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October 2017
05 Oct 2017 Two groups working together for advisers
05 Oct 2017 Russell McVeagh acts on Sovereign deal
05 Oct 2017 New class action on leaky homes
05 Oct 2017 FMA to KiwiSaver providers: We are getting impatient
04 Oct 2017 ANZ chief economist calls it a day
04 Oct 2017 Auckland sales fall further
04 Oct 2017 Quarterly value chill
04 Oct 2017 Edmonds' fund supermarket takes out competitor
03 Oct 2017 Making meth testing easier
03 Oct 2017 ANZ chief economist calls it a day
03 Oct 2017 ASB's turn; New (old) lender returns
03 Oct 2017 Clients' sense of security 'most important'
02 Oct 2017 TSB ditches bank name
02 Oct 2017 SBS offers 10-year bond
02 Oct 2017 ASB chief executive steps down
02 Oct 2017 Are you part of someone else’s plan?
02 Oct 2017 HSBC launches sub 4% home loan rate
02 Oct 2017 Tauranga growth slow & steady
02 Oct 2017 Pathfinder focuses on responsibility
02 Oct 2017 Spicers brand disappears
02 Oct 2017 Partners Life introduces a new range of level premium options.
01 Oct 2017 Australian non-bank lender set to return to NZ
September 2017
29 Sep 2017 Consents spike not enough
29 Sep 2017 The start of Fidelity's digital transformation
29 Sep 2017 Algorithm handles rebalancing
29 Sep 2017 Nest Home Loans appoints two new advisers
29 Sep 2017 Getting to Know: Murray Harris
29 Sep 2017 Chief executive tipped to lead
29 Sep 2017 Financial Advice NZ: Much ado about nothing?
28 Sep 2017 Don’t assume prices will keep rising - ANZ
28 Sep 2017 Growth outlook overshadows OCR call
28 Sep 2017 Super Fund buoyed by global equities
28 Sep 2017 Growth outlook overshadows OCR call
28 Sep 2017 RBNZ announces OCR decision
28 Sep 2017 RBNZ announces OCR decision
28 Sep 2017 Acting governor Grant Spencer announces OCR decision
28 Sep 2017 14pc of inquiries about advisers, FMA says
28 Sep 2017 Transparency, simplicity 'key for insurance growth'
28 Sep 2017 Deadline looms for information returns
28 Sep 2017 No Spring lift in investor lending
27 Sep 2017 Predicting election impact
27 Sep 2017 Spring rise in lending
27 Sep 2017 Aussie robo provider wants to partner with Kiwi advisers
27 Sep 2017 Insurer creates new role
26 Sep 2017 Fintech accelerator to run again
26 Sep 2017 Whistle-blowers more exposed under new rules
25 Sep 2017 OCR preview: What economists are thinking now
25 Sep 2017 Syndicating options
25 Sep 2017 ASB keeps ownership of Sovereign Home Loans
25 Sep 2017 Saturn appoints AFA
25 Sep 2017 Kiwi Wealth latest to get responsible tick
25 Sep 2017 AIA doesn't buy Sovereign Home loans. What now?
25 Sep 2017 Peters as Kingmaker: What next for investors?
25 Sep 2017 Caution to dictate OCR call this week
22 Sep 2017 RBNZ ditches bank disclosure statements
22 Sep 2017 Getting to Know: Andrew Kelleher
22 Sep 2017 Newpark paying for members to do Level 5 papers
22 Sep 2017 Advisers welcome Sovereign sale news
22 Sep 2017 FMA reports on register crackdown
22 Sep 2017 NZAM makes changes
22 Sep 2017 Simplicity offers income option
21 Sep 2017 Radical reform for Wellington housing
21 Sep 2017 Clients complain about advisers
21 Sep 2017 Migration may have peaked
21 Sep 2017 Sovereign deal signed
21 Sep 2017 Sovereign sold
21 Sep 2017 Labour would change Reserve Bank - so what?
20 Sep 2017 Election 2017: the housing round up
20 Sep 2017 Three terms lowered at The Co-operative Bank
20 Sep 2017 Rents surge for urban living options
20 Sep 2017 Biggest ever non-Govt bond offer reaches the end
20 Sep 2017 Struggling peer-to-peer platforms told to reconsider strategy
20 Sep 2017 Advisers should speak up for investor unfairness
20 Sep 2017 Funding a problem for Lending Crowd
19 Sep 2017 Hobson Wealth announces new hires
19 Sep 2017 The Auckland housing crisis - not even half the numbers
19 Sep 2017 ANZ changes
19 Sep 2017 FANZ versus Financial Advice NZ
18 Sep 2017 Election 2017: the housing round up
18 Sep 2017 Zurich, AIA make play for Sovereign
18 Sep 2017 SBS down; BNZ up
18 Sep 2017 Synergy announces resignation
18 Sep 2017 Don’t bank on those dividends
15 Sep 2017 Southern Cross reports healthy result
15 Sep 2017 Getting to Know: Toni Dodds
15 Sep 2017 Sales down but life in market
15 Sep 2017 New director for FDRS
15 Sep 2017 Smartshares reduces ETF fees
15 Sep 2017 Local managers could miss out on passport benefits
15 Sep 2017 No need to open KiwiSaver to finance companies: AMP
14 Sep 2017 Triplejump could get boost from new qualification rules
14 Sep 2017 Rents set to rise if Labour wins
14 Sep 2017 Online offer 'more than quote and compare'
14 Sep 2017 Consilium named finalist in awards
14 Sep 2017 No case to end LVRs – S&P
14 Sep 2017 Bonds failure costs landlord nearly $40k
14 Sep 2017 Are KiwiSaver members being ripped off?
13 Sep 2017 Irresponsible lending complaints on the rise
13 Sep 2017 No post Unitary Plan subdivision boom
13 Sep 2017 Bill's quality and quantity aims 'a possible conflict'
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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