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October 2013
02 Oct 2013 LVR restrictions 'could spark complaints'
02 Oct 2013 Milford adds fund
02 Oct 2013 Older lives still need cover
02 Oct 2013 Former non-bank lender joins TNP
02 Oct 2013 Act penalties insufficient
02 Oct 2013 Building consents slow
02 Oct 2013 LVR restrictions 'could spark complaints'
01 Oct 2013 Delay in draft of proposed new advisers' code
01 Oct 2013 IFA CEO resigns
01 Oct 2013 Govt gifts deposits to regional buyers
01 Oct 2013 Record asking price recorded
September 2013
30 Sep 2013 Scaled trauma cover may lower premiums
30 Sep 2013 Fixed interest a fine balance for advisers
30 Sep 2013 GPG sells out of TOWER
30 Sep 2013 Kiwi money man has assets frozen and passport surrendered
30 Sep 2013 Changes to ASB rates
30 Sep 2013 8 in a row for Sovereign
30 Sep 2013 Time to rethink reporting of returns
30 Sep 2013 Five months for plan submissions
30 Sep 2013 Short-term LVR effect predicted
29 Sep 2013 Watch out for new non-smokers: ISO
27 Sep 2013 The future of pre-approvals in doubt
27 Sep 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Ross still making headlines
27 Sep 2013 LVR moves slowing housing supply
26 Sep 2013 Adviser fined for using Ross Asset Management
26 Sep 2013 Small-spend trips a big adviser disclosure concern
26 Sep 2013 RBNZ 'learning by doing'
26 Sep 2013 Returns 'pay off' for green building
26 Sep 2013 Lender charged unreasonable fees
26 Sep 2013 Advisers should be coaches: Kneebone
26 Sep 2013 Reserve Bank could target investors
25 Sep 2013 Blow for Ross investors
25 Sep 2013 More mergers likely: PWC
25 Sep 2013 Perpetual now officially an Australian firm
25 Sep 2013 Mortgages more expensive
24 Sep 2013 Finance Minister slams ASB move
24 Sep 2013 AIA adds a sales team
24 Sep 2013 New fixed interest manager in NZ
24 Sep 2013 Regulation inhibiting advice
24 Sep 2013 ASB cancels pre-approved loans
23 Sep 2013 Pre-approvals cancelled
23 Sep 2013 What's in the L and V of LVR?
23 Sep 2013 It's not just home loans that maybe counted in LVR numbers
23 Sep 2013 Commission charged on high end of price
23 Sep 2013 ASB cancels preapprovals
22 Sep 2013 Pressure on Kiwi equities market
21 Sep 2013 Retirees are living longer, creating a new star financial product
20 Sep 2013 TOWER Life sale a boon for some
20 Sep 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Forward planning and looking back
20 Sep 2013 KiwiSaver ruling for minimum wage earners
20 Sep 2013 Specials not so special
20 Sep 2013 Sharebrokers now in FMA's sights
20 Sep 2013 Whatever gets you through...retirement
20 Sep 2013 Migration momentum a property driver: ANZ
19 Sep 2013 RBNZ sounds less relaxed
19 Sep 2013 There will be a boom in advice: James
19 Sep 2013 Commentator concerned at loss of data
18 Sep 2013 FMA says it will do better with FMCA than AML
18 Sep 2013 Hamilton renters get warning
17 Sep 2013 nibs says lots of opportunities in health insurance market
17 Sep 2013 AFAs set to produce their own annual reports
17 Sep 2013 House prices likely to start to cool in November: Westpac
16 Sep 2013 Challenge to grow insurance market: Southern Cross
16 Sep 2013 Record health insurance payout
16 Sep 2013 BNZ KiwiSaver Scheme hits $100m FUM
16 Sep 2013 ASB adds second special
16 Sep 2013 Call to address gap between RFAs and AFAs
16 Sep 2013 Sellers' market, prices rising: Survey
16 Sep 2013 Regional first-home buyers acting fast: REINZ
13 Sep 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Adviser 'skipping processes'
13 Sep 2013 Young borrowers actively rate shopping
13 Sep 2013 Young borrowers actively rate shopping
13 Sep 2013 Partners Life outlines its dealer group strategy
13 Sep 2013 Advisers still getting to grips with regulation
13 Sep 2013 Rent control policy questioned
12 Sep 2013 Accuro CEO resigns
12 Sep 2013 Complaints processes 'lacking'
12 Sep 2013 LVR move's effectiveness uncertain: Wheeler
12 Sep 2013 What the Reserve Bank said
12 Sep 2013 What the Reserve Bank said
12 Sep 2013 ASIC concerns addressed by manager
12 Sep 2013 LVR move's effectiveness uncertain: Wheeler
11 Sep 2013 Partners Life to become a group player
11 Sep 2013 OnePath name to go (for some)
11 Sep 2013 Money Week calls up; but not huge
11 Sep 2013 Lowest rate in a decade
10 Sep 2013 Lowest home loan rate in a decade: HSBC
10 Sep 2013 No OCR change, but rates still rising
10 Sep 2013 Affordability action starts now: Brown
09 Sep 2013 Insurers hit licence deadline
09 Sep 2013 Adviser website idea panned
09 Sep 2013 ANZ replaces Thompson
09 Sep 2013 Battle for control of Guardian Trust's parent continues
09 Sep 2013 OCR on hold but not all good news for borrowers
09 Sep 2013 FMA: Investors will be disappointed
09 Sep 2013 Life insuers get licence plates
09 Sep 2013 Pathfinder: Keeping ETF fees real
09 Sep 2013 PAA and IFA disagree on proposed Code changes
09 Sep 2013 QV: LVR move won't slow market
07 Sep 2013 LVR restrictions impact home loan pricing
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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