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October 2019
09 Oct 2019 Trade concerns weigh on market; Fonterra recovery pauses
09 Oct 2019 Green light for property investment crowdfunding
09 Oct 2019 Co-Op rate cuts; Servicing test changes limited
09 Oct 2019 Servicing test changes limited
09 Oct 2019 Code Committee: We've thought about what could have been better
08 Oct 2019 NZ shares join Asian rally on optimism over trade talks
08 Oct 2019 Advisers welcome new lender; Another big OCR cut?
08 Oct 2019 Advisers welcome new mortgage entrant
08 Oct 2019 What to do, what to do …
08 Oct 2019 KiwiSaver members want online research, not advice; New player says
08 Oct 2019 KiwiSaver members want online research, not advice; New player says
07 Oct 2019 NZ shares rise in quiet trading as Fonterra hits 4-month high
07 Oct 2019 COMMENT: Getting to grips with tenancy disputes
07 Oct 2019 ASB: OCR will fall to 0.5%
07 Oct 2019 Reverse mortgages take off in NZ; Avanti rate cuts
07 Oct 2019 Generate launches first non-KiwiSaver Fund
07 Oct 2019 Generate beefs up investment team
05 Oct 2019 Fidelity hits $1 billion milestone
04 Oct 2019 Quotemonster responds to new adviser regime
04 Oct 2019 FE Investments gets ratings boost on capital raise
04 Oct 2019 TE adds three
04 Oct 2019 Market rebounds; Kathmandu rises after bookbuild
04 Oct 2019 Heartland hails reverse mortgage growth
04 Oct 2019 [The Wrap] Royal commission? No. But there's still questions to ask
04 Oct 2019 Airbnb room rental not bylaw violation
04 Oct 2019 New Avanti BDM, Spring bounce in Auckland?
04 Oct 2019 Avanti latest to cut rates
03 Oct 2019 Kloogh liquidators trawling files back to 2012
03 Oct 2019 Milford award 'a win for active management'
03 Oct 2019 Asteron offers to guide advisers through change
03 Oct 2019 NZ shares fall on growth fears, trade war expansion
03 Oct 2019 Simplicity enters mortgage market with 2.95% rate
03 Oct 2019 To FAP or not to FAP, that is the question
03 Oct 2019 New fund awards to launch
03 Oct 2019 Fintech world changing, conference founder says
03 Oct 2019 Simplicity declares war with 2.95% mortgage
02 Oct 2019 NZ shares fell on concerns about stalling global growth
02 Oct 2019 FundSource's former qual man returns with new service
02 Oct 2019 Spring bounce in Auckland market
02 Oct 2019 Insurers won't be responsible for advisers 'at this point in time'
02 Oct 2019 New BDM at Avanti
02 Oct 2019 FMA adds to leadership team
02 Oct 2019 Ex-Mortgage Link team branches out; Resimac rate cuts
02 Oct 2019 Signs of life in market
02 Oct 2019 Ex-Mortgage Link team branches out
02 Oct 2019 Low rates prompting shift: FMA
01 Oct 2019 The Adviser Platform offers general insurance add-on
01 Oct 2019 Investor demand continues for yield stocks
01 Oct 2019 Kiwibank predicts 0.5% OCR cut
01 Oct 2019 Resimac cuts rates and lowers servicing test
01 Oct 2019 Experts support capital review: RBNZ
01 Oct 2019 ANZ rate cut; new look Southern Cross team
01 Oct 2019 New listings remain limited
01 Oct 2019 Finally, a breath that suggests it's not all about the advisers and their advice
01 Oct 2019 COMMENT: Let the buyer beware! But what about the seller?
01 Oct 2019 KiwiSaver’s dark web
01 Oct 2019 What really makes a diversified income fund run?
01 Oct 2019 Gascoigne departs PM Capital role
01 Oct 2019 FMA tackles green-washing
September 2019
30 Sep 2019 Select Wealth cuts fees
30 Sep 2019 AIA adds mental health support
30 Sep 2019 Firm start to the week as A2 drives NZ shares higher
30 Sep 2019 Consents up again in August
30 Sep 2019 Southern Cross builds senior team
30 Sep 2019 Kiwibank rate drop; Regulatory concerns
30 Sep 2019 Westside fortunes
30 Sep 2019 Financial Advice NZ ponders future under new rules
27 Sep 2019 Property stocks rise while gentailers fall. Market edge up in quiet trading overall
27 Sep 2019 Bad behaviour behind most 90-day notices
27 Sep 2019 Newpark concern over regulation; TSB, ASB rate cuts
27 Sep 2019 Newpark hits out at regulatory confusion
27 Sep 2019 Tony Alexander resigns from BNZ
27 Sep 2019 Financial advisers help tackle stress
26 Sep 2019 Investors unnerved by global uncertainty; Fonterra jumps but market falls
26 Sep 2019 LVR limits slow down investors
26 Sep 2019 MySolutions speaks out; LVR slows down investors; Westpac cut
26 Sep 2019 Kiwi Wealth launches managed funds
25 Sep 2019 Two well-known life insurance execs join Allianz
25 Sep 2019 Govt not throwing baby out with bathwater: Ballantyne
25 Sep 2019 Yield stocks back in favour with investors; Air NZ takes off
25 Sep 2019 MySolutions wants independence for advisers
25 Sep 2019 OCR on hold: November cut expected
25 Sep 2019 LVR speed limits slow down investors
25 Sep 2019 OCR decision revealed
25 Sep 2019 Crackdown on conduct
25 Sep 2019 SBS rate cuts; MySolutions wants adviser independence
25 Sep 2019 Rents ramp up in Capital’s tight market
25 Sep 2019 Govt must regulate property managers - REINZ
25 Sep 2019 What SMEs think of life insurance advisers
25 Sep 2019 Shanks signs up for level five
25 Sep 2019 Time for changes to KiwiSaver
24 Sep 2019 Superannuation veteran returns to Mercer as Partner
24 Sep 2019 NZ shares fall as A2 hits 7-month low; Spark still defies naysayers
24 Sep 2019 Not all high yielding stocks are equal. Here's three that deserve second-thoughts
24 Sep 2019 ANZ warns of mortgage rate pressure
24 Sep 2019 Upward pressure on mortgage rates: ANZ
24 Sep 2019 Does the latest cut to the RBNZ official cash rate further signal the death of future returns?
24 Sep 2019 RBNZ needs more resources, not more powers: Bascand
23 Sep 2019 Green investment team hired
23 Sep 2019 Major milestone for Cigna
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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