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August 2023
25 Aug 2023 [The Wrap] NZers will be left exposed if CoFI is repealed
25 Aug 2023 CEO Bessemer to leave Trustees Executors
25 Aug 2023 NZX Smartshares lifts FUM 29% in six months ended June
25 Aug 2023 Proposed new RTA clause not needed
25 Aug 2023 The role of FAPs in building consumer confidence
24 Aug 2023 High flying Air NZ does not lift the sharemarket
24 Aug 2023 Nikko grows investment team with key appointment
24 Aug 2023 Nikko grows investment team with key appointment
24 Aug 2023 Nikko grows investment team with key appointment
24 Aug 2023 Surge in migration a double edged sword
24 Aug 2023 The fee-for-service model
23 Aug 2023 Ebos leads NZX50 higher for a second day
23 Aug 2023 TAP adds two
23 Aug 2023 More pain; ANZ hikes; TAP hires
23 Aug 2023 Further step to regulation of property managers
23 Aug 2023 More mortgage pain on the horizon
23 Aug 2023 nib NZ expects its insurance to be resilient in the face of rising cost of living
23 Aug 2023 MyFiduciary links up with iwi
22 Aug 2023 Solid results brought an end to days of decline for NZ sharemarket
22 Aug 2023 nib NZ cites rising rates and costs as challenges after lifting profits 36.8%
22 Aug 2023 No way CoFi can stay – National
21 Aug 2023 NZX50 continues to slump despite some upbeat results
21 Aug 2023 Kernel losses mount with growth but break-even is on the horizon
21 Aug 2023 Migration helps housing find a floor
21 Aug 2023 CCCFA rules are now sort of semi-embedded in banks
21 Aug 2023 Loosening CCCFA rules might not be enough
21 Aug 2023 Transitioning an advice business in the 21st century
19 Aug 2023 A new source of business; Nat's KiwiSaver policy nuts
19 Aug 2023 SMEs need more financing but don’t know how to access it
18 Aug 2023 [The Wrap] National's KiwiSaver policy is nuts
18 Aug 2023 Wary investors cast gloom over the NZ sharemarket
18 Aug 2023 Why TAP wants mortgage advisers; Orr tones down behaviour
18 Aug 2023 Asteron Life Claims team acknowledged
18 Aug 2023 Harbour Navigator: Decarbonisation progress – more than hot air?
18 Aug 2023 [DO NOT USE] A big year for medical claims is underway
17 Aug 2023 Skellerup a bright note as NZ sharemarket tumbles
17 Aug 2023 National’s KiwiSaver splitting: innovation or complication?
17 Aug 2023 Expect interest rate hikes
17 Aug 2023 Fund manager diversification: unlocking better risk-adjusted returns in KiwiSaver
17 Aug 2023 National plans to roll back CCCFA and can CoFI
17 Aug 2023 National plans to stop banks’ intrusive questions to borrowers
17 Aug 2023 National floats allowing KiwiSaver splitting
17 Aug 2023 House prices stabilised earlier than RBNZ expected
17 Aug 2023 Reaction to OCR; RBNZ happier than it was before
17 Aug 2023 RBNZ says bank margins are falling on swith to term deposits
16 Aug 2023 NZX 50 dips as Fletcher Building shares slumps
16 Aug 2023 RBNZ expects lower growth and unemployment but higher CPI
16 Aug 2023 OCR remains at 5.50%
16 Aug 2023 BREAKING: Official Cash Rate remains at 5.50%
16 Aug 2023 Holding on to investment property
16 Aug 2023 Survey signals a more ‘dovish’ RBNZ monetary policy statement
16 Aug 2023 ESG pushback nothing new to Super guardians
15 Aug 2023 Life Direct goes into bat for NZ Cricket
15 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket flat as investors await news
15 Aug 2023 New head to take over MFS in September
15 Aug 2023 Lift in sales but prices still declining
15 Aug 2023 Matching rhetoric to reality in values-based investment
15 Aug 2023 Aussie watchdog’s third greenwashing case
14 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket dips despite bright start to earnings season
14 Aug 2023 Mint appoints senior investment analyst
14 Aug 2023 Predictions for OCR announcement
14 Aug 2023 Predictions for this week's OCR announcement
14 Aug 2023 AMP's NZ wealth management doubles KiwiSaver net cashflows
11 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket ends the week with a lift
11 Aug 2023 Bank competition study; RBNZ 2023 Climate Stress Test
11 Aug 2023 ANZ Investments links up with Mercer; CIO leaving
11 Aug 2023 [OPINION] The country needs freedom from crazy council zoning laws
11 Aug 2023 Bank competition study on services, prices and profits
11 Aug 2023 KiwiSaver nudges $100b, Generate celebrates
10 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket drifts on US and China uncertainty
10 Aug 2023 Mint trims costs but profits still fall; Simplicity, Pathfinder, Salt lift revenue
10 Aug 2023 Not as bad as the GFC
10 Aug 2023 Reserve Bank stress tests banks on climate risk
10 Aug 2023 No recession but tough times remain
10 Aug 2023 Times are tough for borrowers, but not as bad as the GFC
10 Aug 2023 Advisers boost Asteron's results
09 Aug 2023 Edgy sharemarket dips ahead of results season
09 Aug 2023 Another CCCFA review; ASB increases profit
09 Aug 2023 ASB annual profit up 6% in a year of two halves
09 Aug 2023 Ex Auckland Airport boss lands at Craigs
09 Aug 2023 Fatigued finance sector wondering about another CCCFA review
09 Aug 2023 First graduates from Fidelity's new adviser programme
09 Aug 2023 [GRTV] Can politicians be bipartisan on KiwiSaver?
08 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket slides as investors digest fast food results
08 Aug 2023 Review of Loadings and Exclusions
08 Aug 2023 Life insurers well placed if shocks hit their industry and economy
08 Aug 2023 Wages rises and number of houses available biggest influences on rents
08 Aug 2023 Downturn slowly running out
08 Aug 2023 First RBNZ life insurance stress test shows industry well placed to withstand severe shocks
08 Aug 2023 Buying the soft-landing scenario
08 Aug 2023 TSB bank closes a third of its branches
08 Aug 2023 TSB closes a third of its branches
08 Aug 2023 Sharesies plans self-selecting KiwiSaver plan
07 Aug 2023 NZ sharemarket flat as Restaurant Brands' shares plummet
07 Aug 2023 The Power of Diversification: Expanding the Investor Toolkit
07 Aug 2023 A step too far
07 Aug 2023 Sales numbers lift from the doldrums but prices drop slightly
07 Aug 2023 Bigger claims can be considered by IFSO scheme
07 Aug 2023 Wage rises squeezed
07 Aug 2023 Amplifi boosts advice business
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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.
2 weeks 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