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November 2021
10 Nov 2021 Most bank customers earning nothing
10 Nov 2021 BNZ gets more business from advisers, but that may change
09 Nov 2021 NZ shares up as earnings results loom
09 Nov 2021 House prices should fall next year - Westpac
09 Nov 2021 BNZ's profit up 74%
09 Nov 2021 Cigna campaign benefits customers and advisers
09 Nov 2021 AIA offers Best Doctors to group scheme customers
09 Nov 2021 No jab, no job - legal rights in the workplace
09 Nov 2021 Codes must have consequences
08 Nov 2021 NZX 50 falls as F&P Healthcare slips
08 Nov 2021 nib set to expand into life insurance
08 Nov 2021 nib buys Kiwi Insurance
08 Nov 2021 The tide is turning on house prices
08 Nov 2021 [RESEND] What keeps you awake at night? No jab, no job - legal rights in the workplace
08 Nov 2021 Bridging the protection gap - insurers need to work harder
07 Nov 2021 [GRTV] Rob Everett on value for money, the great KiwiSaver land grab and fees
06 Nov 2021 Have yur say; SBS appoints new CEO
06 Nov 2021 SBS appoints new CEO
05 Nov 2021 Global central banks keep rates low
05 Nov 2021 [The Wrap] Changes in the wind
05 Nov 2021 JMI Wealth adds yet another adviser
05 Nov 2021 Have your say; Everett fires back at bank boss
05 Nov 2021 Everett fires back at Drylie
05 Nov 2021 Self-reporting viewed as best practice by the FMA
05 Nov 2021 AMP Life exits life insurance for good
05 Nov 2021 SBS Bank buys advisory firm
05 Nov 2021 How global supply chain disruptions have caught out central banks in 2021.
04 Nov 2021 Property stocks pull NZX 50 lower
04 Nov 2021 Investors in a race to zero
04 Nov 2021 TMM roadshow coming: Mark Your Diary today
04 Nov 2021 Two new executive appointments at Tower
04 Nov 2021 Westpac forecasting an even higher OCR
03 Nov 2021 Markets muted after ‘ridiculous’ employment data
03 Nov 2021 Resolution Life resurrects AMP's insurance business
03 Nov 2021 FSC launches financial wellbeing hub
03 Nov 2021 AMP buries the remains of its life insurance business
03 Nov 2021 Britannia needs you - a solid opportunity for advisers
03 Nov 2021 RBNZ expands on DTI plans; Grab your seat at the TMM Roadshow; Nearly half ANZ's business comes from advisers
03 Nov 2021 Reserve Bank gives more details on DTIs
03 Nov 2021 Established Mike Pero franchise for sale in Christchurch
03 Nov 2021 Tower secures National Pacific Insurance
03 Nov 2021 More advisers needed
03 Nov 2021 Landlord evictions clarified under Covid restrictions
02 Nov 2021 New Zealanders have one very large egg in their wealth basket
02 Nov 2021 NZ shares lower as RBA scraps rate targets
02 Nov 2021 nib offers two months free cover online
02 Nov 2021 Covid puts pressure on premiums
02 Nov 2021 AML firm raises $30 mill
02 Nov 2021 Mint Asset Management eyes up the adviser market
02 Nov 2021 Advisers write nearly half of all ANZ's loans
01 Nov 2021 NZX 50 falls as Westpac's margin tanks
01 Nov 2021 10 regions hit record high sales prices
01 Nov 2021 Aurora shines in Deloitte Fast 50
01 Nov 2021 Southern Cross strengthens executive team
01 Nov 2021 Westpac profits; Have your say
01 Nov 2021 Westpac reports higher earnings
01 Nov 2021 New accounting standards = more costs for insurers
October 2021
30 Oct 2021 Milford adds to its intermediary team
30 Oct 2021 ANZ adds global infrastructure fund to OneAnswer
30 Oct 2021 [The Wrap] Reflections of Rob Everett's reign
30 Oct 2021 [GRTV] The difficulties of regulating financial advisers
29 Oct 2021 [GRTV] The difficulties of regulating financial advisers
29 Oct 2021 NZX 50 finishes month on a high
29 Oct 2021 Non-disclosure case highlights need for better records
29 Oct 2021 Funds' net-zero committment must be credible
29 Oct 2021 What do you think of BNZ's DTIs? News on TSB and ANZ
29 Oct 2021 BNZ first bank to introduce DTIs
29 Oct 2021 TSB looks to have avoided Kiwibank's rate promise problems
29 Oct 2021 Competency standards - to move forward, start at the finish
28 Oct 2021 Inflation pushes bond yields to new high
28 Oct 2021 ANZ profit up 44%
28 Oct 2021 AIA NZ offers more support to advisers
28 Oct 2021 Small business lending market heats up
28 Oct 2021 Verhaart ends five year stint at Kiwi Wealth
28 Oct 2021 House price growth on the downward slide
28 Oct 2021 Small business lending market heats up
28 Oct 2021 Death by a thousand regulations
28 Oct 2021 If done correctly replacement not a problem
28 Oct 2021 Mixed forecast for mortgage advisers
27 Oct 2021 NZX falls on A2's weak margins
27 Oct 2021 Salt adds to its research team
27 Oct 2021 Partners Life rebrands
27 Oct 2021 FSC backs target dates for FAP licencing
27 Oct 2021 The dangers of home loan holidays
27 Oct 2021 KiwiSaver in colour: why it shouldn’t be the new black
26 Oct 2021 Synlait shares slump on record milk price
26 Oct 2021 Advisers face tough environment due to Covid
26 Oct 2021 Embracing change - how regulation will improve financial advice
26 Oct 2021 What do retired bank CEOs do? Find out here
25 Oct 2021 Tribunal: Anti-social behaviour – tenancy terminated
22 Oct 2021 NZX50 limps into Labour weekend
22 Oct 2021 Climate change disclosure rules pass final hurdle
22 Oct 2021 Mindful Money: Financing for a low emissions future
22 Oct 2021 Investor juggernaut slowly grinding down
22 Oct 2021 Wealthpoint adds experienced adviser in venture with Rothbury
22 Oct 2021 Milford expands investment team
22 Oct 2021 AMP Wealth management continues to bleed funds
22 Oct 2021 The long, hard road to good conduct
21 Oct 2021 Second class suit stops A2 in its tracks
21 Oct 2021 Business as usual after Cigna sell-off
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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