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January 2003
30 Jan 2003 Old hand joins NZ First
30 Jan 2003 When is an adviser not an adviser?
29 Jan 2003 Royal & SunAlliance keeps quiet on sale rumours
29 Jan 2003 Spicers' Quarterly Strategy Paper
29 Jan 2003 Metropolis Bondholders likely to lose half their capital
29 Jan 2003 Thinking big can be good - but diversify : Mary Holm
29 Jan 2003 Investors switch focus - Where's the return? And where's the risk?
29 Jan 2003 Normality returns
28 Jan 2003 Bondholders likely to lose half their capital
27 Jan 2003 New structure for RSA announced
27 Jan 2003 Homes continue to become harder to buy
27 Jan 2003 News Round Up
27 Jan 2003 Fidelity's new marketing manager
24 Jan 2003 No one can tell when bubble will burst : Mary Holm
24 Jan 2003 Failures hit holiday resorts
24 Jan 2003 Gerlings shuts up shop Down Under
24 Jan 2003 Mercer quantifies losses
23 Jan 2003 Reform plans hit snag
23 Jan 2003 Mortgage rates unlikely to rise this year
23 Jan 2003 Mortgage rates unlikely to rise this year
23 Jan 2003 <B>NEWSFLASH:</B> Cash rate unchanged
22 Jan 2003 House buying interest strong
22 Jan 2003 Housing market cools in December
22 Jan 2003 OCR announcement not about rates
21 Jan 2003 Housing market cools
21 Jan 2003 Guardians on track for key appointments
21 Jan 2003 Last chance to get super right
21 Jan 2003 Last chance to get super right
20 Jan 2003 Significant changes at BT
20 Jan 2003 Putting 2002 in context
20 Jan 2003 Weekly review
19 Jan 2003 Half chance of rate cut in June
16 Jan 2003 Auckland - an overview of its suburbs
16 Jan 2003 Leaks drive developer to central-city tower
16 Jan 2003 Developer chases rental returns guarantee
16 Jan 2003 Tower tangles with regulator
16 Jan 2003 AMP Henderson's picks for 2003
15 Jan 2003 RSA valued at A$2 billion plus
15 Jan 2003 Brokers see more than just problem borrowers
14 Jan 2003 Douglas's new super plan
14 Jan 2003 More than groceries
13 Jan 2003 Housing consents dip
13 Jan 2003 News Round Up
09 Jan 2003 Challenger cans sharebroking idea
09 Jan 2003 New Retirement Commissioner appointed
09 Jan 2003 Periodic Review Group named
09 Jan 2003 Changes at Loan Plan
09 Jan 2003 New Retirement Commissioner appointed
08 Jan 2003 Market Review: A year to forget?
07 Jan 2003 Summer reading list
07 Jan 2003 Life coys sign special deal with IRD
06 Jan 2003 Plans to reduce the amount of loan 'farming'
06 Jan 2003 Mearns joins PIS
06 Jan 2003 IRD reaches agreement with insurers
06 Jan 2003 News Round Up
03 Jan 2003 Calmer year predicted for property
December 2002
30 Dec 2002 Tower buyer remains a mystery
30 Dec 2002 Gallacher becomes Mercer principal
24 Dec 2002 Insurance and Superannuation Unit
24 Dec 2002 New Morningstar boss
24 Dec 2002 Teachers given more choice
24 Dec 2002 Oh! What a year
23 Dec 2002 Housing market continues to bubble
23 Dec 2002 Summer Rentals: Renting out your own home; Nelson
23 Dec 2002 Building societies no shrinking violets
20 Dec 2002 Housing market continues to bubble
20 Dec 2002 Minto confirmed as head
20 Dec 2002 Three funds put on hold
19 Dec 2002 Returns on NZ Super fund cut
19 Dec 2002 NZSE indices get early holiday
18 Dec 2002 Kiwibank to use brokers
18 Dec 2002 Kiwibank to use brokers
17 Dec 2002 Guardians advance their thinking on investing the fund
17 Dec 2002 Offshore buyers push up Queenstown property values
17 Dec 2002 ING new recruit
17 Dec 2002 Speculation about JB Were
16 Dec 2002 Avoiding litigation
16 Dec 2002 Simple but effective
16 Dec 2002 Better business practices means better business
16 Dec 2002 Bluestone arrives in NZ
15 Dec 2002 News Round Up
13 Dec 2002 Quarterly survey to continue - for now
12 Dec 2002 Financial advisers regime to be strengthened
12 Dec 2002 Followers of style
12 Dec 2002 First NZ Capital and Securities become one
11 Dec 2002 Wanted to rent: any home, anywhere
11 Dec 2002 Stand-off in Auckland property boom
11 Dec 2002 Who will lead Tower?
11 Dec 2002 Kiwibank's lending conservative: Knowles
10 Dec 2002 Cullen gives lesson on diversification
10 Dec 2002 Rental Shortage: Hawera, New Plymouth
10 Dec 2002 Australian Property market 'almost bizarre'
10 Dec 2002 Court win for building safety
10 Dec 2002 ACT Press Release: Flawed Income Related Rents Bill
10 Dec 2002 Calan apologies
09 Dec 2002 Big changes at AMPH
09 Dec 2002 News Round Up
09 Dec 2002 Stevens leaves ASFONZ
08 Dec 2002 More mansions sold
06 Dec 2002 Tower chair attacks former ceo
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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.
2 weeks 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.
2 weeks 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