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August 2013
15 Aug 2013 ASB's bumper profit
15 Aug 2013 Showing value for advice number one issue
15 Aug 2013 Private option for listings
14 Aug 2013 LVR restrictions a significant change: ASB
14 Aug 2013 Do trips make a difference?
14 Aug 2013 Loan restrictions creep closer - or do they?
14 Aug 2013 Code review sparks soft dollar commission debate
14 Aug 2013 LVR restrictions at odds with Government: Eaqub
13 Aug 2013 Reserve Bank releases response to submissions on high-LVR restrictions
13 Aug 2013 Aussie takes over IFA board chair
13 Aug 2013 Two tier home loan pricing
13 Aug 2013 How much do advisers earn?
13 Aug 2013 Returning to the heart of being a broker
13 Aug 2013 Botherway considers property fund: report
13 Aug 2013 First-home buyers rush in
12 Aug 2013 Code changes impact RFAs
12 Aug 2013 First-home buyers try to beat restrictions: REINZ
12 Aug 2013 House price expectations up
11 Aug 2013 Changes to KiwiSaver subsidy, Welcome Home Loans announced
11 Aug 2013 Shareholders to vote on note conversion
10 Aug 2013 More RMA reforms planned
09 Aug 2013 New appointment to Southern Cross Travel Insurance
09 Aug 2013 General Finance reports growth
09 Aug 2013 Code changes released
09 Aug 2013 Wind up of LM Fund to start
09 Aug 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Code Committee shows its hand
09 Aug 2013 How to tell a good adviser from a bad one
09 Aug 2013 Quick auctions not in vendor's interests: Helm
09 Aug 2013 Lender seeking projects
08 Aug 2013 CEO of biggest broking group resigns
08 Aug 2013 LVR lending restrictions may not materialize
08 Aug 2013 Henderson reduces fees
08 Aug 2013 New chairman for Million Dollar Round Table
08 Aug 2013 The return of big planning firms
08 Aug 2013 Prices growing, but more slowly: QV
07 Aug 2013 A little less stimulus ahead
07 Aug 2013 RBA cuts, lenders pass
07 Aug 2013 Auctions frustrating buyers
07 Aug 2013 Investors less keen to buy Crockers
06 Aug 2013 Fisher gets first performance fee
06 Aug 2013 More on high LVR lending
06 Aug 2013 Warren Buffett backs Partners Life
06 Aug 2013 Henderson monthly commentary
06 Aug 2013 Increasing numbers of RFAs moving towards AFA status
06 Aug 2013 Warning to construction firms: Not so fast...
05 Aug 2013 Low equity loans fine as long as priced properly: Church
05 Aug 2013 FADC's first hearing over in a flash
05 Aug 2013 Pathfinder Monthly Commentary
05 Aug 2013 When systems go bad
05 Aug 2013 RESIMAC makes some changes to rates and fees
05 Aug 2013 FADC hears first AFA complaints today
05 Aug 2013 New listings offer no supply boost: Barfoot
05 Aug 2013 First-home buyers driving prices more than investors: King
02 Aug 2013 Two banks join RealMe; another thinks about it
02 Aug 2013 All New APARTMENTS Magazine - now available
02 Aug 2013 Tyndall Monthly Commentary: China: External Discipline
02 Aug 2013 Fidelity completes TOWER buy
01 Aug 2013 Currency intervention 'not the answer'
01 Aug 2013 AMP gets approval to combine schemes
01 Aug 2013 New rate from TSB
01 Aug 2013 KiwiSaver 'bailout' complied with rules: Westpac
01 Aug 2013 Regulation 'not successful'
July 2013
31 Jul 2013 [Opinion] Getting it off at the Playboy mansion
31 Jul 2013 Bank insurance practises queried
31 Jul 2013 Ireland keeps Code Committee chair
31 Jul 2013 Springboard clearly LVR move: Matthews
31 Jul 2013 Yield play on sharemarket diminishing
31 Jul 2013 LDC investors get full refund
31 Jul 2013 Broaden view on custody
31 Jul 2013 Consider other tools to cool market: Commentators
30 Jul 2013 Offsets open LVR debate
30 Jul 2013 Speirs re-enters finance market
30 Jul 2013 Code needs refreshing: Ireland
30 Jul 2013 Thursday deadline date for LM fund
29 Jul 2013 Westpac third to market with offset loan
29 Jul 2013 Kiwibank switches home loan focus
29 Jul 2013 FMA tells advisers how to give limited advice
29 Jul 2013 Prospects for the NZ sharemarket
29 Jul 2013 Strategic investors still likely to get 20%
26 Jul 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Who has the responsibility?
26 Jul 2013 F&P profit up 20%
26 Jul 2013 Reading the OCR tea leaves
26 Jul 2013 Problem found with AML
26 Jul 2013 Interest rates: A game of two halves
26 Jul 2013 Lowest rates have passed: ANZ
25 Jul 2013 Kiwibank promotes offsets
25 Jul 2013 Hike 'may come sooner than expected'
25 Jul 2013 No OCR change - see what RBNZ said
25 Jul 2013 Little improvement in financial literacy: Hughes
25 Jul 2013 No change from central bank; Rate change from big bank
25 Jul 2013 'Hike may come sooner than expected'
24 Jul 2013 Public design next app
24 Jul 2013 Making application process easier
24 Jul 2013 Dispute schemes offering carrots to advisers
24 Jul 2013 FMA files market manipulation claims
24 Jul 2013 Key backs off on first home buyer exemptions - a little
24 Jul 2013 Key backs off on first home buyer exemptions - a little
24 Jul 2013 Why accountants and lawyers are treated differently
24 Jul 2013 Newland: Buyers will find a way around restrictions
24 Jul 2013 Investors asked for their views
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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