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September 1999
27 Sep 1999 Secondary schools super comp
27 Sep 1999 Taking technology to the Sky
27 Sep 1999 It's spring...time to prune back your loan
27 Sep 1999 Competition hots up amongst online brokers
27 Sep 1999 Who's charging what for online broking
27 Sep 1999 Access Brokerage's fully integrated Internet trading service
26 Sep 1999 Weekly briefs
23 Sep 1999 ACC changes mean income protection premiums likely to rise
23 Sep 1999 Labour vs. National- Where's the Smart Money?
23 Sep 1999 Questions you need to ask politicians
22 Sep 1999 Christmas payout on the cards for RSB holders
22 Sep 1999 Investors still keen on property
22 Sep 1999 Warning, warning - pull out
21 Sep 1999 End of an era
21 Sep 1999 Alliance
21 Sep 1999 Pointers, not policy
21 Sep 1999 Labour plans to establish a publicly funded superannuation scheme
21 Sep 1999 NZ First to campaign heavily on super
21 Sep 1999 National has two main initiatives
21 Sep 1999 United - Golden Plan for Positive Ageing
20 Sep 1999 Bouquets and brickbats from the Banking Ombudsman
20 Sep 1999 Weekly briefs
17 Sep 1999 Finalists announced
16 Sep 1999 Fixed rates increase across the board
16 Sep 1999 Investment trusts band together
15 Sep 1999 Health insurance companies 'caught red-handed'
14 Sep 1999 Property market off the boil
14 Sep 1999 Showdown at the NZRPT corral
13 Sep 1999 WestpacTrust offer: How to get some of your bank fees back
13 Sep 1999 Weekly briefs
11 Sep 1999 Go West and Prosper
11 Sep 1999 Comparing the online services
11 Sep 1999 Australian broker enters NZ market
09 Sep 1999 Super funds anything but super
08 Sep 1999 Too late to fix
07 Sep 1999 Banks experiment with advisory recipes
07 Sep 1999 WestpacTrust Investments share offer details
07 Sep 1999 BNZ lifts interest rate predictions
07 Sep 1999 Tortis Ozzy made more accessible
06 Sep 1999 IRD to change the rules on planning fees
06 Sep 1999 More slimming tips for your mortgage
05 Sep 1999 Weekly briefs
03 Sep 1999 Administration services: $3.5 billion under control
02 Sep 1999 Fund writedowns anger advisers
02 Sep 1999 Subdued outlook for rental market
02 Sep 1999 Retirement commission needs reviewing
02 Sep 1999 Retirement Commission needs reviewing
01 Sep 1999 SIFA softens stand on independence
August 1999
30 Aug 1999 National hints at resurrecting Tolis
30 Aug 1999 Firmer house prices likely, although confidence is down
30 Aug 1999 Super2000 Taskforce's job explained
30 Aug 1999 What can we expect on Superannuation
29 Aug 1999 Weekly briefs
29 Aug 1999 Advisory industry faces skills shortage
27 Aug 1999 Put your mortgage on a diet
26 Aug 1999 BNZ opens private banking network
25 Aug 1999 Judge says NAB must answer Ausmaq claims
24 Aug 1999 Tower announces details of share offer
24 Aug 1999 Booming property funds hit a bump
23 Aug 1999 Calan wins listing approval
23 Aug 1999 Auckland market on the move
22 Aug 1999 NZ Household Savings: Good News and Bad News
22 Aug 1999 Weekly briefs
19 Aug 1999 Receivers appointed to Rural Super bonds scheme
18 Aug 1999 FPIA gives adviser registration the thumbs down
18 Aug 1999 What Don Brash said
18 Aug 1999 RB leaves rates unchanged<br>...for the meantime
18 Aug 1999 RB leaves rates unchanged...for the meantime
18 Aug 1999 OCR tightening unlikely
17 Aug 1999 Fixed rates on the climb
17 Aug 1999 Markets: Is the party at Bill Clinton's place over?
16 Aug 1999 Y2K investment risks no greater than daily risks
15 Aug 1999 Weekly briefs
15 Aug 1999 Borrowers chase best looking rates
12 Aug 1999 Tower Trust enlarges its back office
12 Aug 1999 Driving down debt: the Martin Hawes approach
11 Aug 1999 Top NAB executive departs
10 Aug 1999 People: Michael Good<br>A Good six years
10 Aug 1999 Colonial has trouble stemming the Prudential outflows
10 Aug 1999 IRD loses another fees case
08 Aug 1999 Weekly briefs
08 Aug 1999 Counting the cost of mortgage holidays
06 Aug 1999 Short term outlook for shares lowered
05 Aug 1999 Industry labelled a failure
04 Aug 1999 Firmer rates put brakes on property market
03 Aug 1999 Markets: Have Asian and Emerging Markets really turned the corner?
03 Aug 1999 Fees deductible (this time)
02 Aug 1999 Banking on the bank
02 Aug 1999 Mortgage Brokers Association pushes for higher standards
July 1999
30 Jul 1999 Weekly briefs
28 Jul 1999 National Bank to stay in Wellington
28 Jul 1999 Beware those extra mortgage costs
28 Jul 1999 Principal doesn't plan to leave BT fallow
27 Jul 1999 Consumer's Institute warns about "carpetbaggers"
27 Jul 1999 Eriksen Master Trust survey
26 Jul 1999 Partial tax incentives an option
26 Jul 1999 Consumer's Institute warns about "carpetbaggers"
26 Jul 1999 Wielding the axe at National Mutual
26 Jul 1999 Weekly briefs
26 Jul 1999 Partial tax incentives an option
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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