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August 1998
19 Aug 1998 ANZ Funds Management to expand distribtution
18 Aug 1998 Size is everything
17 Aug 1998 Better active managers look good
17 Aug 1998 A bolt out of the Pru
17 Aug 1998 Code for Financial Advertising
17 Aug 1998 Colonial to gobble up Pru
17 Aug 1998 Weekly briefs
13 Aug 1998 American holidays derail IAFP meeting plans
12 Aug 1998 No big boys please
12 Aug 1998 Counting the cost of improved product disclosure
10 Aug 1998 Aussies prepared to help if required
10 Aug 1998 Weekly briefs
10 Aug 1998 Opposition to merger mounts
07 Aug 1998 Colonial charts new territory
06 Aug 1998 Property fears
04 Aug 1998 Day of reckoning dawns
03 Aug 1998 Fund manager ranks thinning
03 Aug 1998 Roger Gill goes
03 Aug 1998 Weekly briefs
July 1998
30 Jul 1998 BNZ helps the exodus
30 Jul 1998 AIA confirms its position on Quantum
28 Jul 1998 National Bank to buy Countrywide
28 Jul 1998 IRD goes stag hunting
27 Jul 1998 Weekly briefs
27 Jul 1998 Kia-ora (again) Myles Baron-Hay
24 Jul 1998 Tower Trust and TEA merge
23 Jul 1998 Merger proposal hinges on CFP board
23 Jul 1998 Can active managers outperform the index?
22 Jul 1998 AMP widens the net
21 Jul 1998 Pooled funds plug pulled
21 Jul 1998 Advisers form lobby group
20 Jul 1998 Weekly briefs
19 Jul 1998 Canterbury rebels
17 Jul 1998 A quantum step<br>for adviser-kind
15 Jul 1998 Money Show may go
15 Jul 1998 NZ Dollar - Too Far, Too Fast?
14 Jul 1998 Tower retains Morgan Grenfell
13 Jul 1998 Weekly briefs
11 Jul 1998 Labour outlines its super policy
11 Jul 1998 Can active managers outperform the index?
11 Jul 1998 Labour outlines its super policy
09 Jul 1998 ANZ pulled north
07 Jul 1998 Govt reckons it's losing $20 mill a year
07 Jul 1998 Growing the Savings Dollar
07 Jul 1998 NZIT scores an own goal
07 Jul 1998 Two quantum technology leaps
06 Jul 1998 Weekly briefs
02 Jul 1998 Colonial to chart new waters
01 Jul 1998 Briggs sells up
June 1998
30 Jun 1998 Financial planners go online
29 Jun 1998 Trading Funds - An Alternative Asset Class
29 Jun 1998 A blow for passive funds
28 Jun 1998 Weekly briefs
25 Jun 1998 Four in a row for Tower
24 Jun 1998 The resurrection of insurance bonds
22 Jun 1998 Weekly briefs
21 Jun 1998 First 10 minutes trading not normal
21 Jun 1998 Jigsaw unfinished
18 Jun 1998 Govt told to get policies right for savings
17 Jun 1998 Mediator zaps star wars
17 Jun 1998 The ISI's wake up cal w
16 Jun 1998 Darkness before dawn
14 Jun 1998 Weekly briefs
12 Jun 1998 Getting a grip on savings levels
11 Jun 1998 Tax disincentives needed not tax incentives
10 Jun 1998 Household savings rate far from impressive
10 Jun 1998 Do not file New Zealand Superannuation just yet
09 Jun 1998 Peters places retirement savings on the agenda
08 Jun 1998 Au revoir MLC
08 Jun 1998 AMP adviser defends himself
08 Jun 1998 AMP shareholders do well
08 Jun 1998 Weekly briefs
07 Jun 1998 Tower's membership confirmed
04 Jun 1998 Money Managers and Waltus in a stoush
03 Jun 1998 Premiums not deductible
03 Jun 1998 AMP shareholders ripped off
02 Jun 1998 Opening the door to electronic commerce
02 Jun 1998 South East Asia: A window of opportunity?
02 Jun 1998 From small beginnings
02 Jun 1998 Making warrants for capital gains
01 Jun 1998 Bond run comes to an end
May 1998
28 May 1998 Investors given greater protection
28 May 1998 Peace talks for star wars
27 May 1998 AMP advisers to distribute bank products
26 May 1998 Equitilink privatisation plans
26 May 1998 TEA closes funds
25 May 1998 A user's guide to the AMP facility
25 May 1998 Weekly briefs
24 May 1998 Managers buy in to broking firm
24 May 1998 Standards and Poors saddles up its ratings horse
21 May 1998 Blast off for the stars
21 May 1998 ISI expresses strong reservations over tax credit system
20 May 1998 Free Investment Property Showcase Events: Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch
19 May 1998 Starless ratings
18 May 1998 Weekly briefs
18 May 1998 Guardian Assurance looks to expand its range
18 May 1998 Aon and Jacques Martin do a deal
14 May 1998 IPAC at odds with ISI
14 May 1998 Tax cuts unlikely to increase savings rate
13 May 1998 Nat Mut/MLC merger canned
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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