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May 1998
12 May 1998 AMP listing sharemarket catalyst
11 May 1998 Tax credit system plagued by deficiencies
11 May 1998 Attribution analysis questioned
08 May 1998 Too many stars
07 May 1998 Colonial endorses new investment style
06 May 1998 Here comes Tyndall
06 May 1998 The Wright stuff
04 May 1998 Super urgency
03 May 1998 Weekly briefs
02 May 1998 Property on track
01 May 1998 Tax credits don’t add up
April 1998
30 Apr 1998 NZ Funds go for value
29 Apr 1998 Northplan buys Turner Financial Services
27 Apr 1998 Sovereign buys Reeves Moses
27 Apr 1998 Unit trusts the winner
26 Apr 1998 Weekly briefs
24 Apr 1998 Broadbase narrows
22 Apr 1998 New funds management boss at BNZ
22 Apr 1998 Good marriage advice
21 Apr 1998 What's in a name?
19 Apr 1998 Weekly briefs
16 Apr 1998 Who do you believe?
15 Apr 1998 Pru revisits trauma policies
15 Apr 1998 EquitiLink launches fresh assault
13 Apr 1998 Star wars
13 Apr 1998 Weekly briefs
09 Apr 1998 Wright new IAFP chairman
09 Apr 1998 Funds fail to add value
07 Apr 1998 Bye bye Jonesy
06 Apr 1998 The balanced manager : A dinosaur?
05 Apr 1998 Breaking the bonds
05 Apr 1998 The removal of the surcharge
05 Apr 1998 Weekly briefs
03 Apr 1998 Property is the latest to join the index craze
02 Apr 1998 Baron-Hay to head up BT
02 Apr 1998 Aussies snap up Kiwi Income managers
01 Apr 1998 ANZFM rolls in big guns
March 1998
31 Mar 1998 IAFP chairman and three others resign
30 Mar 1998 Weekly briefs
27 Mar 1998 IPAC launches star ratings
26 Mar 1998 Sovereign shares $2.25 each
26 Mar 1998 The bad news, the good news and the question mark?
25 Mar 1998 IPAC makes declaration
24 Mar 1998 Now there are three research houses
23 Mar 1998 Advisers told to get rid of baddies
23 Mar 1998 Weekly briefs
18 Mar 1998 InvestmentLink gets major boost
17 Mar 1998 Paying off debt a priority
17 Mar 1998 Tax credit scheme coming
15 Mar 1998 WestpacTrust on the turn
15 Mar 1998 Trident launches research package
15 Mar 1998 Weekly briefs
13 Mar 1998 <I>Consumer</I> slams advisers
13 Mar 1998 Expansion by growth - literally
11 Mar 1998 NZRPT survives wind-up threat
10 Mar 1998 Nat Mut takes over MLC
09 Mar 1998 The big one is still to come
08 Mar 1998 Royal and Sun Alliance nabs Norwich
06 Mar 1998 Kleinwort trust to be liquidated
04 Mar 1998 Local boys do good
03 Mar 1998 Sovereign pushes listing button - finally
01 Mar 1998 Weekly briefs
February 1998
25 Feb 1998 Tower's AGM bit of a damp squib
25 Feb 1998 Few active managers really add value
24 Feb 1998 The lights are out, but the candle still burns
23 Feb 1998 Weekly briefs
19 Feb 1998 Regulation on the cards
18 Feb 1998 Ergo exits
17 Feb 1998 More pieces to the puzzle found
17 Feb 1998 Is asset allocation a hoax?
16 Feb 1998 Weekly briefs
12 Feb 1998 Spicers makes the change
12 Feb 1998 Cash is hot. Equities are not
12 Feb 1998 Institute shoots at sharks
12 Feb 1998 Retirement is more than money
11 Feb 1998 NZRPT meeting adjourned
10 Feb 1998 AJ wins award
10 Feb 1998 AJ throws down the gauntlet
05 Feb 1998 Tree trust toppled
04 Feb 1998 Fisher to establish own funds
02 Feb 1998 Forest trust gets the chop
02 Feb 1998 Weekly briefs
January 1998
30 Jan 1998 Merger talks on again
29 Jan 1998 Sovereign anticipates March listing
27 Jan 1998 Trust's structure flawed
27 Jan 1998 Weekly briefs
25 Jan 1998 Whitten leaves Prudential
21 Jan 1998 Nat Mutual and MLC say I do
21 Jan 1998 Financial Fitness goes north
20 Jan 1998 IAFP and ICFP look to future
16 Jan 1998 Weekly briefs
16 Jan 1998 Don't do it
13 Jan 1998 Top trust under wind-up threat
13 Jan 1998 An investment to mull over
12 Jan 1998 Tower Trust signs up
December 1997
23 Dec 1997 Monitoring fees under pressure
23 Dec 1997 Public Trust ownership heads for court
23 Dec 1997 Annual awards
22 Dec 1997 Weekly briefs
18 Dec 1997 Independence ruling unenforced
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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