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November 2024
27 Nov 2024 Policy value and retrospective advice
27 Nov 2024 ASB made up for lost time with mortgage lending surge in Sept quarter
26 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket falls 0.6% after Monday's surge
26 Nov 2024 Cost and lack of understanding barriers to taking out insurance cover
26 Nov 2024 Extreme measures for extreme circumstances – why the RBNZ should cut the OCR by 0.75% when it meets this week
26 Nov 2024 It's getting to the point where a complaint does need to be made
26 Nov 2024 FMA complaint touted as banks do little to pull back processing times
26 Nov 2024 Snowball offers managed funds
25 Nov 2024 More than $1b traded on NZ sharemarket as it rises again
25 Nov 2024 All eyes on interest rates for the next two years
25 Nov 2024 All eyes on interest rates for next two years
25 Nov 2024 Insurance company continues winning streak
25 Nov 2024 DRS member or not - client care remains advisers’ responsibility
22 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket rises on back of positive news
22 Nov 2024 Backlash against banks’ home loan processing times; New line of credit business offering
22 Nov 2024 Power Plays: Navigating New Zealand’s Electricity Market
22 Nov 2024 Backlash against banks’ home loan processing times
22 Nov 2024 Ethical KiwiSaver provider maximising advisor channel for next growth stage
21 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket rises ahead of interest rate decision
21 Nov 2024 Harbour Investment Outlook: Waiting game
21 Nov 2024 TAP adds compliance support
21 Nov 2024 Daughter takes over founder's role
21 Nov 2024 Climate change is a threatening problem for lenders
21 Nov 2024 Climate change – a threatening problem for lenders
20 Nov 2024 Directionless NZ sharemarket slips 0.6%
20 Nov 2024 From G to V to three
20 Nov 2024 Fidelity's new chair on board with growth ambitions
20 Nov 2024 Westpac sees plenty of shopping around for mortgages
20 Nov 2024 [OCR Forecast] Economists hedge their OCR bets
20 Nov 2024 New line of credit business offering
20 Nov 2024 Economists hedge their OCR bets
20 Nov 2024 Fresh solution to liability gaps needed
19 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket up 0.4% for second day on interest rate cut hopes
19 Nov 2024 Fisher Funds adds RI GM
19 Nov 2024 Mortgages harder to get over the line ; New Zealand Equity Monthly October 2024
19 Nov 2024 Ex Bluestone BDM joins Loan Market
19 Nov 2024 New Zealand Equity Monthly October 2024
19 Nov 2024 Mortgages harder to get over the line
19 Nov 2024 Value of index tracking seen in the numbers, says Kernel
18 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket starts week up 0.6%
18 Nov 2024 Can Games Teach Financial Literacy?
18 Nov 2024 Can Games Teach Financial Literacy?
18 Nov 2024 Can Games Teach Financial Literacy?
18 Nov 2024 Private credit reshapes NZ lending
18 Nov 2024 Private credit rewriting mortgage and business borrowing
18 Nov 2024 No plain sailing around Castle Point
15 Nov 2024 NZ shares finish flat as Sanford rises
15 Nov 2024 Small mortgage blip for Basecorp in tough year; A big target for LifeDirect
15 Nov 2024 Small mortgage blip for Basecorp in tough year
15 Nov 2024 Failure to plan for data-hungry AI will have consequences
15 Nov 2024 Apex Advice buys life business
14 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket up 0.1%, Rocket Lab soars
14 Nov 2024 NZ Super Fund terminates Devon mandate
14 Nov 2024 A big target for newly merged company
14 Nov 2024 Govt takes risk-based approach to deposit guarantee scheme
14 Nov 2024 ASB insists it isn't making excess profits
13 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket continues see-sawing, down 0.5%
13 Nov 2024 Chubb's latest champion
13 Nov 2024 Dosh is making its next move
13 Nov 2024 Dosh to launch a competitive digital home loan
13 Nov 2024 Former Apex boss joins Trust Management
13 Nov 2024 Apartment owners thumped by consistently fast rising insurance
13 Nov 2024 New book: Unlocking group insurance
13 Nov 2024 Insurer gets warning from RBNZ
12 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket up 0.5%, Rocket Lab soars in US
12 Nov 2024 nib experiencing extraordinary claims growth
12 Nov 2024 Big Shout Out
12 Nov 2024 KiwiSaver assets grow to $117.6 bill
12 Nov 2024 Expectations for inflation and big OCR cut in full flight; TMM5 is available now
12 Nov 2024 Expectations for inflation and big OCR cut in full flight
11 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket starts week down 0.6%
11 Nov 2024 Fidelity awards top advisers
11 Nov 2024 What’s the solution to life insurance advice risk anxiety?
11 Nov 2024 First home buyers the most likely to use a mortgage adviser; Job insecurity remains big concern for mortgage holders
11 Nov 2024 First home buyers the most likely to use a mortgage adviser
08 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket ends week up nearly 1.7%
08 Nov 2024 Advisers not happy with ASB
08 Nov 2024 Job insecurity remains big concern for mortgage holders
08 Nov 2024 KiwiSaver members mature enough to ignore market volatility
07 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket down 0.5% as investors contemplate Trump 2.0
07 Nov 2024 New customers locked out of ASB’s pre-approvals
07 Nov 2024 Fidelity lays out bold new growth plans
06 Nov 2024 NZX goes down as early signals point to Donald Trump victory
06 Nov 2024 Acquisition opens up market for NZ Mortgages
05 Nov 2024 Calm before the storm: NZ sharemarket up 0.5%
05 Nov 2024 Banks asses what stressors could destroy capital buffers; Kiwibank lifted its home loans business; Advisers wrote 63% of Westpac's new mortgages
05 Nov 2024 Percentage of mortgages originated by advisers lifts sharply
05 Nov 2024 Banks asses what stressors could destroy capital buffers
05 Nov 2024 Advisers wrote 63% of Westpac's new mortgages in latest year
04 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket up slightly ahead of ‘wait-and-see' US election
04 Nov 2024 Mortgage advisers account for 53.8% of Westpac's mortgages
04 Nov 2024 LifeDirect Expands; Competition about to heat up
04 Nov 2024 LifeDirect Expands to Offer Nationwide Mortgage Service
04 Nov 2024 Competition between investors and first home buyers about to heat up
03 Nov 2024 Pie adds new filling to its KiwiSaver reciepe
03 Nov 2024 Makao adds third consultant
01 Nov 2024 NZ sharemarket down over 1.5% for the week
01 Nov 2024 Rise in households struggling with mortgage repayments; RBNZ: house prices still near top of sustainable levels
01 Nov 2024 Rise in households struggling with mortgage repayments
October 2024
31 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket down ahead of big US election
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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