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August 2008
22 Aug 2008 Take part in our survey for property investors
22 Aug 2008 Geneva to review loan book
22 Aug 2008 Tower Health adds new boss for intermediaries
22 Aug 2008 PIS aims to be number one in a year
21 Aug 2008 Weekly Wrap:
21 Aug 2008 New Zealand Finance Sector Forum
21 Aug 2008 Prepare for action
21 Aug 2008 National supports adviser bill: Dalziel
20 Aug 2008 AXA appoints new GM
20 Aug 2008 Wow. A minister with passion!
20 Aug 2008 Slow but steady improvement
20 Aug 2008 Tweaking of mortgage rates continues
20 Aug 2008 Home loan report: Tweaking continues
20 Aug 2008 Strategic has loss of $15.5m on bad debts
20 Aug 2008 Employers backing away from super aid, study finds
20 Aug 2008 Property Development & Investment 2008
20 Aug 2008 Housing market optimism picks up
20 Aug 2008 Grosvenor takes icing off fund
20 Aug 2008 Opinion: The advantages of being second class
19 Aug 2008 PIS Annual Conference
19 Aug 2008 Adviser groups come together as one
18 Aug 2008 Clean Tech Investment Symposium
18 Aug 2008 New CIO at BT
18 Aug 2008 Banks may be softening anti-broker stance
18 Aug 2008 News Round Up
15 Aug 2008 Yvonne Davie to head up research house
15 Aug 2008 You make up your mind what is happening
15 Aug 2008 Weekly Wrap: Industry transmogrification
15 Aug 2008 No upturn ahead
15 Aug 2008 Allco Hit, Strategic bidders reach preliminary agreement
15 Aug 2008 Research: Stepped vs level – there's more than one right answer
15 Aug 2008 Broadbase narrows to three
15 Aug 2008 Economists unanimous on rate cut
14 Aug 2008 ASFONZ Education – Advanced Investing
14 Aug 2008 More cuts need to lift confidence: Macquarie
14 Aug 2008 Home loan report: On the home straight for cuts?
14 Aug 2008 Home loan report: On the home straight for cuts?
13 Aug 2008 Mortgage brokers start selling KiwiSaver
13 Aug 2008 Breakfast with the Economists 2008
13 Aug 2008 ASFONZ Education – Best Practice Governance
13 Aug 2008 Govt supports Commissioner of Financial Advisers
13 Aug 2008 Fundit focuses on brokers
13 Aug 2008 ING complaints queuing up at Banking Ombudsman
12 Aug 2008 ISO overhaul urged in five-year review
12 Aug 2008 Property market recovers in July: REINZ
12 Aug 2008 Residential Highlights – July 2008
12 Aug 2008 Breakfast with the Economists 2008
12 Aug 2008 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Investing
12 Aug 2008 Advisory groups growing
12 Aug 2008 Book: A Greener House
11 Aug 2008 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Trusteeship
11 Aug 2008 What's happening to house prices in your region?
11 Aug 2008 Property values continue to decline: QV
10 Aug 2008 Mortgage brokers likely to escape tougher regulation
10 Aug 2008 News Round Up
08 Aug 2008 KNOCKOUT: Creating coupons from equities
08 Aug 2008 Should the rules around property change?
08 Aug 2008 St Laurence Roadshow 2008
08 Aug 2008 Luke warm response to new proposal
07 Aug 2008 Strategic suspends redemptions
07 Aug 2008 Finance firm failures claim new victim: Axis quits ratings
07 Aug 2008 Tower ends insurance products accord with ANZ
07 Aug 2008 Change of plans but are we there yet?
07 Aug 2008 Market Review: August 2008 Commentary
07 Aug 2008 A partial recovery ahead?
07 Aug 2008 AXA insurance sales up 15%
07 Aug 2008 St Laurence Roadshow 2008
07 Aug 2008 More tiers for advisers as committee redefines bill
07 Aug 2008 Select Committee second report
07 Aug 2008 Brook directors step down
07 Aug 2008 Home loan report: Fragile market
07 Aug 2008 Tranzact recruits one more for the advice roundtable
07 Aug 2008 The NZ Mortgage Mag – Up for grabs
06 Aug 2008 Home loan report: Fragile market
06 Aug 2008 Auckland house prices fell in July
06 Aug 2008 St Laurence Roadshow 2008
06 Aug 2008 Opinion: Did your first love scar you for life?
06 Aug 2008 Accuro appoints former AXA manager as CEO
06 Aug 2008 Lost Aussie super could add $5bn to KiwiSaver
05 Aug 2008 St Laurence Roadshow 2008
05 Aug 2008 St Laurence Roadshow 2008
05 Aug 2008 Book: Forecasting for Real Estate Wealth
04 Aug 2008 Tower's Blue Box sent packing
04 Aug 2008 Hanover updates advisers on progress
04 Aug 2008 AXA halts wholesale withdrawals from $229m MBS fund
04 Aug 2008 AXA halts wholesale withdrawals from $229m MBS fund
04 Aug 2008 New adviser at Westpac
04 Aug 2008 St Laurence Roadshow 2008
04 Aug 2008 Sales climbed, prices slipped
04 Aug 2008 August issue - available now
04 Aug 2008 News Round Up
04 Aug 2008 Toolbox: Xero for property investors
01 Aug 2008 Weekly Wrap: Winter of discontent continues
01 Aug 2008 Surviving the downturn
01 Aug 2008 Agents bill heads towards law
01 Aug 2008 AMP puts property fund in the freezer
01 Aug 2008 Rising rents affecting owner occupation
01 Aug 2008 Fund flow weak
01 Aug 2008 Dyer's new circumstances at ACC
01 Aug 2008 AMP puts property fund in the freezer
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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