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August 2006
30 Aug 2006 Dunne's email
30 Aug 2006 Dunne blames UK trusts for opposition
30 Aug 2006 Wellington: Fault free
30 Aug 2006 Waiting for the next home loan rate war
29 Aug 2006 ASFONZ, Women in Super & Tyndall Industry Breakfast
29 Aug 2006 Sky to offer 10-year bonds
29 Aug 2006 New tax start dates unfair
29 Aug 2006 Market share slips for two banks
28 Aug 2006 Money Managers to develop franchises
28 Aug 2006 News Round Up
28 Aug 2006 Deposit Rates News Briefs
25 Aug 2006 Mixed reaction to KiwiSaver changes
25 Aug 2006 Government moves to make KiwiSaver more palatable
25 Aug 2006 Finance company disclosure improving
24 Aug 2006 Tower names NZ ceo
24 Aug 2006 What's going on with all the delays
24 Aug 2006 Government moves to make KiwiSaver more palatable
24 Aug 2006 Pushing mortgages to the limit
23 Aug 2006 propertyfinance securities appointments
23 Aug 2006 Rapid Ratings returns
23 Aug 2006 Rapid Ratings returns
23 Aug 2006 Simes $70 million property portfolio on market
22 Aug 2006 KiwiSaver report addresses financial advice
22 Aug 2006 Look to lock in rates
22 Aug 2006 KiwiSaver report addresses financial advice
22 Aug 2006 Virtual real estate captures new generation of property buyers
22 Aug 2006 Property Council accuses local bodies of unconstitutional scams
21 Aug 2006 News Round Up
21 Aug 2006 St Laurence makes major restructure
21 Aug 2006 Coming Soon! An Insider's Guide to Real Estate Hot Spots
21 Aug 2006 Look to lock in rates
20 Aug 2006 Affordability study findings due this week
20 Aug 2006 Councils offer homeowners free eco-design advice
18 Aug 2006 Sovereign records growth in life business
18 Aug 2006 Deposit rates news briefs
18 Aug 2006 Ngai Tahu's iwi saver scheme starts
18 Aug 2006 Life insurance included in tax review
17 Aug 2006 PIS professional development day
17 Aug 2006 Hanover appoints new CEO
17 Aug 2006 Advisers ask for raincheck on regulation
16 Aug 2006 PIS professional development day
16 Aug 2006 A warning, a brickbat and some free advice
16 Aug 2006 Investors will pay more tax under proposal: Newton
16 Aug 2006 A less aggressive approach to lending
15 Aug 2006 PIS professional development day
15 Aug 2006 A warning, a brickbat and some free advice
14 Aug 2006 Finance companies – Does risk equal return?
14 Aug 2006 PIS professional development day
14 Aug 2006 Welcome home loan scheme extended
14 Aug 2006 News Round Up
14 Aug 2006 Top analyst joins Fisher Funds
11 Aug 2006 ASSET Magazine - August
11 Aug 2006 PIS professional development day
11 Aug 2006 Poll shows people don't like tax changes
10 Aug 2006 PIS professional development day
10 Aug 2006 FNZC earns over $100m for UK wrap
10 Aug 2006 Impact of removal of trail commissions 3yrs away
10 Aug 2006 REINZ slams Damage Insurance Bill
10 Aug 2006 Greens propose capital gains tax
10 Aug 2006 Pre-purchase house inspections substandard
10 Aug 2006 Property cycle indicator reveals market downturn
09 Aug 2006 Policyholders don't know what they are covered for
09 Aug 2006 ‘Let’s Talk KiwiSaver’ – Inland Revenue August forum
09 Aug 2006 Who gets the Tower jobs
08 Aug 2006 Some pain needed to get savings going
08 Aug 2006 Rates start easing
08 Aug 2006 AXA group ceo steps down
07 Aug 2006 Finance company rates about right
07 Aug 2006 News Round Up
07 Aug 2006 Rates start easing
06 Aug 2006 GE Money looks to do more broker business
06 Aug 2006 Bad name not deserved
04 Aug 2006 Deposit rate news briefs
04 Aug 2006 Govt reconsiders tax on life insurance
04 Aug 2006 Equitable's new SI BDM
04 Aug 2006 Review release dates put back
03 Aug 2006 NZX SciTech Index Seminar
03 Aug 2006 A bold prediction
03 Aug 2006 Mountain of submissions on tax bill
03 Aug 2006 Govt admits it's seriously looked at compulsory super
02 Aug 2006 AMP Capital's new head of strategy announced
02 Aug 2006 Market review: At the crossroads
02 Aug 2006 Welcome mat for home buyers to be extended
02 Aug 2006 New set of tax issues raised
01 Aug 2006 Macquarie looks for diversity with Commodity Bonds
01 Aug 2006 NZX SciTech Index Seminar
01 Aug 2006 Finance company rates about right
01 Aug 2006 Treasury releases housing investment survey
01 Aug 2006 Dunedin commercial property takeover
July 2006
31 Jul 2006 Solid metal fixed interest alternative
31 Jul 2006 Managed funds have first positive quarter in years
31 Jul 2006 News Round Up
31 Jul 2006 NZMBA president expands his business
28 Jul 2006 AIA slashes term life rates
28 Jul 2006 Interesting reaction to departure
28 Jul 2006 Northplan moves into the South Island
27 Jul 2006 Health insurance coverage rises, claims paid jump
27 Jul 2006 OCR announcement
27 Jul 2006 Bollard leaves rates unchanged
27 Jul 2006 No change to OCR
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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