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February 2004
03 Feb 2004 Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
03 Feb 2004 TOWER GAM Global Gateway Fund - Int'l Equities with a difference
03 Feb 2004 More Macquarie sharebrokers
03 Feb 2004 Fisher on her new fund
03 Feb 2004 Fidelity Life Fresh Start ’04 Road Show
02 Feb 2004 Nats looking at flexible retirement age
02 Feb 2004 House bubble not big enough to burst - yet
02 Feb 2004 Investors feeling very confident
02 Feb 2004 Fidelity Life Fresh Start ’04 Road Show
January 2004
30 Jan 2004 Positive net funds flow persists through December quarter
30 Jan 2004 Perry switches platforms
29 Jan 2004 Where to invest in 2004?
29 Jan 2004 Fisher Funds to launch listed investment coy
29 Jan 2004 news round up
29 Jan 2004 OCR rise likely to raise mortgage rates
29 Jan 2004 OCR rise likely to raise mortgage rates
29 Jan 2004 OCR increased to 5.25%
29 Jan 2004 Managed funds back in favour
29 Jan 2004 Fidelity Life Fresh Start ’04 Road Show
29 Jan 2004 Fidelity Life Fresh Start ’04 Road Show
28 Jan 2004 UK learns retirement policy lessons from NZ
28 Jan 2004 Fisher and Dresdner win super fund mandates
27 Jan 2004 Further Asteron appointments
27 Jan 2004 The RAMS are loose
27 Jan 2004 Kiwibank raises floating rate 20 basis points
27 Jan 2004 ISI calls for government action in wake of PRG report
27 Jan 2004 Investment expectations now driving property market
27 Jan 2004 Fidelity Life Fresh Start ’04 Road Show
26 Jan 2004 News Round Up
26 Jan 2004 Totting up the costs of rental property - Mary Holm
26 Jan 2004 220-unit development rejected
26 Jan 2004 Building sector short of staff
26 Jan 2004 Rents fail to keep pace with house prices
26 Jan 2004 Is the property boom a house of cards?
26 Jan 2004 Housing shows statistical glitch
26 Jan 2004 Three bedrooms, native wood, $20,000 . . . buy of the decade?
26 Jan 2004 Property problems: Wording of lease the key to brothel tenancy
26 Jan 2004 Plot price doubles as sections withdrawn
26 Jan 2004 Housing cycle on a plateau
26 Jan 2004 NZers Teeter On Tip Of Debt Mtn.
26 Jan 2004 Couple allegedly invested just a quarter of money
26 Jan 2004 Full buildings, new tower buoy sector
26 Jan 2004 Insurers Scrutinise Flood-Prone Areas
26 Jan 2004 Property Boom Shows Signs Of Easing
26 Jan 2004 Landlords packing in beds for students
26 Jan 2004 Million-dollar sale tipped
26 Jan 2004 Rentals hard to come by
26 Jan 2004 Asteron to enter mortgage market
26 Jan 2004 Tasman may face rates hike
26 Jan 2004 Mortgage Link become broker controlled
23 Jan 2004 Sovereign boys back in town
22 Jan 2004 Asteron's new management team
22 Jan 2004 TOWER's QuickStart 2004
22 Jan 2004 Housing cycle on a plateau
22 Jan 2004 Major makeover proposed for Life Insurance Act
21 Jan 2004 TOWER's QuickStart 2004
21 Jan 2004 Another new asset management firm
20 Jan 2004 Market timing: Implications for investors Down Under
20 Jan 2004 Gribben to head up AMP alternative asset business
20 Jan 2004 Bridgecorp rated
20 Jan 2004 TOWER's QuickStart 2004
19 Jan 2004 $3m for flat with sea view
19 Jan 2004 Holidaymakers snap up resort properties
19 Jan 2004 Interest rate rises likely to be delayed
19 Jan 2004 Borrowing against the home increases
19 Jan 2004 Interest rate cuts possible
19 Jan 2004 Taxing property deals rejected
19 Jan 2004 Lumley to change its name
19 Jan 2004 Asteron to enter mortgage market
19 Jan 2004 News Round Up
19 Jan 2004 TOWER's QuickStart 2004
16 Jan 2004 Interest rate rises likely to be delayed
16 Jan 2004 Interest rate rises likely to be delayed
15 Jan 2004 Fund managers confident no scandal
14 Jan 2004 Raglan property values boom
14 Jan 2004 Third of coast privately owned
14 Jan 2004 Former fund managers jump fence
14 Jan 2004 New boss for Mortgage Link
13 Jan 2004 US Fund Scandals: What's it all about?
13 Jan 2004 Small caps lead broad market rally in 2003
12 Jan 2004 FAI's new general manager
12 Jan 2004 Gloomy picture painted of life industry
12 Jan 2004 News Round Up
09 Jan 2004 Building consent numbers expected to hold up this year
09 Jan 2004 Overcrowding fears for Remuera
09 Jan 2004 Subsidy welcomed for Mangawhai sewerage scheme
09 Jan 2004 Taranaki tops the places-to-go list
09 Jan 2004 Economists think building boom will last
08 Jan 2004 What the PRG means for workplace super
08 Jan 2004 North Shore council draws the line
08 Jan 2004 Himatangi house prices head skyward
08 Jan 2004 Ingham twins looking to return
07 Jan 2004 Lenders become brokers
07 Jan 2004 Porirua accentuates the positive
07 Jan 2004 Newmarket's out of city control, say businesses
07 Jan 2004 Outsiders see Porirua as dangerous - secret report
07 Jan 2004 Coastal sections grabbed quickly
07 Jan 2004 Homes have to meet new rules
07 Jan 2004 HY-FY investors get a jolt
07 Jan 2004 Lenders become brokers
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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.
1 week 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