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November 2008
06 Nov 2008 PIS Strategic Review 2008
06 Nov 2008 Playing the waiting game
06 Nov 2008 Guardian freezes fund while complying with govt scheme
06 Nov 2008 Funds Management & Superannuation Trans-Tasman Roadshow
06 Nov 2008 ISI wants guarantee scheme extended
05 Nov 2008 Guardian to restructure cash fund for guarantee
05 Nov 2008 PIS recruits two more to its NZ team
05 Nov 2008 Magellan Roadshow
05 Nov 2008 Waikato: A bellweather property market?
05 Nov 2008 Floating rates find legs
05 Nov 2008 Funds Management & Superannuation Trans-Tasman Roadshow
05 Nov 2008 Tax relief key to KiwiSaver
05 Nov 2008 News Round Up
05 Nov 2008 ASB first big bank to get guarantee
04 Nov 2008 VTL directors resign; Company in receivership
04 Nov 2008 Fidelity Life reports record profit
04 Nov 2008 IRD starts crackdown on property investors' LAQCs
03 Nov 2008 Marac MD to step down
03 Nov 2008 News Round Up
October 2008
31 Oct 2008 [Weekly Wrap] Fund and games
31 Oct 2008 New wealth manager for Macquarie
31 Oct 2008 More rental properties needed
31 Oct 2008 Private landlords to play greater role
31 Oct 2008 Asteron's Stone looking for new high
31 Oct 2008 Managed fund mayhem muted
31 Oct 2008 Asteron's Stone looking for new high
31 Oct 2008 Property investment gets reality check
30 Oct 2008 Withdrawal of lending from GE affects non-banks
30 Oct 2008 Best quarter for funds flow in 18 years
29 Oct 2008 GWM strengthens investment committee
29 Oct 2008 Insurers must have Waiver of Premium benefit in offering
29 Oct 2008 Rates dropping while funding dries up
29 Oct 2008 Rates dropping while funding dries up
28 Oct 2008 Kiwibank to hire financial advisers
28 Oct 2008 AXA suspends $225m of funds as redemptions climb
28 Oct 2008 News Round Up
27 Oct 2008 BNZ's parent in hot seat to buy Wizard
27 Oct 2008 Dunedin pair named top landlords
24 Oct 2008 [Weekly Wrap] Controversy and changes
24 Oct 2008 ING named as top fund manager
24 Oct 2008 Your investments in the hands of politicians
24 Oct 2008 OCR drop good news for investors
24 Oct 2008 Fear factor to fade
24 Oct 2008 PIMCO sees value in bonds of firms with government support
23 Oct 2008 Sovereign shakes up structures on commission
23 Oct 2008 AIG transfer offers stir controversy
23 Oct 2008 OCR announcement
23 Oct 2008 Bollard delivers unprecedented rate cut
23 Oct 2008 OCR reduced to 6.5%
23 Oct 2008 Health coverage up - slightly
23 Oct 2008 OCR reduced to 6.5%
22 Oct 2008 Non-banks squeezed as Govt reshapes guarantee
22 Oct 2008 Leave the Super fund alone
22 Oct 2008 SHARE Conference 2008
22 Oct 2008 Fortress notes now worthless
21 Oct 2008 Don't ignore equity markets
20 Oct 2008 News Round Up
20 Oct 2008 Goldridge signs up West as services manager
17 Oct 2008 OCR preview: Massive rate cut expected next week
17 Oct 2008 Weekly Wrap: Playing with risk
17 Oct 2008 Investors starting to pick up pace
17 Oct 2008 Strategic sale terminated on adverse credit markets
17 Oct 2008 [Toolbox] Warning: Potential hazards ahead
17 Oct 2008 The cuts are coming
17 Oct 2008 Sale of Suncorp assets stopped
16 Oct 2008 Dominion shares suspended indefinitely
16 Oct 2008 AIG fights poachers
16 Oct 2008 Hildyard returns
16 Oct 2008 KiwiSaver Performance Survey results
16 Oct 2008 KiwiSaver Performance Survey results table
16 Oct 2008 Guarantee scheme: Who's in
16 Oct 2008 Deposit scheme scares off govt bond buyers
16 Oct 2008 Geneva set to breach bank covenants
16 Oct 2008 Home loan rates expected to fall again
15 Oct 2008 Strategic purchase falters, parties resume talks
15 Oct 2008 Politics, Economics & Investment Post-2008
15 Oct 2008 Women in Super After 5pm Function
15 Oct 2008 Income funds shine in KiwiSaver survey
14 Oct 2008 Retirement Policy and Research Centre breakfast briefing
14 Oct 2008 Playing with risk - A smart move?
14 Oct 2008 Fund managers left out of deposit scheme
13 Oct 2008 Tower adds another equity analyst
13 Oct 2008 Adding Kiwi ingenuity to the lending market
13 Oct 2008 Average house price falls in September: QV
13 Oct 2008 Main urban areas commentary: QV
13 Oct 2008 News Round Up
10 Oct 2008 Weekly Wrap: Keeping up with the changes
10 Oct 2008 NZ house sales rise from 26-year low; prices steady: REINZ
10 Oct 2008 Residential Highlights – September 2008
10 Oct 2008 Ex MM owner wins payout
10 Oct 2008 Oz v Kiwi Property investing
10 Oct 2008 Taking a long view on KiwiSaver changes
10 Oct 2008 INGIM gains interest rate strategist
09 Oct 2008 Recruiting young advisers
09 Oct 2008 Opinion: You are not on the right plan?
09 Oct 2008 New head strategist at AMP
09 Oct 2008 Newpark advisers to share in PIS takeover
09 Oct 2008 Nelson: Under the sun
08 Oct 2008 Dominion appoints administrator, cancells AGM
08 Oct 2008 Demand for greener living growing
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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