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September 2011
30 Sep 2011 Telecom's retail bondholders overwhelmingly approve split
30 Sep 2011 Rating downgrades could keep OCR on hold for longer
30 Sep 2011 Good Returns adds to team
30 Sep 2011 Call for IRD to vet KiwiSaver hardship claims
30 Sep 2011 Kiwibank jiggles its fixed rates
30 Sep 2011 Every silver lining has a cloud
30 Sep 2011 Home approval numbers show ‘strong increases’
29 Sep 2011 FMA promises to park at top of cliff
29 Sep 2011 Alternative Monetary Policy Statement
29 Sep 2011 OCR should remain at 2.5%: Dickens
29 Sep 2011 iPhone rental app proves popular home and away
28 Sep 2011 When the adviser is the insurance
28 Sep 2011 New consultant appointment at Russell Investments
28 Sep 2011 Dividend flavour to new Pie fund
28 Sep 2011 Financial Services Federation appoints new chair, deputy chair
28 Sep 2011 ISO Case Studies - ASSET Sep 2011
28 Sep 2011 KiwiSaver and the c-word
28 Sep 2011 NZF's new backer named
27 Sep 2011 Carroll departs Asteron
27 Sep 2011 Resimac to take majority stake in NZF's securitisation operations
27 Sep 2011 New specials
26 Sep 2011 An Auckland epiphany
26 Sep 2011 Outage ousts FSPR from web
26 Sep 2011 News Round Up: September 26
26 Sep 2011 DIY attitude and cost concerns prompt landlords’ to reject property managers
23 Sep 2011 Financial complaints system has fundamental flaw: FDR
23 Sep 2011 Central Otago Lakes and Auckland most expensive for property
23 Sep 2011 Quake repair work prompts surge in demand for short term tenancies
22 Sep 2011 Forget rates hikes this year
22 Sep 2011 NZF writes off its $5.1m investment in NZF Money, takes $10.7m loss
22 Sep 2011 Weak data, global turmoil put paid to floating rates rising this year
22 Sep 2011 Telecom sweetens offer to retail bondholders
22 Sep 2011 NZF Money's receivership expect significant loan book impairment
22 Sep 2011 FMA's targets identified
22 Sep 2011 Turning complainants to customers
22 Sep 2011 Pero has high praise for low commission model
21 Sep 2011 Measuring the success of regulations
21 Sep 2011 A capital gains tax will drive up rents: Minister
20 Sep 2011 FMA wants overseas crime loophole fixed
20 Sep 2011 It’s not what goes into that counts; it’s what comes out
20 Sep 2011 ..and then it all happened
20 Sep 2011 Within Auckland Franklin is flourishing, Waitakeres woeful
20 Sep 2011 Manch to quit as REAA chief
19 Sep 2011 Interest rates remain flat, although choppy water all around
19 Sep 2011 Joint chairmen appointed at Planet Financial Group
19 Sep 2011 Filling in time
18 Sep 2011 News Round Up: September 19
16 Sep 2011 Birkenhead bucks rent trends
16 Sep 2011 Providers back FMA KiwiSaver focus
16 Sep 2011 Floating rates unlikely to rise this year
16 Sep 2011 Calls for earthquake strengthening costs to be depreciable
15 Sep 2011 Magellan puts a man on the ground in NZ
15 Sep 2011 Bill opens up investor access to local Government bonds
15 Sep 2011 MDRT offers sales tools to advisers
15 Sep 2011 Future interest rate hikes softened
15 Sep 2011 Blue Star MD resigns
15 Sep 2011 Floating mortgage rates unlikely to rise as OCR remains on hold
15 Sep 2011 Floating rates unlikely to rise this year
15 Sep 2011 [Comment] Telecom offers retail bond investors an inferior deal
15 Sep 2011 RBNZ gives its latest thoughts on OCR
15 Sep 2011 RBNZ leaves cash rate on hold
15 Sep 2011 Adviser feedback prompts TNP pilot
15 Sep 2011 Floating mortgage rates unlikely to rise this year as OCR remains on hold
14 Sep 2011 FMA says 16 finance companies under investigation, six off the hook
14 Sep 2011 SFO, FMA lay a swag of criminal charges against Belgrave directors
14 Sep 2011 Top brokers still see a prominent place for fixed-rate mortgages
14 Sep 2011 There's still a place for fixed rates
14 Sep 2011 FMA outlines Enforcement priorities
13 Sep 2011 Telecom bondholders offered fee to approve de-merger
13 Sep 2011 Parts of Auckland see property values above 2007 peak
13 Sep 2011 Will the Unbeatable campaign return?
13 Sep 2011 MED throws out FMA funding fee proposal
13 Sep 2011 QV August 2011 – the regions
12 Sep 2011 Waiting for the Spring money sale
12 Sep 2011 Interest rates likely to stay on hold
12 Sep 2011 News Round Up: September 12
12 Sep 2011 News Round Up: September 12
12 Sep 2011 Sir Bob Jones expands Auckland office portfolio
12 Sep 2011 Bollard likely to keep interest rates on hold this week
11 Sep 2011 Harbour Commentary: Bond markets pricing in a lost decade
11 Sep 2011 It's not ethical for managers to keep getting fees on frozen funds
11 Sep 2011 Bollard likely to keep interest rates on hold this week
09 Sep 2011 Tyndall Monthly Commentary
09 Sep 2011 QFEs get report card from FMA
09 Sep 2011 NZF back in business
08 Sep 2011 North South investors may recover up to another 8.5c in the dollar
08 Sep 2011 Further payouts to North South debenture holders unlikely
08 Sep 2011 What is normal for home loan rates?
08 Sep 2011 Residential building activity near to 20-year low
08 Sep 2011 Investor activity muted nationwide, large variations across regions
07 Sep 2011 Further payouts to North South debenture holders unlikely
07 Sep 2011 Will fixing become normal again?
07 Sep 2011 Blog: Where are the regulators when you need them?
07 Sep 2011 Australian cash rate remains unmoved
07 Sep 2011 Some valuers are scaremongering about panel system: PropertyIQ
06 Sep 2011 Where are the regulators when you need them?
06 Sep 2011 Perpetual adds a new adviser
06 Sep 2011 Advisers with convictions registered
06 Sep 2011 Floating along
05 Sep 2011 News Round Up: September 5
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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.
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