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September 2012
06 Sep 2012 Number of new listings up: Realestate.co.nz
05 Sep 2012 Liberty gets Mike Pero
05 Sep 2012 Bad debts and bad advice
05 Sep 2012 Banks' bad debt charges set to blow out again: Tripe
05 Sep 2012 IRG sells advisory business to ForBarr
05 Sep 2012 Big lift in Canterbury reconstruction
05 Sep 2012 Sales booming but prices steady: Barfoot and Thompson
04 Sep 2012 Quake shakes Tower’s profit forecast
04 Sep 2012 Adviser guilty of $15m fraud
04 Sep 2012 Former mortgage broker Buddle charged
04 Sep 2012 Shift to fixed continues: Broker charged
04 Sep 2012 China's food pain to be New Zealand's gain
04 Sep 2012 Move to fixed rates continues
04 Sep 2012 Strategi takes over Adviserlink's business
04 Sep 2012 IRD keeps eye on property profit
04 Sep 2012 Rate stategy offers variety
04 Sep 2012 Hamish Douglass Unplugged - Latest Video from Adviser Briefing - August 2012
03 Sep 2012 TSB's mortgage book shrinks due to government restrictions
03 Sep 2012 News Round Up:September 3
03 Sep 2012 The ideal medical insurance product
03 Sep 2012 Westpac maintains market share
03 Sep 2012 New boss plans FundSource rebirth
03 Sep 2012 SBS makes another cut
03 Sep 2012 Inquiries slow for no-reserve auction
03 Sep 2012 More regulation likely for proportionate schemes
03 Sep 2012 Where have the big gains been?
August 2012
31 Aug 2012 Co-operative exploits temporary window to grow low equity mortgages
31 Aug 2012 [Weekly wrap] Calls to reclassify KiwiSaver
31 Aug 2012 Call to relax KiwiSaver advice rules
31 Aug 2012 Call to relax KiwiSaver advice rules
31 Aug 2012 New Zealand rents too low: Federation
31 Aug 2012 Construction rates up but not enough: Master Builders
31 Aug 2012 High-flier bankrupted
30 Aug 2012 Syndicate wind-up plan approved
30 Aug 2012 IT man for Newpark
30 Aug 2012 PAA gets ETITO tick, new roommate
30 Aug 2012 Heartland to give residential lending the flick
30 Aug 2012 Heartland leaves home loans to the banks
30 Aug 2012 TNP hooks up with Aussie firm
30 Aug 2012 Salvation Army weighs in on affordability
29 Aug 2012 Quake shakes up SBS book
29 Aug 2012 Insurance advisers face non-Pharmac poser
29 Aug 2012 Commission ban no big deal
29 Aug 2012 SBS mortgage book shrinks again
29 Aug 2012 Westpac offers online house hunting tool
29 Aug 2012 Construction work picks up pace
28 Aug 2012 Perpetual challenges FMA raids
28 Aug 2012 Making sense of ASB's strategy
28 Aug 2012 Take care with water charges: MoBIE
28 Aug 2012 Not installers' right to limit access
27 Aug 2012 Investor surprised by lack of adviser lawsuits
27 Aug 2012 Different home loan strategies
27 Aug 2012 GFNZ has new funding line and to complete repayment to former Geneva debentureholders
27 Aug 2012 Loan will be repaid: SPI
27 Aug 2012 ASB & Co cut rates
27 Aug 2012 Syndicated sale of bank building sells out
27 Aug 2012 Insurance warning for investors
26 Aug 2012 Rates round-up: August 26
24 Aug 2012 Price of Morgan's KiwiSaver business revealed
24 Aug 2012 TSB's 15 month rate
24 Aug 2012 [Weekly wrap] Morgan's KiwiSaver pocket money
24 Aug 2012 FMA monitoring not just for AFAs
24 Aug 2012 Prices will keep rising: Economist
23 Aug 2012 Kiwibank's life insurance aspirations
23 Aug 2012 Fisher & Paykel Finance lifts profit 6.9% in four months ended July
23 Aug 2012 S&P slashes GFNZ credit rating to "currently highly vulnerable"
23 Aug 2012 Syndicate wind-up plan opposed
23 Aug 2012 Ground rent debate subdues prices
22 Aug 2012 BNZ and Kiwibank tell their stories
22 Aug 2012 SFO to appeal Capital + Merchant verdict
22 Aug 2012 BNZ's mortgage book growth losing momentum, profit jumps
22 Aug 2012 Kiwibank's mortgage growth momentum slows; need $200m in fresh capital
22 Aug 2012 Workplace financial advice a ‘loss leader’
22 Aug 2012 AMP's new business levels hammered
22 Aug 2012 Apps changing house hunt
22 Aug 2012 Westie property market springs into life
21 Aug 2012 Businesses and households expect subdued inflation
21 Aug 2012 CPD courses come under scrutiny
21 Aug 2012 ANZ sets home loan record
21 Aug 2012 All this draught is daft
21 Aug 2012 Over-valued houses mean nothing for prices: Alexander
20 Aug 2012 New life business bounces back
20 Aug 2012 Tyndall appoints new analyst
20 Aug 2012 ANZ sets record for home loans
20 Aug 2012 Rates round-up: August 20
20 Aug 2012 Minister surprised by lack of draw-down products
20 Aug 2012 Housing market to remain sketchy: ANZ
20 Aug 2012 Low-doc lending finding favour again
20 Aug 2012 Affordability efforts need to broaden focus: ANZ
17 Aug 2012 RIIA executive director to step down
17 Aug 2012 ANZ and National banks move rates
17 Aug 2012 Feeling busy?
17 Aug 2012 [Weekly wrap] Measuring up advice standards
17 Aug 2012 The high life for five-star Partners and Fidelity
17 Aug 2012 Government flunks own advice standards
17 Aug 2012 Property market consolidating: ANZ
17 Aug 2012 Pegasus Town in liquidation
16 Aug 2012 Partners Life joins the Financial Services Council
16 Aug 2012 AMP's premium income up
16 Aug 2012 Rodney Hartles responds to judgment
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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