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August 2014
18 Aug 2014 [MRadio] A refi tale
18 Aug 2014 Making a claim? Prove it
18 Aug 2014 Tackle housing issues without pushing up rents: NZPIF
15 Aug 2014 Sovereign posts solid result
15 Aug 2014 [Weekly Wrap] A week of surprises
15 Aug 2014 Calling all property investors
15 Aug 2014 Shadow shares hit bottom line
15 Aug 2014 Sentiment falls to seven-year low
14 Aug 2014 New lending options coming
14 Aug 2014 KiwiSaver fees under the spotlight
14 Aug 2014 Advisers to do AML due diligence for fund managers
14 Aug 2014 Partners not concerned by loss
14 Aug 2014 Prices will keep rising: Alexander
13 Aug 2014 Another record profit for a bank
13 Aug 2014 Another record profit for a bank
13 Aug 2014 Bank KiwiSaver selling practices back on FMA radar
13 Aug 2014 'Good time to be commercial landlord'
12 Aug 2014 Westpac CEO resigns
12 Aug 2014 Strategic Finance investors about to get first payout
12 Aug 2014 BNZ follows suit: ASB changes OCR forecast
12 Aug 2014 Next OCR hike not till March: ASB
12 Aug 2014 Financial advisers not up to scratch yet: FMA
12 Aug 2014 Auckland, Canterbury driving prices: REINZ
11 Aug 2014 A finely balanced RBNZ decision
11 Aug 2014 Westpac cuts and lowers
11 Aug 2014 Tax campaign called 'self-serving'
11 Aug 2014 Migration impact appears limited
08 Aug 2014 [Weekly Wrap] A couple of bloopers this week
08 Aug 2014 The costs of being an AFA
08 Aug 2014 Westpac brings back trail commissions
08 Aug 2014 Property spending revealed
07 Aug 2014 Westpac brings back trail commissions
07 Aug 2014 van Eyk suspends fund redemptions
07 Aug 2014 It didn't take long
07 Aug 2014 Price rises ease: QV
06 Aug 2014 Lifetime expands
06 Aug 2014 World equity markets – bubble territory?
06 Aug 2014 Statement of investor rights
06 Aug 2014 Catch me if you can
06 Aug 2014 ANZ tackles portability problems
06 Aug 2014 Rates rises biggest rent driver
05 Aug 2014 [MRadio] Two-year the new hot rate
05 Aug 2014 The devil is in the detail
05 Aug 2014 BNZ joins in
05 Aug 2014 Size helps advisers
05 Aug 2014 Stats indicate sagging market: Economist
04 Aug 2014 New two-year special
04 Aug 2014 Month-on-month price drop
04 Aug 2014 Property investors easy target: APIA
01 Aug 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Why the financial advice world is great
01 Aug 2014 Financial advice firm gets diversified
01 Aug 2014 Realestate.co.nz hits out at Trade Me fee cut
01 Aug 2014 First-home buyers 'shouldn't hold out for dropping prices'
July 2014
31 Jul 2014 [Obituary] Peter Hensley
31 Jul 2014 Campaign to reduce savings tax
31 Jul 2014 First crowd funding licences issued
31 Jul 2014 Today it's the turn of the smaller banks and lenders
31 Jul 2014 Partners: No threat to advisers
31 Jul 2014 Concern at conservative fees
31 Jul 2014 Tenants not disadvantaged: APIA
30 Jul 2014 Direct service 'not a move away from IFAs'
30 Jul 2014 Plus4 adds adviser in Chch
30 Jul 2014 Kiwibank and AMP next movers
30 Jul 2014 Govt hails consent figures
30 Jul 2014 Trade Me offers monthly fee
29 Jul 2014 Westpac does a 35 basis point hike
29 Jul 2014 Van Eyk Advice eyes expansion
29 Jul 2014 Delay causes concern
28 Jul 2014 So little TPD, for tiny sums
28 Jul 2014 Fisher nets Marlin performance fee
28 Jul 2014 BNZ up; Westpac special
28 Jul 2014 Regulatory issues identified
28 Jul 2014 Banks call for low-deposit applications
25 Jul 2014 [Weekly Wrap] The consequences of giving bad financial advice
25 Jul 2014 Salt hires equity analyst
25 Jul 2014 Interest rates could fall during the OCR pause
25 Jul 2014 ANZ up first as usual; ASB second
25 Jul 2014 Stop selling product and start advising, FMA warns
25 Jul 2014 Bennett: Tell us about annoying red tape
24 Jul 2014 Entrepreneurs in our ranks
24 Jul 2014 What the Reserve Bank said about interest rates
24 Jul 2014 Cash rate rises; ANZ moves immediately
24 Jul 2014 Advisers should regulate themselves: Stubbs
23 Jul 2014 Advisers encouraged to take ethics courses
23 Jul 2014 Local factors driving yields: Report
23 Jul 2014 Market on tenterhooks: ANZ
22 Jul 2014 RBNZ speech
22 Jul 2014 Former adviser ordered to pay client $2.56mill
22 Jul 2014 Landlord to pay $5000 over tenant death
22 Jul 2014 Net immigration could hit 50,000: Report
21 Jul 2014 [MRadio] OCR preview and more on cash contributions
21 Jul 2014 Targets go; broker jailed
21 Jul 2014 Support for guarantee proposal
21 Jul 2014 Record price for Auckland lifestyle blocks
20 Jul 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Has the FMA over-stepped the mark?
18 Jul 2014 Rate hike on, but not a done deal
18 Jul 2014 Buddle sentenced
18 Jul 2014 HSBC dumps sales targets
18 Jul 2014 Hike coming, but what next?
18 Jul 2014 Newpark makes another senior appointment
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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