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October 2012
19 Oct 2012 How to deal with irrational clients
19 Oct 2012 Lender no longer fixed, but floating along
19 Oct 2012 Banks loosen lending criteria
19 Oct 2012 Auckland holds on to rental premium
18 Oct 2012 [Weekly wrap] FMA sticks to its guns
18 Oct 2012 Housing market caught in vice
18 Oct 2012 Home loan rates may not fall much further
18 Oct 2012 NZ interest rates tipped to fall
18 Oct 2012 Aussie shares good value despite risks
18 Oct 2012 Investors offered rural opportunities
17 Oct 2012 Advice industry split on KiwiSaver rules
17 Oct 2012 Life coach convicted of mortgage fraud
17 Oct 2012 Kiwibank removes lending restrictions
17 Oct 2012 Commercial owners offered green cover
16 Oct 2012 Rate cut conditions improving
16 Oct 2012 Kiwibank removes special cap; BNZ says OCR can be lowered
16 Oct 2012 FMA confirms RFAs can sell KiwiSaver
16 Oct 2012 Newpark BDM joins TNP
16 Oct 2012 Bank questions housing market sustainability
16 Oct 2012 Best flats attract best tenants
15 Oct 2012 Home loan rates could be lower
15 Oct 2012 Rate withdrawn: ANZ's latest views
15 Oct 2012 Asia not as volatile as it seems
15 Oct 2012 Rates round-up: October 15
15 Oct 2012 Renewal of leases pushes NPT value up
15 Oct 2012 Agent survey shows little change
12 Oct 2012 Berry's back at Kiwibank
12 Oct 2012 Kiwibank extends earthquake package
12 Oct 2012 Local favourites fight for Perpetual
12 Oct 2012 No offer; fewer deals
12 Oct 2012 Scarfies name worst flats
12 Oct 2012 Lifestyle market steady: REINZ
12 Oct 2012 Familiar cure for bank hangover
11 Oct 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Risk profiling: who's responsible?
11 Oct 2012 Kiwibank extends earthquake package
11 Oct 2012 Adviser rejects psychometric risk profiling
11 Oct 2012 NZPIF backs IRD on rental business
10 Oct 2012 Vriens joins Dorchester
10 Oct 2012 Changes to KiwiSaver reports
10 Oct 2012 LM calls Trilogy bid opportunistic
10 Oct 2012 The latest to cut rates are...
10 Oct 2012 Mortgagee levels not as bad as reported: Helm
09 Oct 2012 Peer Review: A powerful tool for building better risk recommendations
09 Oct 2012 Another two year rate lowered
09 Oct 2012 New rescue plan for LM Investment funds
09 Oct 2012 SPI investors face tough choice
09 Oct 2012 House price rise slow and steady: QV
09 Oct 2012 Tax decision will concern investors
09 Oct 2012 Housing affordability improving
09 Oct 2012 Auckland-centric boom could spill over: Westpac
09 Oct 2012 Real estate confidence up: BNZ
09 Oct 2012 Rental market softening, Trade Me stats show
08 Oct 2012 Allied Farmers auditor raises concerns
08 Oct 2012 ANZ extends cash offer
08 Oct 2012 News Round Up: October 8
08 Oct 2012 It's not as bad as we think
08 Oct 2012 Rates round-up: October 8
08 Oct 2012 Latest Spring campaign news
08 Oct 2012 National house price up 6%: REINZ
08 Oct 2012 Five rental properties a business: IRD
07 Oct 2012 Greens call for capital gains tax
07 Oct 2012 Transitional period over for unit titles
05 Oct 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Who’ll buy Perpetual?
05 Oct 2012 Westpac has cut four key home loan fixed rates
05 Oct 2012 Swasbrook gone from Foundry
05 Oct 2012 Westpac latest to move
05 Oct 2012 Hospice house sale beats price expectations
05 Oct 2012 Digital TV a tenant's responsibility: DBH
04 Oct 2012 PAA chief executive resigns
04 Oct 2012 New bank goes low
04 Oct 2012 Property a strong investment: RBNZ
03 Oct 2012 Harbour commentary: Spiking the Punchbowl
03 Oct 2012 Advisers nervous about risk profiling
03 Oct 2012 ASB's astronomical offer
03 Oct 2012 Auckland house prices drop: Barfoot
02 Oct 2012 Another Calm Before the Storm?
02 Oct 2012 Perpetual adviser business sale nears
02 Oct 2012 Auckland inventory at five-year low
02 Oct 2012 National customers aren't colour blind
01 Oct 2012 Rates round-up: October 1
01 Oct 2012 Southern Cross launches online policy picker
01 Oct 2012 Perpetual motion
01 Oct 2012 One bank down another up
01 Oct 2012 Heat off rents in some parts of Auckland
01 Oct 2012 Fewer sweeteners in industrial deals: Bayleys
September 2012
30 Sep 2012 Obtaining finance a strictly Auckland issue
28 Sep 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Where are the new advisers coming from?
28 Sep 2012 Grosvenor nabs Goldridge man
28 Sep 2012 Kiwibank makes big cuts
28 Sep 2012 Recruitment outlook bleak
28 Sep 2012 Sovereign v Partners. Who will win?
28 Sep 2012 Leasehold apartments selling at bargain rates
28 Sep 2012 Little change in construction rates
27 Sep 2012 National Bank customers prey for other banks
27 Sep 2012 [Comment]
27 Sep 2012 Partners and Konnect have shareholder in common
27 Sep 2012 Hedging strategies and QEIII
27 Sep 2012 Kiiwbank makes big cuts
27 Sep 2012 Investors return to Auckland CBD
27 Sep 2012 Business as usual for National Bank home loan customers: ANZ
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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