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September 2017
12 Sep 2017 Gareth Morgan disappears
12 Sep 2017 OMG cash is back
12 Sep 2017 New disclosure requirement could backfire
12 Sep 2017 NZ slips in global price rankings
11 Sep 2017 Mercer appoints CIO
11 Sep 2017 nib launches AI solution
11 Sep 2017 Newest adviser to join Mortgage Express
11 Sep 2017 Top fund managers recognised
11 Sep 2017 Why responsible investing counts
11 Sep 2017 To CGT or not to CGT?
11 Sep 2017 Top fund managers recognised
11 Sep 2017 Tipping point for responsible investing
11 Sep 2017 Insurance cover and suicide rates
11 Sep 2017 HomeStart boost could drive prices up
11 Sep 2017 A rise against the falls
11 Sep 2017 23 year old duo turn over $30m
11 Sep 2017 New Zealand's advice problem
11 Sep 2017 Good Returns' columnist takes out top award
09 Sep 2017 GRTV Ep4: How top fund managers are picked; the growing importance of Responsible Investing
08 Sep 2017 Apartment under supply looming
08 Sep 2017 Bath sues over failed Perpetual Guardian sale
08 Sep 2017 No winners from tenancy law tinkering
08 Sep 2017 Getting to Know: Liz Koh
08 Sep 2017 Responsible investing: Is there a cost?
07 Sep 2017 Dramatic change in price expectations
07 Sep 2017 Pie Funds reveals manager change
07 Sep 2017 Dramatic change in price expectations
07 Sep 2017 Accuro: Early days but happy with online response
07 Sep 2017 Funds not 'true to label': Researcher
07 Sep 2017 New tool means better property valuations
06 Sep 2017 Landlords key to solving crisis
06 Sep 2017 New property listings plummet
06 Sep 2017 $5.4m Ponzi admitted
06 Sep 2017 Ex BNZ worker admits mortgage fraud
06 Sep 2017 Caution leads to fall in listings
06 Sep 2017 Warning for would-be providers
06 Sep 2017 Sovereign launches ACC add-on
05 Sep 2017 Public Trust axes term deposits
05 Sep 2017 Boost first home buyer opportunities
05 Sep 2017 Cameron Marcroft talks about becoming a top adviser
05 Sep 2017 Subdued signs of life
05 Sep 2017 Goals-based investing: a different way of thinking
05 Sep 2017 Advice key part of KiwiSaver success: ANZ
04 Sep 2017 RMA by-pass to encourage development
04 Sep 2017 Funding a problem for peer-to-peer
04 Sep 2017 Tribunal refund decision anti-landlord
04 Sep 2017 MPM takes former franchisee to court
04 Sep 2017 New norm for two-year Specials
04 Sep 2017 Labour plans could force out landlords
04 Sep 2017 We’ve launched nib First Choice network
04 Sep 2017 Meth cover demystified
03 Sep 2017 Big cake for small market share
03 Sep 2017 Asteron starts review after fraud
03 Sep 2017 Consilium offers philanthropic solution
01 Sep 2017 Court win in Auckland leaky home suit
01 Sep 2017 Resignation at Heathcote
01 Sep 2017 Kiwibank's IT work-in-progress proves costly
01 Sep 2017 Getting to Know: Dean Anderson
01 Sep 2017 ASB narrows gap between carded and Special rates
01 Sep 2017 Values fall as investors leave market
01 Sep 2017 Trustee company turns to private equity
01 Sep 2017 Hobson Wealth expands
01 Sep 2017 Advisers may misrepresent premiums
01 Sep 2017 FMA: No regrets about $1.7m bill
August 2017
31 Aug 2017 New chance to join leaky building lawsuit
31 Aug 2017 Be careful what you ask for
31 Aug 2017 Roll out renters’ education course - NZPIF
30 Aug 2017 Fund Source surprises with awards
30 Aug 2017 Slowdown in value growth spreading
30 Aug 2017 Avanti's new business reaches out to SMEs
30 Aug 2017 LVRs still needed - RBNZ
30 Aug 2017 Falling consents mean shortage not addressed
30 Aug 2017 Boost for fixed interest fund
30 Aug 2017 Insurance pain for landlords ahead
30 Aug 2017 KiwiSaver members don't understand MTC
30 Aug 2017 FMA outlines plans - has eyes on advisers
29 Aug 2017 Council urged to pause on making WOF compulsory
29 Aug 2017 FMA wins settlement for finance company investors
29 Aug 2017 Rents rise in Wellington - & Christchurch
29 Aug 2017 Under-active RFAs may drop out
28 Aug 2017 Commitment to help advisers with new regs - NZFSG
28 Aug 2017 Quantitative investment styles, and when they perform
28 Aug 2017 Nagging and the definition of ‘financial advice’
28 Aug 2017 Two-year cut labelled pre-Election Special
28 Aug 2017 Affordability growing in West Auckland
28 Aug 2017 Sharesies ponders advice offer
28 Aug 2017 AIA expands cancer benefit reach
27 Aug 2017 Trade Me: We still back LifeDirect
25 Aug 2017 Commission files Harmoney proceedings
25 Aug 2017 Softer market better time to buy
25 Aug 2017 Getting to Know: Reagan Bax
25 Aug 2017 Adviser wants 'gold standard' for industry
25 Aug 2017 Newpark considers being a licensed dealer group
25 Aug 2017 Investor lending exodus
25 Aug 2017 House price expectations plummet
24 Aug 2017 NZX's Apertyx yet to take full flight
24 Aug 2017 Newpark stacks its board with well-known people
24 Aug 2017 Human rights body slams tenant damage changes
23 Aug 2017 No fine for QROPS adviser who breached code
23 Aug 2017 Expect negative impact from regulation overload
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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