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September 2008
11 Sep 2008 Strategic halts interest, dividend payments
11 Sep 2008 PAA Roadshow 2008
11 Sep 2008 MPS announcement
11 Sep 2008 Bollard cuts rates more than expected
11 Sep 2008 OCR cut to 7.5%
11 Sep 2008 OCR reduced to 5%
11 Sep 2008 Lombard looking for future
11 Sep 2008 Property Investors Show Resilience in Slump: Survey
11 Sep 2008 OCR reduced to 7.5%
11 Sep 2008 National to look after investors
10 Sep 2008 NZ house sales sink to 26-year low
10 Sep 2008 REINZ residential highlights - August 2008
10 Sep 2008 IFA Roadshow
10 Sep 2008 Insurance & Savings Ombudsman Conference 2008
10 Sep 2008 NZ property investors undeterred, seek new houses
10 Sep 2008 North South not facing receivership
10 Sep 2008 ASFONZ / Women in Super Breakfast
10 Sep 2008 KiwiSaver law changes expensive for employers
10 Sep 2008 Dominion Finance down
10 Sep 2008 Group market owes it to KiwiSaver
10 Sep 2008 Lombard payout cut - again
09 Sep 2008 IFA Roadshow
09 Sep 2008 Market Review: September 2008 London Commentary
09 Sep 2008 Market Review: September 2008 Commentary
09 Sep 2008 New charges laid against Bridgecorp directors
09 Sep 2008 ASFONZ appoints new chair
09 Sep 2008 Adviser legislation enters final stretch
09 Sep 2008 34,000 bonds unclaimed
08 Sep 2008 ASB appoints new MD
08 Sep 2008 NZMBA Regional Days
08 Sep 2008 Bollard expected to cut rates on Thursday
08 Sep 2008 QV residential highlights
08 Sep 2008 News Round Up
08 Sep 2008 Sellers drop house prices for buyers
05 Sep 2008 Heat rising in housing policy
05 Sep 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
05 Sep 2008 Weekly Wrap: King takes King, but game still on
05 Sep 2008 Real Estate Agents Bill passed
05 Sep 2008 King takes King as IRG seeks mates
05 Sep 2008 Can trustees really police fin coys?
05 Sep 2008 Tower enhances Key Person cover
05 Sep 2008 AIG Life's Young moves on
04 Sep 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
04 Sep 2008 King says Dorchester investment “a disaster”
04 Sep 2008 Surge in central city rental levels
04 Sep 2008 Finance companies must get credit ratings
03 Sep 2008 Auckland house sales fell in August
03 Sep 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
03 Sep 2008 OCR cut will provide new focus
03 Sep 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
03 Sep 2008 Changes to KiwiSaver introduced
03 Sep 2008 GS JB Were adds a manager
02 Sep 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
02 Sep 2008 Property Development & Investment 2008
02 Sep 2008 Strategic deal done
02 Sep 2008 New chief at Pero
02 Sep 2008 New chief at Pero
01 Sep 2008 The National Partnership buys back-office
01 Sep 2008 ASSET: FAB finale - Last moves for advisers
01 Sep 2008 Strategic managers agree terms of $90m buyout
01 Sep 2008 Dominion Finance bad debt provision exceeds $80m
01 Sep 2008 News Round Up
01 Sep 2008 ANZ, BNZ lift profits but lose mortgage market share
01 Sep 2008 September issue – available now
01 Sep 2008 Manawatu: Rural riches
August 2008
29 Aug 2008 Weekly Wrap: ASIC imports for adviser regulation
29 Aug 2008 Dorchester’s deferred payment plan goes to trustees
29 Aug 2008 What drives the property market?
29 Aug 2008 Women in Super industry breakfast
29 Aug 2008 Southern Cross three managers up
29 Aug 2008 Call for clarity over grounds for eviction
29 Aug 2008 Advisers get guarded thumbs up on disclosure
29 Aug 2008 Changing of the guard
29 Aug 2008 Dorchester to take charge on St Laurence stake
29 Aug 2008 AMP improves profit
29 Aug 2008 All predictions tracking downward
28 Aug 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
28 Aug 2008 ASFONZ 2008 National Conference & Super Expo
28 Aug 2008 $1b insulation fund launched
28 Aug 2008 ‘No slow down’ on adviser rules: Dalziel
27 Aug 2008 Kiwibank lifts profits and mortgage market share
27 Aug 2008 Canterbury economy on top
27 Aug 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
27 Aug 2008 Steaming ahead head act
27 Aug 2008 Practice management: Clear your head
27 Aug 2008 MARAC Finance reinvestment rate rises
27 Aug 2008 Web solution for KiwiSaver advice conundrum
27 Aug 2008 TSB's profit up, loan book down
26 Aug 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
26 Aug 2008 MARAC Finance reinvestment rate rises
26 Aug 2008 Inaugural Banking and Financial Services Law
26 Aug 2008 Fishers hook bigger stake in business
25 Aug 2008 South Canterbury profit falls 9.5% but still standing strong
25 Aug 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
25 Aug 2008 International Tax & Transfer Pricing Summit
25 Aug 2008 New Tower BDM
25 Aug 2008 News Round Up
25 Aug 2008 What regulation means for brokers
22 Aug 2008 Battle of boffins and buyers
22 Aug 2008 In force premiums up nearly 10%
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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