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October 2024
31 Oct 2024 From MAC to board
31 Oct 2024 RBNZ: house prices still near top of sustainable levels
31 Oct 2024 From MAC to board
31 Oct 2024 More newbies at FMT
30 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket down 0.6% on Spark's disappointing update
30 Oct 2024 Finding skilled talent still a challenge for FMA
30 Oct 2024 Prospa expands its offerings in New Zealand
30 Oct 2024 How much knowledge of medical conditions are life advisers expected to have?
30 Oct 2024 Coach dances into sales role at AIA
30 Oct 2024 Prospa expands its offerings
29 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket up nearly 1% after long weekend as Serko surges
29 Oct 2024 Pathfinder team mourns death of portfolio manager
29 Oct 2024 Booster Foundation takes off
29 Oct 2024 Insync: Market concentration a myth
28 Oct 2024 Active or Passive? How about the best of both worlds
26 Oct 2024 Stakeholders’ satisfaction with FMA takes a tumble
25 Oct 2024 Robust trading update from Tauranga Port perks up market
25 Oct 2024 IRD likely to catch up with those not declaring FIF income
24 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket up 0.2%, Infratil hits all-time high
24 Oct 2024 Regulator seeks improvements from DIMS licence holders
24 Oct 2024 ANZ says Kiwibank is grabbing a quarter of home and business loans
24 Oct 2024 [GRTV] Smart is launching four new ETFs
23 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket posts small decline on busy day
23 Oct 2024 ANZ says Kiwibank is grabbing 25% of home and business loans
23 Oct 2024 New head of wealth partnerships at PG Investments
22 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket down 0.8%, ASX almost double that
22 Oct 2024 NZFSG’s ‘MyInduction’ Programme: Setting advisers up for success
22 Oct 2024 Economist Shamubeel Eaqub joins Simplicity
22 Oct 2024 Asteron Life internship a career launching opportunity for AUT student
22 Oct 2024 ASB looks for a CIO
22 Oct 2024 Guardians of NZ Superannuation appoints co-CIOs
21 Oct 2024 NZX50 nears the 13,000 points mark for the first time since 2021
21 Oct 2024 Avanti Finance has a new chief risk officer
20 Oct 2024 Select Wealth joins $1 bill club
20 Oct 2024 nib launches tool to support women through menopause
20 Oct 2024 Booster Savvy ups for tech gongs
19 Oct 2024 KiwiSaver shortcomings identified in global report
18 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket closes week with near 0.5% gain
18 Oct 2024 AI forecast to take care of majority of advisor loan deals
17 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket up 1% after yesterday's 1.5% fall
16 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket dives 1.5% despite positive inflation data
16 Oct 2024 KAN chair calls for financial advisers to be exempt from CoFi
15 Oct 2024 Basecorp gets more funding for short-term mortgages
15 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket up nearly 0.6%, Vista surges
15 Oct 2024 Retail investors seek relative safety in managed funds and ETFs
15 Oct 2024 FMT adds another investment director
14 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket down 0.6%
14 Oct 2024 Why the Reserve Bank should cut interest rates by a further 1% before Christmas
14 Oct 2024 Link Group appoints two new national growth managers
11 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket ends week up nearly 1.8%
11 Oct 2024 Tattoo removal and IVF companies are part of Generate's new PE deal
10 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket down, but up 8.2% for the year
10 Oct 2024 Harris or Trump? It doesn’t matter for investors
10 Oct 2024 Harris or Trump? It doesn’t matter for investors
10 Oct 2024 CPI, it's simple, right?
10 Oct 2024 NZX’s Smart links up with iShares to launch new funds
09 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket favours OCR cut, up 1.75%
09 Oct 2024 Banks slash floating rates after 50bp OCR cut
09 Oct 2024 BREAKING: OCR 4.75%
09 Oct 2024 BREAKING: OCR 4.75% – Monetary restraint reduced as inflation converges to target
09 Oct 2024 New Zealand Equity Monthly September 2024
09 Oct 2024 Big day today
09 Oct 2024 Advisers frustrated with NZCFS L5 marking
08 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket slides despite some positive data
08 Oct 2024 Sharesies KiwiSaver to offer self-select for US shares
08 Oct 2024 Is NZ Funds Management for sale?
07 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket down nearly 0.2%
07 Oct 2024 [OCR Forecast] Economists, markets expect a 50bp OCR cut on Wednesday
07 Oct 2024 KiwiSaver winners
07 Oct 2024 Economists, markets expect a 50bp OCR cut on Wednesday
07 Oct 2024 KiwiSaver winners
05 Oct 2024 Your weekend read: Hybrid working not all bad
05 Oct 2024 New executive appointment at FMA
04 Oct 2024 NZ market rises on potential for more Chinese stimulus
04 Oct 2024 Changes at Partners Life
04 Oct 2024 Ratings agency S&P positive about Avanti's market position
04 Oct 2024 Ratings agency positive about Avanti's market position
03 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket rises as investors return to blue-chip stocks
03 Oct 2024 Science-backed approach to ‘democratising investment’
03 Oct 2024 How much do NZers know about mortgage advisers? The answer might surprise you
03 Oct 2024 NZers generally don't know about mortgage advice: New reseach
03 Oct 2024 Appalling agency application processes
02 Oct 2024 Middle East conflict weighs on NZ sharemarket
02 Oct 2024 Don’t overlook impact of TPD, adviser urges
01 Oct 2024 Former Resimac BDM finds a new home
01 Oct 2024 NZ sharemarket rallies on increasing business confidence
01 Oct 2024 [GRTV] New name, new funds for Smartshares
01 Oct 2024 Investment in unethical businesses falling
01 Oct 2024 Insurance transforms end-of-life care
01 Oct 2024 Employees are wanting health and life insurance
September 2024
30 Sep 2024 NZ sharemarket ends day down but Hallenstein Glasson reports solid annual result
30 Sep 2024 Strategic versus Tactical Allocation
30 Sep 2024 Advisers’ role clarified by select committee
30 Sep 2024 Southern Cross Health Society Group annual results reflect steep increase in demand for private healthcare
30 Sep 2024 Southern Cross Health Society Group annual results reflect steep increase in demand for private healthcare
28 Sep 2024 Chubb Life makes changes to trauma benefit
27 Sep 2024 Market close: Market eases after a strong afternoon of trading
27 Sep 2024 Asteron Life announces 2024 Million Dollar Round Table programme recipients
27 Sep 2024 [GRTV] Stronger and more unified voice needed to force KiwiSaver changes
26 Sep 2024 NZ sharemarket rallies strongly after four days of falls
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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