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October 2020
05 Oct 2020 Small business loan boost
05 Oct 2020 Cigna Life appoint new GM of distribution
05 Oct 2020 Big damage pay-out awarded to landlord
05 Oct 2020 Frustration over home loan processing
05 Oct 2020 Frustration over home loan processing
04 Oct 2020 Tender for default KiwiSaver funds finally arrives
02 Oct 2020 Shares edge higher as Aussie border opens
02 Oct 2020 Labour plans to regulate property managers
02 Oct 2020 AIA rolls out new claims management service
02 Oct 2020 Booming sales in the Super City
02 Oct 2020 Mortgage Express hires ex-Kiwibank AFA
02 Oct 2020 Why Kepa and NZFSG merged; Mortgage Express hire from Kiwibank
02 Oct 2020 COMMENT: The true cost to build a house
02 Oct 2020 FMA KiwiSaver report: Contributions, fund-switching and fees
01 Oct 2020 Healthcare stocks lead market higher
01 Oct 2020 [The Wrap] How the mighty have fallen (or are wavering)
01 Oct 2020 Fidelity Life to stop upfront commission on inflation increases
01 Oct 2020 Reserve Bank relaunches Insurance Act review
01 Oct 2020 ASB cuts four and five year fixed rates; Values on the rise again
01 Oct 2020 NZFSG merges with Kepa
01 Oct 2020 Values on the rise again - CoreLogic
01 Oct 2020 Generate make $15 million impact investment to Salvation Army
01 Oct 2020 Low listings boosting prices
September 2020
30 Sep 2020 Castle Point wins blue chip account
30 Sep 2020 A2's decline cancels property gains on NZX today
30 Sep 2020 Resilient consent numbers surprise
30 Sep 2020 Non-bank lending soars
30 Sep 2020 Non-bank lending soars
30 Sep 2020 Wairarapa on the move
30 Sep 2020 Liz Koh: Model portfolios “inevitable”
29 Sep 2020 Dairy decline pulls market lower; A2 leads the way
29 Sep 2020 Growing calls to overhaul Responsible Lending Code
29 Sep 2020 Growing calls to overhaul Responsible Lending Code
29 Sep 2020 Pāua Wealth Management look to make a splash with new appointment
29 Sep 2020 Adapting to commercial’s new normal
29 Sep 2020 FMA Supervision Insight Report: The good, the bad and the ugly
29 Sep 2020 How elections move markets
28 Sep 2020 Shares flat as utilities soar while A2 plunges
28 Sep 2020 AIA policy encourages Kiwis to ‘share the love’
28 Sep 2020 MMC re-brand future focused
28 Sep 2020 Healthy Homes standards: to back or to scrap?
28 Sep 2020 Australia scraps responsible lending laws — advisers react
28 Sep 2020 Advisers hopeful about Aussie lending changes
26 Sep 2020 It’s time to level up and address the needs of the modern investor
26 Sep 2020 TAP launches adviser academy to 'raise the bar for professionalism'
25 Sep 2020 Shares bounce on big banks boost
25 Sep 2020 [GRTV] Depressing imbalances in IP market: Hutchinson
25 Sep 2020 Australia scraps responsible lending laws
25 Sep 2020 Southland is tops for investors
25 Sep 2020 August lending record; Kiwibank pays $5 million to customers
25 Sep 2020 Cullen reflects on KiwiSaver, Super Fund and capital gains
25 Sep 2020 FMA: No excuses for shoddy conduct
24 Sep 2020 Kiwi falls on economic concern
24 Sep 2020 August record for mortgage lending
24 Sep 2020 Mortgage Express hires Christchurch adviser
24 Sep 2020 What the Reserve Bank's latest move means for housing
24 Sep 2020 Kiwibank to pay customers $5.2 million over home loan failings
24 Sep 2020 Cheap funding for banks imminent
24 Sep 2020 Movac fund secures Kiwi Invest backing
23 Sep 2020 Pushpay leads stock market higher
23 Sep 2020 Asteron mints new Head of Life role
23 Sep 2020 RBNZ bank funding programme imminent: reaction
23 Sep 2020 OCR decision revealed
23 Sep 2020 New renters' guide for tenants
23 Sep 2020 Kiwibank sees lending rise; OCR decision later
23 Sep 2020 Day of reckoning could be messy: Zollner
23 Sep 2020 Kiwibank sees lending rise: KPMG
22 Sep 2020 NZ shares buck global sell-off
22 Sep 2020 Growth halts for Capital rents
22 Sep 2020 Greer steps down as Loan Market CEO; ICBC rate cut
22 Sep 2020 Greer steps down as Loan Market NZ CEO
22 Sep 2020 Time is running out for 2000 unregistered advisers
21 Sep 2020 Profit taking pulls shares down
21 Sep 2020 Call for rent caps after freeze ends
21 Sep 2020 Reserve Bank to talk up negative OCR: preview survey
21 Sep 2020 RBNZ to talk up negative OCR: preview survey
21 Sep 2020 Insurance Act Review forges on
21 Sep 2020 Ratings agency welcomes climate risk reporting
19 Sep 2020 ESG themes from company reporting season
18 Sep 2020 Strong kiwi weighs down shares
18 Sep 2020 High demand keeps pushing prices up
18 Sep 2020 Heartland reverse mortgage book grows by 10%
17 Sep 2020 FMA details Covid-19 response
17 Sep 2020 Global markets dip as US Fed disappoints
17 Sep 2020 Kiwibank about to enter the adviser market
17 Sep 2020 Specialist lender appoints new CFO
17 Sep 2020 Kiwibank just over a month away from entering adviser market
17 Sep 2020 Heartland reverse mortgage book grows 10%
17 Sep 2020 Mortgage Express hires new Otago adviser
17 Sep 2020 Stewart Financial Group to pay $2k over abandoned ERA bid
16 Sep 2020 Less gloomy outlook boosts kiwi; NZ shares rise
16 Sep 2020 Former AMP Capital man joins Salt
16 Sep 2020 Southern Cross posts surplus after returning $50m to members
16 Sep 2020 The pros and cons of ‘standard’ in compliance
16 Sep 2020 Resimac in $300m mortgage offering
16 Sep 2020 Resimac in $300m mortgage offering
16 Sep 2020 COMMENT: Never a right time to invest – why buyers need to act now
16 Sep 2020 Nikko reveals new strategy for income investors
15 Sep 2020 Adviser complaints increase, IFSO says
15 Sep 2020 Sharemarket misses regional rally; NZX offline - again
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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