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December 2021
01 Dec 2021 Premiums refunded after funeral cover exceeds sum insured
01 Dec 2021 Milford makes significant board appointment
01 Dec 2021 RBNZ outlines options for cash system reform
01 Dec 2021 Reserve Bank appoints new Assistant Governor
01 Dec 2021 Floating higher; What's keeping advisers awake at night
01 Dec 2021 Southern Cross offers free wellbeing services
01 Dec 2021 New Reserve Bank Assistant Governor appointed
01 Dec 2021 Kiwi Wealth appoints familiar face as new CEO
01 Dec 2021 Default-Day for KiwiSaver
01 Dec 2021 RBNZ reviews banks' risks
November 2021
30 Nov 2021 NZ shares bounce from omicron sell-off
30 Nov 2021 [Opinion] Stuff the mainstream media
30 Nov 2021 KiwiSaver default funds - all you need to know
30 Nov 2021 Longer term rates in vogue; Revamped non-bank lender
30 Nov 2021 Vax chat hits a raw nerve - advisers can do better
30 Nov 2021 How cities need to change to adapt to climate change
30 Nov 2021 Borrowers looking to longer terms thanks to Covid
30 Nov 2021 Omicron - one step forward, two steps back for economic recovery
29 Nov 2021 Omicron ordeal knocks NZ index 200 points
29 Nov 2021 Fidelity Life drops the jargon, boosts adviser support
29 Nov 2021 Asteron adds specific injury cover to legacy products
29 Nov 2021 Three new recruits for Fidelity Life
29 Nov 2021 Vaccination status no issue for Southern Cross Healthcare
29 Nov 2021 Guidelines for Covid-infected people living in apartments
29 Nov 2021 Old company with a new name
27 Nov 2021 [The Wrap] Death and disease - and the jab
26 Nov 2021 Nu-covid sends shares tumbling
26 Nov 2021 Earnings surprises support equity returns
26 Nov 2021 Making drawdown a success
26 Nov 2021 Squirrel bites into residential mortgage investments
25 Nov 2021 F&P Healthcare props up NZX50
25 Nov 2021 More changes at the top for the FMA
25 Nov 2021 Covid vaccination status a watching brief for NZ insurers
25 Nov 2021 Westpac's problems exposed; Orr says bank put best foot forward
25 Nov 2021 Westpac's governance problems detailed
25 Nov 2021 Easy Crypto expands with a new chief of staff
25 Nov 2021 nib recognised as an inclusive workplace
25 Nov 2021 CoFI adds more challenges to financial services
25 Nov 2021 Adrian Orr: We put our best foot forward
24 Nov 2021 Stock market rallies as RBNZ eases rates higher
24 Nov 2021 RBNZ hikes OCR
24 Nov 2021 Reaction to OCR hike
24 Nov 2021 RBNZ hikes rates, and promises more
24 Nov 2021 Smartshares gains new director - Lindsay Wright resigns
24 Nov 2021 House prices materially falling chorus from banks
24 Nov 2021 DTI consultation starts
24 Nov 2021 RBNZ adds new option to DTI consultation
24 Nov 2021 FMA releases FAP self-assessment tools
24 Nov 2021 More people using financial advisers: ASB
23 Nov 2021 Shares slump as rate hike looms
23 Nov 2021 Accuro supports Wellington air ambulance
23 Nov 2021 Low deposit loans getting harder
23 Nov 2021 Business mix is critical to good coverage
23 Nov 2021 ANZ too clamps down on low-deposit loans
23 Nov 2021 ESG expert joins Forsyth Barr
23 Nov 2021 Advisers can take on the climate change challenge
23 Nov 2021 Banks need to make CCCFA easy for advisers: Gough
22 Nov 2021 Shares slump as rate hike looms
22 Nov 2021 BNZ has further toughened its lending criteria
22 Nov 2021 OCR to rise; Hear the latest from Tony Alexander
22 Nov 2021 Will it be a 25 or 50 basis point rate increase this week?
20 Nov 2021 Heartland increase HER LVR
20 Nov 2021 What is really behind Responsible Investing and ESG ratings?
19 Nov 2021 Ryman Healthcare leads market lower
19 Nov 2021 Nuclear weapons and nicotine alternatives a no-go zone for responsible investors
18 Nov 2021 NZ shares slide as inflation expectations jump
18 Nov 2021 Asteron Life wins top award - AIA exec honoured
18 Nov 2021 RBNZ chief economist goes
18 Nov 2021 The cost of retirement increases - again
18 Nov 2021 Tower's flood modelling to change premiums
17 Nov 2021 NZ sharemarket lower as Plexure falls 13%
17 Nov 2021 Super fund names new head of portfolio investments
17 Nov 2021 Climate change disclosures - the FMA's regulatory response
17 Nov 2021 Rising stars and old hands - awards wrap
17 Nov 2021 Regulation will restore confidence in financial advice
17 Nov 2021 Construction costs still streaking ahead
16 Nov 2021 Market Close: Electricity stocks fall as interest rates rise
16 Nov 2021 Wealthpoint appoints Independent Director
16 Nov 2021 Auckland housing crisis nearly over
16 Nov 2021 What went well at COP26 (and what wasn't so good)
15 Nov 2021 NZ shares bounce back from bad week
15 Nov 2021 Financial Advice NZ appoints two new directors
15 Nov 2021 Unvaccinated may face higher premiums
15 Nov 2021 Financial Advice NZ conference - online from tomorrow
15 Nov 2021 Hot in Hawke's Bay
15 Nov 2021 Regulation roadblock for retail investment
14 Nov 2021 Calls for responsible lending qualifications for advisers
12 Nov 2021 Pushpay pushes market down
12 Nov 2021 AIA NZ chief executive takes leave
12 Nov 2021 NZ Super invests US$100m in climate tech fund
12 Nov 2021 Stubbs vows to reduce fees after Simplicity hits the $4 billion mark
11 Nov 2021 Mainfreight holds the line as bond yields jump
11 Nov 2021 Smartshares bulks up with ASB purchase
11 Nov 2021 What landlords can tell tenants
11 Nov 2021 FSC membership grows by 23% - new board appointed
11 Nov 2021 Advisers key to closing the protection gap
11 Nov 2021 BNZ and brokers; What's happening? Three year rates at 5%
11 Nov 2021 Former Fidelity exec joins Cigna
11 Nov 2021 Synergy creates portfolio supermarket
10 Nov 2021 NZ shares fall as Pushpay touches 12-month low
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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