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November 2004
01 Nov 2004 Banks get ready for battle
01 Nov 2004 Rate pause helps exporters
01 Nov 2004 News Round Up
October 2004
31 Oct 2004 ASB offers new savings account
29 Oct 2004 St Laurence Mortgages gets B3 rating
29 Oct 2004 Property Talk
29 Oct 2004 Andrew King, Property Coach
29 Oct 2004 New Zealand Property Investors' Federation
29 Oct 2004 BNZIM roadshow
29 Oct 2004 Programme builds for Christchurch
29 Oct 2004 2004 Fund Sector Award Winners
29 Oct 2004 Tower's light shines in awards
29 Oct 2004 Three yearly superannuation reviews recommended
28 Oct 2004 BNZIM roadshow
28 Oct 2004 Wizard and AMS sold for more than $A400 million
28 Oct 2004 OCR rises but Bollard surprisingly dovish
28 Oct 2004 OCR up to 6.50%
28 Oct 2004 OCR rises but Bollard surprisingly dovish
28 Oct 2004 The great New Zealand savings rort
28 Oct 2004 Double-dipping, gouging and low returns
28 Oct 2004 Beware the fox in the henhouse
28 Oct 2004 Drug houses unlivable
28 Oct 2004 RB says rate hike may be last for some time
28 Oct 2004 Bank mortgage war increases pressure on Bollard
28 Oct 2004 Buffs queue for airfield sections
28 Oct 2004 Bullish property market in Buller
28 Oct 2004 Rates go up and down
28 Oct 2004 Housing boom goes global
28 Oct 2004 BNZ leads mortgage rates battle
28 Oct 2004 Advisers wary of finance companies
28 Oct 2004 Absolute Capital expands team
27 Oct 2004 Advisers express concerns over finance companies
27 Oct 2004 BNZ celebrates 10 year anniversay
27 Oct 2004 BNZIM roadshow
27 Oct 2004 Ten years of success
27 Oct 2004 Financial Planner of the Year Finalists
26 Oct 2004 Chris Barry to leave Sovereign
26 Oct 2004 News Round Up
25 Oct 2004 Rate rise almost a dead cert
25 Oct 2004 If your trust's gathering dust, check it's not an 'alter ego'
25 Oct 2004 Overseas buyers a factor in driving up house prices
25 Oct 2004 Interest rates tipped to rise on Thursday
25 Oct 2004 Fringe benefit tax changes fail to impress
25 Oct 2004 NZ income tax take growth outperforms OECD average
25 Oct 2004 National Property Trust raises more cash
25 Oct 2004 Confusion And Commitment Worries In Mortgages
24 Oct 2004 Property Problems: What to do when a valuation goes wrong
24 Oct 2004 Putting a premium on life
24 Oct 2004 Property problems: House sale involved likely conflict of interest
24 Oct 2004 Slicing up the social welfare cake
24 Oct 2004 Oh dear, you're stuck with it
24 Oct 2004 Chipping away at millstone of debt
24 Oct 2004 Investors looking forward to more happy days
24 Oct 2004 Sir Selwyn facing revolt in the ranks
24 Oct 2004 Investors torpedo Hilton sale
24 Oct 2004 Vic Park plan nearly ready
24 Oct 2004 Kiwis sink deep in debt
24 Oct 2004 Rules may change for boarders
24 Oct 2004 Mortgage interest war heats up
24 Oct 2004 South's average house price soars
24 Oct 2004 Banks' home-loan war raises inflation fears
24 Oct 2004 Kupe boom starts with shortfall in housing
24 Oct 2004 Heat goes out of property market
24 Oct 2004 Public get say on Kerikeri tower block
22 Oct 2004 ASFONZ Introduction to Investing course
22 Oct 2004 Tower risk product launch
22 Oct 2004 An investment to make you feel good
22 Oct 2004 Christchurch gets a Bentley
22 Oct 2004 Hilton offer pulled
21 Oct 2004 ASFONZ Introduction to Investing course
21 Oct 2004 Tower risk product launch
21 Oct 2004 Cullen makes more noises on tax issues
21 Oct 2004 Perpetual appoint senior manager
20 Oct 2004 Tower risk product launch
20 Oct 2004 United Future makes submission
20 Oct 2004 The wait for Tower's new insurance products is over
20 Oct 2004 Confusion abounds on mortgage rates
19 Oct 2004 The mysterious fee case
19 Oct 2004 Cullen's tax comments welcomed
19 Oct 2004 AMP moves portfolios in anticipation of slowdown
19 Oct 2004 Super Fund appoints Sterling Johnston
19 Oct 2004 Tower risk product launch
19 Oct 2004 Median house prices rise in September
19 Oct 2004 Real estate agents cleared of disclosure allegations
19 Oct 2004 Lawyer critical of Real Estate Institute issue with president
19 Oct 2004 Home loan rates cut as market cools
19 Oct 2004 More pain for 'credit boomers'
19 Oct 2004 House prices hit record high but sales slip
19 Oct 2004 Investors remain confident in September quarter: ASB
19 Oct 2004 Heritage order seen as barrier to sale
19 Oct 2004 Retail investors urge caution in debt product investment
19 Oct 2004 Cullen drops tax hint
19 Oct 2004 Taranaki shopping mall changes hands for $32m
19 Oct 2004 Investors' confidence rises with sharemarket
19 Oct 2004 Chapman takes over St Laurence Mortgages
19 Oct 2004 Surprises abound in this year's awards
18 Oct 2004 Adviserlink Investments & Risk Management
18 Oct 2004 Adviserlink Business Financial Services
18 Oct 2004 Tower risk product launch
18 Oct 2004 Investors urged to be cautious about income investments
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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