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September 2023
20 Sep 2023 KiwiSaver fee revenue drops for the first time since 2007
20 Sep 2023 AIA NZ launches new online adviser onboarding application
19 Sep 2023 NZ market follows the US as investors wait for Fed’s decision
19 Sep 2023 How to help customers in financial difficulty
19 Sep 2023 Contrasting, but productive, times
19 Sep 2023 Help to borrowers in financial difficulty outlined
19 Sep 2023 Clear eyed focus needed on economy’s supply side
19 Sep 2023 FSC won't comment on Nat plan to scrap Cofi
19 Sep 2023 Heartland says big banks use scale to block competition
19 Sep 2023 [OPINION] How the next Government can help tenants
18 Sep 2023 NZ market edges up while shares in Synlait Milk drop almost 10%
18 Sep 2023 AIA moves closed unit-linked policies to passive manager
18 Sep 2023 Properties selling faster and prices increase
18 Sep 2023 Fake adviser pleads guilty
18 Sep 2023 Bizcap is surprised at the level of New Zealand growth in a short time
18 Sep 2023 Loans and defaults for ‘open minded’ lender
18 Sep 2023 Who understands the new map of life?
18 Sep 2023 Key challenges to overcome when selling an advice business today
15 Sep 2023 NZ sharemarket ends week on brighter note with heavy trading
15 Sep 2023 How Lend Capital works
15 Sep 2023 Unsecured SME loans the future new player says
15 Sep 2023 ESG ratings provider faces layoffs
14 Sep 2023 NZ sharemarket suffers from ex-dividend blues
14 Sep 2023 FMA aware of but won't comment on Southern Cross benefit removal
14 Sep 2023 Chubb has new head underwriter
13 Sep 2023 NZX50 breaks an eight day losing streak
13 Sep 2023 Housing market perkier than expected as it turns around
13 Sep 2023 A record high for New Zealand Super Fund
13 Sep 2023 Industry researchers also in the dark on Southern Cross benefit
13 Sep 2023 Harbour Investment Outlook: Past the winter solstice, but is it spring yet?
12 Sep 2023 NZ sharemarket steadies after govt opens the books
12 Sep 2023 Treasury warns of more pain if interest rates rise
12 Sep 2023 New small business lending platform launches in New Zealand
12 Sep 2023 A healthier market in sight
12 Sep 2023 Generate impact investment builds new homes in Christchurch
12 Sep 2023 Tech stack stuff
12 Sep 2023 Prospa joins Lend Capital’s new lending marketplace launch
12 Sep 2023 Nikko looks to be slightly defensive
11 Sep 2023 NZ sharemarket slips ahead of economic and fiscal update
11 Sep 2023 The AI revolution - what's next for the financial services industry?
11 Sep 2023 Reining in the Reserve Bank
11 Sep 2023 Past decade sees financial adviser role evolve
11 Sep 2023 Reining in the RBNZ
11 Sep 2023 Submissions open on new 'protection of KiwiSaver members' bill
09 Sep 2023 Burning down the house
08 Sep 2023 NZX50 slides to nine-month low
08 Sep 2023 Other health insurers are much more generous than Southern Cross
08 Sep 2023 [OPINION] New Zealand’s broken property market
08 Sep 2023 National could expand bank market study
08 Sep 2023 Raid on commercial investors depreciation of assets detrimental
08 Sep 2023 Visit to US advisers yields growth tips aplenty
07 Sep 2023 NZX50 flat as companies go ex-dividend
07 Sep 2023 Freeing up foreign investment
07 Sep 2023 Lack of PE investment in KiwiSaver means members miss out
06 Sep 2023 NZX50 continues its slow slide
06 Sep 2023 Dire economic outlook should be positive for bonds: Nikko
06 Sep 2023 Confidence on interest rate cuts next year vanishes
06 Sep 2023 Dunedin’s buy-up plan to mitigate climate change
06 Sep 2023 Tough times ahead for NZ economy: British economist
05 Sep 2023 NZX 50 hits new low for 2023
05 Sep 2023 House sales rise more than 50% on a year ago
05 Sep 2023 [GRTV] You never write off the Kiwis
04 Sep 2023 SkyCity's share plunge dominates NZ sharemarket
04 Sep 2023 Not a huge market for foreign buyers
04 Sep 2023 Liberty Strengthens Team with Three Key Appointments
04 Sep 2023 Liberty makes three key appointments
04 Sep 2023 NZ Super Fund buys into European infrastructure provider
04 Sep 2023 We may be trusted advisers to our clients, but insurers don't trust us
04 Sep 2023 [GRTV] Advisers can thrive
03 Sep 2023 JMI Wealth appoints two senior advisers
02 Sep 2023 COMMENT: What is Westpac's real profit number?
01 Sep 2023 Auckland airport a bright note in a dull day on the NZ sharemarket
01 Sep 2023 Southern Cross says it told advisers, policyholders of withdrawn benefit
01 Sep 2023 Pepper buys HSBC's NZ home loans book
01 Sep 2023 Non-bank lender buys HSBC's home loan book
01 Sep 2023 BREAKING NEWS: HSBC loan book gets a surprisng new owner: one of the non-banks
01 Sep 2023 Southern Cross drops $60k benefit by stealth: agents
01 Sep 2023 [GRTV] KiwiSaver: a ticket to prosperity that politicians don’t get
August 2023
31 Aug 2023 A bleak August for the sharemarket ends on a slight uplift
31 Aug 2023 Room to improve compliance support in NZ
31 Aug 2023 Finsure sees room to improve compliance support in NZ
31 Aug 2023 Spending on nice to haves rapidly shutting down
31 Aug 2023 Waiting for election day and possible relief
31 Aug 2023 More KiwiSaver enters sin stocks through passive investing
30 Aug 2023 Market flat as property stocks fall on National policy
30 Aug 2023 Easier bank lending v mortgage test rates
30 Aug 2023 Where the FMA is headed
29 Aug 2023 fiddly
29 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket lifts as results brighten investors' mood
29 Aug 2023 NZHL makes appointment to drive growth
29 Aug 2023 Heartland grows its reverse mortgage business
29 Aug 2023 Debt consolidation helps drive Heartland reverse mortgage business
29 Aug 2023 Restoring housing affordability
29 Aug 2023 Heartland's reverse mortgages grow at more than 20%
28 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket lifts on budget cuts and US news
28 Aug 2023 Sub-optimal contributions all round
28 Aug 2023 Mortgage lending make-up revealed
28 Aug 2023 Thoughts on underperformance by an active manager
26 Aug 2023 COMMENT: RBNZ is still capable of producing worthwhile research
25 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket dips despite solid results
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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