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October 2020
23 Oct 2020 Weak inflation means negative OCR: Kiwibank
23 Oct 2020 Westpac one year rate cut; The $50bn programme that will push down rates
23 Oct 2020 The $50 billion idea that will push down home loan rates
23 Oct 2020 Education for landlords by landlords
23 Oct 2020 FMA: Dangers of economic uncertainty in a post-covid world
23 Oct 2020 a2 Milk – growth stocks and downgrades don’t mix well
23 Oct 2020 ANZ re-appoints Penny Burgess as broker boss
22 Oct 2020 Shares decline as global headwinds endure
22 Oct 2020 Financial wellbeing confidence dented by Covid-19 — Cigna study
22 Oct 2020 High LVR investor loans up 134%; LVR limits to return?
22 Oct 2020 COMMENT: Dunedin’s slowdown might last
22 Oct 2020 Westpac dropping adviser wing to Forsyth Barr
21 Oct 2020 It's time sharebrokers had uniform fee disclosure
21 Oct 2020 Stimulus hopes push kiwi up, but shares fall
21 Oct 2020 High LVR investor lending up 134%
21 Oct 2020 What lies ahead for investors
21 Oct 2020 LVR limits could return: RBNZ
21 Oct 2020 The Co-operative Bank launches 2.25% offer; BNZ 6 and 18 month changes
21 Oct 2020 AMP KiwiSaver members should expect major fee reduction
20 Oct 2020 Kiwi dollar hits three month high against Aussie
20 Oct 2020 2.25% one year rate from the Co-op
20 Oct 2020 AMP change KiwiSaver from active to passive
20 Oct 2020 COMMENT: Is a post-election market surge likely?
20 Oct 2020 Negative OCR still needed: Westpac
20 Oct 2020 Negative OCR still needed - Westpac
19 Oct 2020 Markets unrattled by election, electricity sector falls
19 Oct 2020 Avanti hires credit specialist
19 Oct 2020 Negative official cash rate still needed: Westpac
19 Oct 2020 High LVR loans: what does the data say?
19 Oct 2020 High LVR lending: what does the data say?
19 Oct 2020 Hunter: KiwiSaver funds in global shares liable for tax slippage
18 Oct 2020 Going beyond the returns: embracing fintech to deepen human connections
18 Oct 2020 Election, recovery and vaccine uncertainty
16 Oct 2020 Power rally pauses ahead of election
16 Oct 2020 Something’s gotta give on prices
16 Oct 2020 LVR limits will return for investors
16 Oct 2020 LVR limits tipped to return for investors next year; ASB 18 month rate cut
16 Oct 2020 [FSC Conference] The rise of the machines; Robo like a toddler
16 Oct 2020 FSC finds New Zealanders’ financial resilience shines through tough times
16 Oct 2020 LVR limits will return for investors: Alexander
15 Oct 2020 Equity rally stalls as caution returns
15 Oct 2020 Asteron (and Suncorp) appoints new boss
15 Oct 2020 Tough conditions for the self-employed
15 Oct 2020 COMMENT: Property investment tax advantages
15 Oct 2020 [FSC Conference] We need to talk about retirement; National MP calls for compulsory super
15 Oct 2020 Full licence provisions to be released by mid-November
14 Oct 2020 Mainfreight leads shares higher
14 Oct 2020 Tough conditions for self-employed borrowers
14 Oct 2020 New board members announced at Financial Advice NZ
14 Oct 2020 What do clients think of their advisers?; Why house prices will keep rising
14 Oct 2020 Market correction? Don’t hold your breath.
14 Oct 2020 South Canterbury Finance final rites
14 Oct 2020 Trusted Adviser mark finally launched
14 Oct 2020 [FSC Conference] Robertson v Goldsmith; Fixing income protection; RBNZ update
14 Oct 2020 What do clients think of mortgage advisers?
13 Oct 2020 NZ shares rise for tenth session
13 Oct 2020 CPA announce finalists for Integrated Reporting Awards
13 Oct 2020 Avanti's Winterbottom promoted-
13 Oct 2020 Sales, prices skyrocket in defiant market
13 Oct 2020 Income protection: Lessons from over the ditch
13 Oct 2020 Why Heartland launched a sub 2% rate — the lowest ever in NZ
13 Oct 2020 FMT hires new BDM
13 Oct 2020 InvestNow launch KiwiSaver scheme
13 Oct 2020 Licensing insurance for financial advisers
12 Oct 2020 Contact leads shares higher
12 Oct 2020 Q&A: Why Heartland launched a sub-2% rate
12 Oct 2020 Heartland launches market-leading 1.99% mortgage
12 Oct 2020 [GRTV] Financial advice transformed my life: Shanks
12 Oct 2020 [GRTV] The winners and losers from Covid-19
12 Oct 2020 [GRTV] Depressing imbalances in IP market: Hutchinson
12 Oct 2020 Investment in Auckland’s CBD will survive
12 Oct 2020 Concerns over NZFSG-Kepa deal; SBS Bank rate cuts
12 Oct 2020 Concerns over NZFSG-Kepa deal
10 Oct 2020 [GRTV] Financial advice transformed my life: Shanks
09 Oct 2020 Hot property market drives shares higher
09 Oct 2020 Wealthpoint creates new head of investments role
09 Oct 2020 Changes at Avanti
09 Oct 2020 Are banks more flexible on high LVR?; Four ways low rates have boosted the market
09 Oct 2020 Four ways low rates have boosted the market
09 Oct 2020 COMMENT: Accessing commercial property assets
09 Oct 2020 Super Fund gains through carbon reduction
08 Oct 2020 NZ shares surge as Trump puts stimulus back on table
08 Oct 2020 Are banks treating high LVR customers any differently?
08 Oct 2020 No sign of investor exodus
08 Oct 2020 Heretaunga Building Society rate cuts
08 Oct 2020 KiwiSaver supermarkets – real competition for corner dairy schemes
08 Oct 2020 Milestone offers ‘Investment Development Day’ for IFA advisers
07 Oct 2020 Kiwi falls as Trump spikes stimulus deal
07 Oct 2020 Hunters v gathers in the new world
07 Oct 2020 Mike Pero hires in Auckland and Christchurch; Are returning Kiwis driving market?
07 Oct 2020 Mike Pero Mortgages bolsters Auckland and Christchurch teams
07 Oct 2020 FMA tells online investors to do their homework
06 Oct 2020 Travel stocks lead stock market higher
06 Oct 2020 How Global Finance plans to help clients after Covid
06 Oct 2020 Are returning Kiwis really a market driver?
06 Oct 2020 Small business boost; National plans landlord changes
06 Oct 2020 [GRTV] The winners and losers from Covid-19
06 Oct 2020 The power of social media
05 Oct 2020 NZ shares rise with Aussie market
05 Oct 2020 Tenancy reforms, tax changes would go under National
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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