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September 2020
15 Sep 2020 New Zealand to require financial sector to report on climate risk
15 Sep 2020 Asteron Life: One fifth of SMEs don’t know where to find an adviser
15 Sep 2020 Cigna announces multi-benefit discount on new policies
15 Sep 2020 Ex-partner’s behaviour not a tenancy breach
15 Sep 2020 Are branch customers getting preferential treatment?
15 Sep 2020 Responsible investors ahead of the game
15 Sep 2020 Are branch customers getting preferential treatment?
15 Sep 2020 Reporting season and forecasting a waste of time
15 Sep 2020 Kiwi Invest reveal new asset allocation strategist
14 Sep 2020 NZ shares rise as THL bolsters sentiment
14 Sep 2020 Online innovation brings huge strides forward in digital adviser technology
14 Sep 2020 Expect house prices to keep rising - Westpac
14 Sep 2020 Turnaround times: how do the banks compare?
14 Sep 2020 Turnaround times: how do the banks compare?
14 Sep 2020 [GRTV] Boyle on KiwiSaver changes
14 Sep 2020 MMC successfully reach for the cloud
14 Sep 2020 Eat My Lunch founder joins Simplicity
12 Sep 2020 What the heck is a consumer data right?
11 Sep 2020 Profit-taking pulls shares lower
11 Sep 2020 KiwiSaver - After the Covid downturn
11 Sep 2020 Covid be damned – the market is booming
11 Sep 2020 Turnaround time turmoil
11 Sep 2020 Turnaround time turmoil
11 Sep 2020 Bond specialist raises concerns over recent FMA guidelines
10 Sep 2020 NZ shares bounce with Wall St
10 Sep 2020 Tahito appoints AIA chief strategy officer as chair
10 Sep 2020 Real estate price-fixing saga ends with big penalty
10 Sep 2020 ANZ redeploys staff to broker applications
10 Sep 2020 Managers have abdicated responsibility: Kiwi Invest
10 Sep 2020 ANZ redeploys staff to broker applications
09 Sep 2020 Stock market selloff returns from holiday
09 Sep 2020 Southern Cross to bring mental health programme to kiwi kids
09 Sep 2020 AMP Capital appoints new fixed income analyst
09 Sep 2020 Interest rates, not bargains, driving investors
09 Sep 2020 Interest rates not bargains driving investors
09 Sep 2020 IRD offers guidance on cryptoassets
08 Sep 2020 Sky TV leads gains for second day
08 Sep 2020 Struggling to secure finance?
08 Sep 2020 Asteron Life goes live with new mental health support service
08 Sep 2020 COMMENT: Furore over Healthy Homes story misleading
08 Sep 2020 Economy faring better than expected; Where are properties selling above CVs?
08 Sep 2020 Asteron Life expands Best Doctors offer
08 Sep 2020 Should you stay, or should you go?
08 Sep 2020 Firms will need to 'consolidate and grow'
07 Sep 2020 Shares rise in quiet trading
07 Sep 2020 Economy performing better-than-expected: ASB
07 Sep 2020 Westpac not budging on investor LVR
07 Sep 2020 Westpac not budging on investor LVR
07 Sep 2020 FMA offers investors insight into bonds
04 Sep 2020 Sharpest drop on NZX in months
04 Sep 2020 Where are properties selling most above CVs?
04 Sep 2020 Non-bank criteria changing during pandemic; Tip for landlords
04 Sep 2020 Generating income in a negative rates world
04 Sep 2020 Responsible investment's gender gap
03 Sep 2020 Entertainment stocks lead market rally
03 Sep 2020 Non-bank criteria changing through Covid
03 Sep 2020 Households spend nearly a third of their income on mortgage
03 Sep 2020 COMMENT: Don’t miss your $5,000 deductions!
03 Sep 2020 Deloitte: Tricky to compare NZ insurance to other markets
03 Sep 2020 AMP reports 'increase in interest' in its businesses
02 Sep 2020 Shares rise, dollar hits 14-month high
02 Sep 2020 Households spending 32% of income on mortgage
02 Sep 2020 FSC offers info hub for advisers
02 Sep 2020 Super City powers through lockdown 2.0
02 Sep 2020 Moving rent tech out of the past
02 Sep 2020 Kiwibank profits fall; Market holds firm against Covid
02 Sep 2020 Financial Advice NZ conference gets funding
02 Sep 2020 Level five isn't the big issue for advisers; It's something else
02 Sep 2020 Financial advisers get cyber warning
01 Sep 2020 High consent issuance not expected to continue
01 Sep 2020 Strong currency weighs down exporters
01 Sep 2020 Kiwibank profits drop by 47%
01 Sep 2020 ANZ completes UDC sale
01 Sep 2020 Market holds firm in Covid-19 storm
01 Sep 2020 Advisers sail through second lockdown; Westpac rate cuts
01 Sep 2020 How did the second lockdown compare?
01 Sep 2020 Record housing stock lows round NZ
01 Sep 2020 Australian banks' offloading of wealth businesses continues
August 2020
31 Aug 2020 Heavyweight exporters fall as dollar rises
31 Aug 2020 Consents no longer needed for low-risk work
31 Aug 2020 Sub-2% mortgages for several years?
31 Aug 2020 Sub-2% rates for two to three years: economists
31 Aug 2020 Mint moves to new digital onboarding platform
31 Aug 2020 Online rent talk attracts ComCom attention
31 Aug 2020 Will hackers interfere with NZX for second week?
31 Aug 2020 Pathfinder gets B Corp status
31 Aug 2020 Steady Southern star
28 Aug 2020 [OPINION] The industry needs to shift focus from ‘what you need to do’ to ‘how will you do it?’
28 Aug 2020 Reeling from cyber attacks, NZX 50 shuffles to record
28 Aug 2020 Buyer sentiment at eight year high
28 Aug 2020 Resimac slashes prime servicing rate; Clouds loom over housing market
28 Aug 2020 Financial services sector questioned regulation draft
28 Aug 2020 How to write about money
27 Aug 2020 Third cyber attack halts NZX trading
27 Aug 2020 Resimac slashes servicing rate
27 Aug 2020 Clouds remain over housing market
27 Aug 2020 Sub 2% rates to boost housing market; Borrowing boom in July
27 Aug 2020 FMA appoints director of investment management
27 Aug 2020 Licences near 1,000 milestone
26 Aug 2020 Borrowing boom in July – before second lockdown
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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