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October 2011
31 Oct 2011 Home consents see ‘large decrease’ in September but trend still rising
30 Oct 2011 ISI welcomes Labour's savings policy
28 Oct 2011 Two new brokers for Mortgage Express
28 Oct 2011 New company for Government receivership assets
28 Oct 2011 Hanover investors unlikely to get a say on share dilution
28 Oct 2011 Two year old report underpins Labour's policy
28 Oct 2011 Forget about personality; Labour's policy has balls
28 Oct 2011 Kiwibank slashes all fixed rates; Westpac follows
28 Oct 2011 Property Tutors no income property investment adverts criticised by FMA
27 Oct 2011 Details of Kiwibank's new home loan rates
27 Oct 2011 SCF's good asset realise a third of total book
27 Oct 2011 Labour promises compulsory KiwiSaver
27 Oct 2011 SFO charges four over Dominion Finance lending
27 Oct 2011 Bollard spooks markets
27 Oct 2011 Interest rates on hold for now
27 Oct 2011 NZF promises new products for brokers
27 Oct 2011 Advisers urged to avoid ‘mediocre’ managers
27 Oct 2011 OCR held, but for how long?
27 Oct 2011 Bollard spooks market
26 Oct 2011 New name and bank status for PSIS
26 Oct 2011 Inflation data adds to rate hold view
26 Oct 2011 Christchurch City exodus a shot in arm for suburban landlords
25 Oct 2011 PAA/NZMBA joint board creation in final stages
24 Oct 2011 Deteriorating growth outlook likely to keep rates on hold
24 Oct 2011 News Round Up: October 24
24 Oct 2011 Interest rate cuts not happening: Survey
21 Oct 2011 The $5 million dollar man
21 Oct 2011 TSB offers 'lending special'
20 Oct 2011 National Finance 2000 boss Ludlow jailed for six years
20 Oct 2011 Allied Kiwi buys insurance broker Metro Broker Link
20 Oct 2011 Advisers open to ISI super-group idea
20 Oct 2011 ANZ National prepares rate hike
20 Oct 2011 ANZ National prepares rate hike
19 Oct 2011 SFO launches investigation into advisory firm
19 Oct 2011 Just three adviser complaints at FSCL – so far
19 Oct 2011 Global pressures vs inflation fears
19 Oct 2011 Mid-price rental property in short supply
18 Oct 2011 Planet appoint new GM
18 Oct 2011 English announces KiwiSaver soft-compulsion plans
18 Oct 2011 Macquarie to repay 45.02 cents in the dollar on Fortress notes
18 Oct 2011 Redundancy for PIS founder Bennetts
18 Oct 2011 Advisers offered flexible currency product
18 Oct 2011 ASB picks March for OCR rise
18 Oct 2011 Birkenhead rents continue to rise
17 Oct 2011 Harbour commentary: Waves of pessimism and optimism
17 Oct 2011 Protecting one of your clients most important assets – their income
17 Oct 2011 What is your IP and how do you protect it?
17 Oct 2011 MED to look into overseas convictions loophole
17 Oct 2011 More falling rates
17 Oct 2011 Auctions increase in popularity - but have potential to hammer investors’
14 Oct 2011 NZF home loan deal nearly settled
14 Oct 2011 Fitch puts Rabobank on negative credit watch
14 Oct 2011 Cowboys ad complaint shot down by ASA
13 Oct 2011 It's specials time
13 Oct 2011 Brook Asset Management appoints new MD
13 Oct 2011 Life cover simplified – you’re either alive or dead
13 Oct 2011 Advisers fear IFA’s help could haunt them
12 Oct 2011 Investor activity strong in Hutt Valley, muted nationwide
12 Oct 2011 Property values up with Auckland leading the charge
12 Oct 2011 Two new BDMs for Tower
12 Oct 2011 Adviser commission ban recommended by Commerce Committee
12 Oct 2011 QV September 2011 - the regions
12 Oct 2011 Sales volumes up, prices down in September
12 Oct 2011 Sales up almost 20%, led by surge in auctions
11 Oct 2011 Bubbles could attract KiwiSaver fly-by-nighters
11 Oct 2011 Power takes Private Bank role at Westpac
11 Oct 2011 Regulatory loopholes exposed
11 Oct 2011 ISI looks to become super-lobbyist
11 Oct 2011 Triple jump for EQC levy
10 Oct 2011 Regulatory loophole lets rogue financial operators to stay in business
10 Oct 2011 Managers looking to shares for yield
10 Oct 2011 HSBC resumes its leading pricing
10 Oct 2011 Heartland to repay Wrightson bond, contemplates another issue
10 Oct 2011 News Round Up: October 10
07 Oct 2011 Landmark adviser lawsuit case closed
06 Oct 2011 Former Hanover investors' interest in Allied Farmers to be slashed
06 Oct 2011 AMP launches insurance tele-interviewing
06 Oct 2011 Bank competition heating up
06 Oct 2011 New credit reporting rules to affect mortgage borrowers
06 Oct 2011 New privacy rules for borrowers
05 Oct 2011 Catching the next property wave
05 Oct 2011 Coming Soon
05 Oct 2011 NZ Home Loans increases rates
05 Oct 2011 Charges mount against Nelson adviser
05 Oct 2011 Auckland property prices hit six-month high
04 Oct 2011 Treasury should have limited finance company deposits: AG
04 Oct 2011 Savers missing out on bonus interest
04 Oct 2011 Where oh where are the KiwiSaver accounts?
04 Oct 2011 Tyndall Monthly Commentary
04 Oct 2011 Canterbury advisers achieve AFA status
04 Oct 2011 Mortgage market winners and losers
03 Oct 2011 Allied Farmers delays annual report in hopes of positive event
03 Oct 2011 September sees surge in listings and asking price
03 Oct 2011 Blue Star seeks expressions of interest in A$11.7m shareholders' notes
03 Oct 2011 ANZ, ASB banks major mortgage market losers through GFC
03 Oct 2011 KiwiSaver providers miss the deadline
03 Oct 2011 News Round Up: October 3
03 Oct 2011 Auckland’s real estate valued at $354 billion
03 Oct 2011 House prices just 5% below peak and set to rise
01 Oct 2011 AIA: At the sharp end
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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