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May 1999
13 May 1999 Here come the Highlanders
12 May 1999 Return expectations lowered
11 May 1999 AMP’s affordable home loan repayment cover
10 May 1999 Colonial First State takes the hard option
10 May 1999 Members give Tower the green light
09 May 1999 Asian giant slowly gains momentum
09 May 1999 Weekly briefs
09 May 1999 A cautionary tale...
07 May 1999 Another fund manager gobbled up
06 May 1999 AMP’s home loan insurance takes flexible approach
05 May 1999 Eriksen's Master Trust Survey: Some managers are more canny or skilful
05 May 1999 Banks shake off the Asian flu
04 May 1999 KPMG survey positive for financial sector
03 May 1999 Peters' plan to get rid of unprofessional advisers
02 May 1999 Mercer survey: A volatile quarter
02 May 1999 Weekly briefs
02 May 1999 Complaints continue on fixed rate loans
April 1999
29 Apr 1999 AIA launch unique business policy
28 Apr 1999 Research: NZ will benefit from rising commodity prices
28 Apr 1999 Investors need to be told of the dangers of syndicated property
27 Apr 1999 EquitiLink signs off
27 Apr 1999 BankDirect improves home lending service
26 Apr 1999 Peters calls for all advisers to be registered
26 Apr 1999 Low mortgage rates fuel sales
26 Apr 1999 National Mutual throws out the crystal ball
26 Apr 1999 Weekly briefs
23 Apr 1999 Home mortgage affordability: it's still good news
22 Apr 1999 Royal considering Tower takeover
21 Apr 1999 Privatising ACC presents many new opportunites in the disability incom
21 Apr 1999 It's steady as she goes
21 Apr 1999 Bumper quarter for funds
20 Apr 1999 Colonial returns to property
19 Apr 1999 State Insurance forms alliance with the state
19 Apr 1999 Lenders cut fixed mortgage rates
19 Apr 1999 Home loan market takes a new turn
19 Apr 1999 Have they got a deal for you...
19 Apr 1999 Budget fillip likely for property market
18 Apr 1999 Australian and NZ funds come up trumps
18 Apr 1999 Weekly briefs
15 Apr 1999 New manager for former Renouf funds
14 Apr 1999 Wrap accounts: They're here, but who needs them?
14 Apr 1999 Colonial enters Workers Comp market
13 Apr 1999 NZRPT sweetens its closure proposal
12 Apr 1999 Calan closes the door to stop a flood of funds
12 Apr 1999 Tower policyholders get reduced, but adequate, security under demutual
11 Apr 1999 Weekly briefs
08 Apr 1999 Knives out for NZRPT manager
07 Apr 1999 NZ Funds gears up its equity fund
06 Apr 1999 Star falls but doesn't wane
06 Apr 1999 Portfolio Talk: Crispin Murray
05 Apr 1999 Weekly briefs
March 1999
31 Mar 1999 FPIAA born afterdifficult gestation
30 Mar 1999 Deal helps bridge Newmarket's yield gap
30 Mar 1999 ASB takes the softly, softly approach with Sovereign
29 Mar 1999 FPIAA still working on CFP licence transfer
28 Mar 1999 Weekly briefs
25 Mar 1999 "Cargo cult" mentality earns adviser four years in jail
25 Mar 1999 Unitholders scuttle merger
24 Mar 1999 Researchers put BT on hold
23 Mar 1999 Deutsche Bank gets rid of its inheritance
22 Mar 1999 GPG wins a court battle
21 Mar 1999 People: Rodney Cook
21 Mar 1999 If advisers know best, why doesn’t everyone take advice?
21 Mar 1999 Weekly briefs
19 Mar 1999 BT on the block
19 Mar 1999 Unitholders oppose merger
17 Mar 1999 Bank's rate catches market on the hop
16 Mar 1999 National Mutual and State form an alliance
15 Mar 1999 GPG aims to take Tower to the Privy Council
14 Mar 1999 Weekly briefs
12 Mar 1999 Adviser convicted of fraud
11 Mar 1999 Investment advisers criticised
11 Mar 1999 Wrap accounts: The next revolution in portfolio administration systems
09 Mar 1999 Fisher funds seeks to draw life out of unexpected places
09 Mar 1999 In defence of property bonds
07 Mar 1999 Research: Vacancy levels likely to increase
07 Mar 1999 Weekly briefs
04 Mar 1999 Tower tells investors their fees are too high
03 Mar 1999 Pinnacle finds the going tough
03 Mar 1999 Tower becomes the hunter
03 Mar 1999 Asset Allocation: A "reasonably defensive" portfolio picked for 1999
01 Mar 1999 Quantum gets wrapped up
February 1999
28 Feb 1999 Weekly briefs
25 Feb 1999 Guardian Trust looks to raise money to buy an industrial portfolio
24 Feb 1999 Experts cautiously favour New Zealand assets
22 Feb 1999 <i>Consumer</i> says standard of advice has not improved
22 Feb 1999 FPG Research to disappear
21 Feb 1999 Weekly briefs
21 Feb 1999 People: Terry Millett
20 Feb 1999 Health insurance becoming more necessary
20 Feb 1999 Healthcare made sensible
20 Feb 1999 BNZ Premier Healthcare
19 Feb 1999 28-month courtship consummated
17 Feb 1999 Living without the MCI
17 Feb 1999 Learning to live with the Euro
17 Feb 1999 Royal & SunAlliance bids for Tower's suitor
16 Feb 1999 AJ to offer advisers buyer of last resort option
15 Feb 1999 AJ looks to play greater role in distribution
14 Feb 1999 Trusts: How to deal with new gifting rules
14 Feb 1999 Portfolio Talk: Fergus McDonald
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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.
1 week 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