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September 2016
30 Sep 2016 Home loan growth picks up pace
30 Sep 2016 ANZ fee reduction praised
30 Sep 2016 Building consents flat line
30 Sep 2016 Harmoney launches automated service
30 Sep 2016 How come people buy houses when they are so expensive?
30 Sep 2016 The “Affordability” of Unaffordable Homes
30 Sep 2016 Another banker joins FMA board
30 Sep 2016 FPH trading under trial spotlight
30 Sep 2016 KiwiSaver providers consider private investments
29 Sep 2016 Hansa potentially another Ponzi
29 Sep 2016 One and two year fixed rates preferred
29 Sep 2016 OnePath downgraded
29 Sep 2016 Partners reinstates up-front commission on health insurance
29 Sep 2016 Zoning appeal to impact on development
29 Sep 2016 Getting clarity on market manipulation
29 Sep 2016 SHARE adds advisers
29 Sep 2016 Booster KiwiSaver passable, Morningstar says
29 Sep 2016 Investors carry loans for longer
28 Sep 2016 New numbers on real estate activity
28 Sep 2016 Advisers a small number of IFSO complaints
28 Sep 2016 Fees in dollar terms? Easier said than done
28 Sep 2016 Trades get all-clear from 'world leader'
28 Sep 2016 Incomes key to stability of price rises: ANZ
28 Sep 2016 Kiwis still planning to buy, expect to pay more
27 Sep 2016 Carr steps down as RBNZ chair
27 Sep 2016 New additions to Camelot team
27 Sep 2016 Significant disclosure 'still lacking'
26 Sep 2016 Fight won't go to court
26 Sep 2016 Steep decline in investor lending
26 Sep 2016 Warminger faces $1m penalty per trade
26 Sep 2016 Central banks not ready to throw in the towel
26 Sep 2016 All quiet on the rates front; Enjoy the low rates
26 Sep 2016 Concern non-underwritten products not well explained
26 Sep 2016 Commission ban 'errant nonsense'
26 Sep 2016 Westpac keeping eye on Australian sales incentive change
25 Sep 2016 Invitation to IML’s new Listed Investment Company (QV Income) pre IPO briefing
23 Sep 2016 Are things you never use worth buying?
23 Sep 2016 Investors look to commercial market
23 Sep 2016 Resimac tightens rules for investors
23 Sep 2016 Why get into commercial?
23 Sep 2016 All systems go for NZ economy
23 Sep 2016 Dormant products drive replacement business: Adviser
22 Sep 2016 Harmoney offers bigger loans
22 Sep 2016 Slower consent process for Aucklanders
22 Sep 2016 OCR call sticks to the script
22 Sep 2016 What the Reserve Bank said today
22 Sep 2016 OCR remains the same; Here's what Wheeler said today
22 Sep 2016 FMCA a big blow for workplace super
22 Sep 2016 Robo an opportunity
22 Sep 2016 OCR call sticks to the script
21 Sep 2016 Top five rental hot spots
21 Sep 2016 Volatility hits NZ Super Fund
21 Sep 2016 Volatility hits NZ Super Fund
21 Sep 2016 Craigs schemes get rebrand
21 Sep 2016 Elevated migration the trend - for now
20 Sep 2016 Squirrel looking for more opportunities
20 Sep 2016 Ethics can't be left to rules: Report
20 Sep 2016 NZ’s rental growth hotspots
20 Sep 2016 Appeals could hold up Unitary Plan
20 Sep 2016 Milford: Warminger's decision to fight FMA a personal one
20 Sep 2016 Aussie property fund open to NZ
20 Sep 2016 Lifetime joins AMP network
19 Sep 2016 Appeals could delay Plan
19 Sep 2016 Work to change fee disclosure
19 Sep 2016 Hawes and Forsyth Barr launch 'Summer' KiwiSaver
19 Sep 2016 Grosvenor goes: Booster arrives
19 Sep 2016 OCR predictions: What the experts are tipping
19 Sep 2016 Fidelity appoints directors
19 Sep 2016 Fed increase 'would alarm'
19 Sep 2016 Information returns due
19 Sep 2016 ASB watching robotics development
16 Sep 2016 Aucklander banned from financial services
16 Sep 2016 OCR cut not on the cards - yet
16 Sep 2016 In case you missed it
16 Sep 2016 Dream team: 120 properties in 12 years
16 Sep 2016 Advisers not sitting on gold mines
16 Sep 2016 Strong retail demand for ETFs
15 Sep 2016 Vanguard open to KiwiSaver request
15 Sep 2016 Solid GDP means OCR cut on hold
15 Sep 2016 Rental damage law change needed
15 Sep 2016 Kiwibank terms agreed
15 Sep 2016 Severe lack of supply pushing house prices
15 Sep 2016 Southern Cross records $35m surplus
15 Sep 2016 Plan for the worst
15 Sep 2016 Infrastructure fund open to Kiwis
14 Sep 2016 Themed ETFs launched
14 Sep 2016 Themed ETFs launched
14 Sep 2016 Simplicity open for business
14 Sep 2016 Apartment appeal on the rise
14 Sep 2016 Holm joins FSCL board
14 Sep 2016 Lack of young advisers may leave businesses floundering
14 Sep 2016 What's good advice from an RFA?
14 Sep 2016 Limited supply biggest market driver
13 Sep 2016 Accuro Health Insurance streamlines claiming process
13 Sep 2016 Increased protection from AA Insurance change
13 Sep 2016 Rising prices shift apartment perceptions
13 Sep 2016 Impact of RBNZ's latest restrictions about to be revealed
13 Sep 2016 Increased protection from AA Insurance change
13 Sep 2016 Partners increases medical policy price
13 Sep 2016 Wait for FAA information
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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