Archive - 2001
Year:
2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
Filter:
Clear Filter
July 2001
01 Jul 2001 Superannuation watchdog barks, but won’t bite
01 Jul 2001 The best of the best from both sides of the Tasman
01 Jul 2001 Insurers keen to test the Internet’s potential
01 Jul 2001 AssureDirect offers significant premium discounts
01 Jul 2001 The logic of online insurance
01 Jul 2001 Money Managers appoints new seminar presenter
June 2001
29 Jun 2001 Lower mortgage rates likely this year but not yet
29 Jun 2001 Royal & Sunalliance appoints new Business Support Manager
29 Jun 2001 ASB's Ralph Norris to retire
29 Jun 2001 Invest now to Secure our Future
29 Jun 2001 Lifting the Lid
28 Jun 2001 Treasury confirms it - Govt borrowing for Superfund
28 Jun 2001 PLANZ to be wound up
28 Jun 2001 Royal & Sunalliance appoints new Technology Support Manager
28 Jun 2001 Lifting the Lid
28 Jun 2001 Broking firm challenges the market
27 Jun 2001 Lumley Life seeks to by-pass troublesome upfront agents’ fees
27 Jun 2001 Beauty in the eye of the beholder
27 Jun 2001 Lifting the Lid
26 Jun 2001 New chair seated at Securities Commission
26 Jun 2001 Dorchester continues to grow
26 Jun 2001 Lifting the Lid
26 Jun 2001 Lifting the Lid
25 Jun 2001 All money should be invested offshore
25 Jun 2001 Housing tax plain dumb
25 Jun 2001 Global giant comes to NZ
25 Jun 2001 News Round Up
25 Jun 2001 Royal & Sunalliance appoints new Product Manager, Risk
25 Jun 2001 Marketing Today: Putting CRM theory into practice
25 Jun 2001 Lifting the Lid
24 Jun 2001 Watchdog's role unclear
22 Jun 2001 Jeanie Stanton leaving
22 Jun 2001 Polies reject housing tax, real estate agents crow
22 Jun 2001 Lifting the Lid
22 Jun 2001 Bondholder payout delayed
21 Jun 2001 Everyone's lining up for Life2go
21 Jun 2001 Review supports TTE, not TET
21 Jun 2001 Lifting the Lid
21 Jun 2001 Lifting the Lid
21 Jun 2001 Government review recommends tax on housing
21 Jun 2001 Breakthrough on Aust tax credits
20 Jun 2001 Tax changes to encourage savings
20 Jun 2001 Turn the lights on and make sure the drivers are licensed
20 Jun 2001 Property: Going round in circles
20 Jun 2001 Saving and investment in NZ and the super fund
20 Jun 2001 The Super Fund: Panacea or Placebo
20 Jun 2001 Interest rates: As low as they go?
20 Jun 2001 Improvement but no housing boom in sight
19 Jun 2001 Govt underfunds savings message
19 Jun 2001 How the Govt cut the Retirement Commissioner's funding
19 Jun 2001 FMG appoints new group regional manager
19 Jun 2001 Govt secures the numbers
19 Jun 2001 News Round Up
18 Jun 2001 Housing sales remain strong
18 Jun 2001 New boss at Morningstar
18 Jun 2001 Fund's rules present problems
17 Jun 2001 Panel goes for cash and intl shares
14 Jun 2001 New banking boss
14 Jun 2001 Colonial announces changes to its New Zealand team
14 Jun 2001 'Bright portfolio construction ideas to help you invest smarter'
14 Jun 2001 Green Party oppose Superannuation Fund Amendment Bill
14 Jun 2001 National continue to look at alternative
14 Jun 2001 Cullen and Peters on same 'wave length'
14 Jun 2001 Cullen agrees to proposal
14 Jun 2001 Weinsure goes hunting for bean-counters
14 Jun 2001 Mortgages for problem borrowers
13 Jun 2001 'Bright portfolio construction ideas to help you invest smarter'
12 Jun 2001 AJ takes high ground with new fund
11 Jun 2001 Further rate cut hopes fade
11 Jun 2001 Armstrong Jones Fund Launch
11 Jun 2001 Armstrong Jones Fund Launch
11 Jun 2001 Adviserlink - Introduction to Financial Planning
11 Jun 2001 'Bright portfolio construction ideas to help you invest smarter'
11 Jun 2001 First Metropolis repayment plan turned down
10 Jun 2001 News Round Up
10 Jun 2001 Opinions still divided about online broking
10 Jun 2001 Opinions still divided about online broking
10 Jun 2001 Hospitals to pay for super
08 Jun 2001 Health Insurance Numbers Expected To Rise
08 Jun 2001 Armstrong Jones Fund Launch
08 Jun 2001 Armstrong Jones Fund Launch
07 Jun 2001 Uncertainty remains over index funds
07 Jun 2001 Club Life gears up for business
07 Jun 2001 What happens next to the ultimate political football
07 Jun 2001 An open letter to the Prime Minister
07 Jun 2001 Armstrong Jones Fund Launch
07 Jun 2001 Armstrong Jones Fund Launch
07 Jun 2001 PSIS extends home loans
07 Jun 2001 Is the Govt borrowing to seed its super fund?
07 Jun 2001 Not all offshore funds the same
06 Jun 2001 Opinion: National all bark, but no bite
06 Jun 2001 Armstrong Jones Fund Launch
06 Jun 2001 Retirement Commissioner Counsels Public Amidst Political Debate
06 Jun 2001 Armstrong Jones Fund Launch
06 Jun 2001 Politicians Continue To Play Silly Games Over Super
06 Jun 2001 Two new Tower Managed Funds appointments
06 Jun 2001 PR: ACT Repeats Call For Multi-Party Super Talks
06 Jun 2001 National Cries Foul Over Super Fund Select Committee Process
06 Jun 2001 Column: National all bark, but no bite
06 Jun 2001 Online Real Estate
Latest News
Weekly Wrap
Weekly Wrap
1 min read
5+5 Ideal super savings rate experts say
5+5 Ideal super savings rate experts say
2 min read
Second funds management firm sold today
Second funds management firm sold today
3 min read
CastlePoint Funds sold (again)
CastlePoint Funds sold (again)
3 min read
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