetime board
17 Nov 2020 Liberty Financial plans IPO; How low will mortgage rates go?
17 Nov 2020 Liberty Financial plans stock market float
17 Nov 2020 First quarter claims rise, nib report
17 Nov 2020 Just 14 days until new healthy homes standards kick in
17 Nov 2020 PRI’s updated framework a challenge for responsible investors
16 Nov 2020 Fidelity Life dials up new tech
16 Nov 2020 NZ shares and dollar rise as optimism lingers
16 Nov 2020 How low will one and two-year rates go?
16 Nov 2020 New Loan Market CEO; Will we get negative rates?; ANZ brings back LVRs
16 Nov 2020 Perception of conflict of interest serious as the real thing
16 Nov 2020 Why negative rates might not be needed
15 Nov 2020 [The Wrap] Are banks heading for the advice exit door?
13 Nov 2020 F&P Healthcare drives gain as investors hedged on pandemic
13 Nov 2020 Loan Market names new CEO
13 Nov 2020 ANZ reintroduces investor LVRs
13 Nov 2020 Does liability for advice stop when clients are sold?
13 Nov 2020 ASB slashes rates, brings back investor LVRs; Advisers divided on LVR return
13 Nov 2020 Westpac and Forsyth Barr confirm strategic partnership
12 Nov 2020 Big bank broker boss retires
12 Nov 2020 Shares flat as volatile prices settle
12 Nov 2020 ASB brings back investor LVRs
12 Nov 2020 Financial Advice NZ and FMA partner to launch full licensing application guide
12 Nov 2020 New Zealand death rates low, despite Covid-19
12 Nov 2020 Advisers divided on LVR return
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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