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September 2012
26 Sep 2012 One brand but no difference says ANZ boss
26 Sep 2012 S&P lowers Asian GDP growth forecasts
26 Sep 2012 Out go the BDMs
26 Sep 2012 Another little cut
26 Sep 2012 Mortgagee sales most likely in Auckland: Crockers
25 Sep 2012 Pinnacle seeks new heights with capital raising
25 Sep 2012 The FMA on the CPD debate
25 Sep 2012 The first Spring home loan campaign
25 Sep 2012 Jones' settlement goes in ex-wife's favour
25 Sep 2012 Reserves declared for commercial auction
25 Sep 2012 Time to clean up this watery mess
24 Sep 2012 HSBC kicks off Spring lending campaign
24 Sep 2012 Special events options are an underused tool
24 Sep 2012 News Round Up: September 24
24 Sep 2012 Is the home loan battle moving to a new space?
24 Sep 2012 Prices acquire extra importance
24 Sep 2012 Banks eye long-term customers
21 Sep 2012 Super Fund Guardians gets a new chair
21 Sep 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Maybe shares have better tax treatment than property?
21 Sep 2012 Is the home loan battle moving?
21 Sep 2012 RBNZ targets house prices
21 Sep 2012 Fidelity and AIA poised to go app to the future
21 Sep 2012 RBNZ targets house prices
21 Sep 2012 Borrowers spoilt for choice
21 Sep 2012 AMP research partners under review
21 Sep 2012 Interest rates drive investors into property: Alexander
21 Sep 2012 Auckland 'still affordable'
20 Sep 2012 Strength of Kiwibank’s insurance business revealed
20 Sep 2012 Heartland profit forecast downgraded, but future positive
20 Sep 2012 Trans-Tasman pension transfers gets closer
20 Sep 2012 Trade Me analysis shows quakes' impact
20 Sep 2012 Water is landlords' responsibility: APIA
19 Sep 2012 Rating agency warns about Credit Union North
19 Sep 2012 Australasian shares more tax efficient than cash
19 Sep 2012 Rates down
19 Sep 2012 Auckland's Hilton hotel sells
19 Sep 2012 Don't rush to no-reserve auctions: Helm
18 Sep 2012 Gareth Morgan Investments expands its investment strategy team
18 Sep 2012 Aussie heavyweight calls for KiwiSaver compulsion
18 Sep 2012 ANZ: No OCR increase until 2014
18 Sep 2012 Housing bubble warning
17 Sep 2012 Rates round-up: September 17
17 Sep 2012 NZ tipped to follow Aussie FATCA move
17 Sep 2012 ANZ National cut rates
17 Sep 2012 Salespeople return to industry
14 Sep 2012 [Weekly Wrap] Back to the drawing board
14 Sep 2012 Southern Cross funds more elective surgery
14 Sep 2012 Harbour commentary: Few surprises in Earnings Season
14 Sep 2012 Hattersley heads north
14 Sep 2012 Reputation, innovation and underwriting key to securing life business
14 Sep 2012 Predictions for the OCR
14 Sep 2012 Regulation is an adviser’s friend
14 Sep 2012 Shares manifesto 'misleading'
14 Sep 2012 Property investment not always the solution: Alexander
13 Sep 2012 F&P Finance rating bolstered by takeover
13 Sep 2012 Chairman goes as Tower considers offers
13 Sep 2012 OCR to stay flat for at least a year
13 Sep 2012 OCR unchanged; rate increases subdued
13 Sep 2012 Advisers told to get more involved
13 Sep 2012 ASB's home loan book shrinks - again
13 Sep 2012 RBNZ leaves cash rate unchanged; Cost of mortgages historically low
13 Sep 2012 Lifestyle property market steady
13 Sep 2012 Investors, first-home buyers active: Survey
13 Sep 2012 OCR stays at 2.5%
12 Sep 2012 All quiet
12 Sep 2012 Adviser prospecting restrictions loosened
12 Sep 2012 Heat pump subsidy scrapped
12 Sep 2012 Recession a growth opportunity for property consultants
11 Sep 2012 ISO Case Studies - August 2012
11 Sep 2012 IFA surprised by low Money Week turnout
11 Sep 2012 Westpac's cut and tuck
11 Sep 2012 Steady price rise, QV reports
11 Sep 2012 QV: Regional breakdown
11 Sep 2012 Federation's survey challenges insulation claims
11 Sep 2012 Regulation for property managers is overdue
11 Sep 2012 Petition calls for property management regulation
10 Sep 2012 New director for FSCL
10 Sep 2012 FMA beats Perpetual court challenge
10 Sep 2012 Rates round-up: September 10
10 Sep 2012 Opportunity for advisers in self-managed funds
10 Sep 2012 Bollard's swansong: Low interest rates
10 Sep 2012 Bollard's swansong low interest rates
10 Sep 2012 It's all about the claim - apart from when it's all about not claiming
10 Sep 2012 Brook Report: Build on solid foundations
10 Sep 2012 Sales up but market still subdued: REINZ
10 Sep 2012 Christchurch rents to skyrocket
07 Sep 2012 Inflation-linked bonds “risk-free”
07 Sep 2012 [Weekly wrap] Botherway's mission complete
07 Sep 2012 Cigna's direct sales a winner
07 Sep 2012 Accuro gets its first rating
07 Sep 2012 Advisers overdoing the paperwork
07 Sep 2012 Rate and house price updates
07 Sep 2012 Block houses might have got better prices sold separately: Newland
07 Sep 2012 Property finders nothing new: Newland
07 Sep 2012 Consider shares, property investors told
06 Sep 2012 Tower's Medical business marked
06 Sep 2012 Botherway departs ANZ Wealth
06 Sep 2012 Govt sees no SOE advice shortage
06 Sep 2012 Mike Pero changes hands
06 Sep 2012 Warrants of fitness not the solution: NZPIF
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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