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July 2024
31 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket edges up on end of month trading
31 Jul 2024 First Mortgage Trust creates another new role
31 Jul 2024 Fads, trends, and megatrends
31 Jul 2024 Construction finance company gets new facility
31 Jul 2024 First Mortgage Trust creates another new role
31 Jul 2024 Survey: demand growing for adviser expertise on ethical investing
30 Jul 2024 NZX up more than 0.5% as weak dollar boosts some stocks
30 Jul 2024 Fisher Funds gets into private equity
30 Jul 2024 Quotemonster adds KiwiSaver comparison and research
29 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket down 0.29%
29 Jul 2024 nib gets a new leader
29 Jul 2024 June quarter wholesale fund returns were a mixed bag
29 Jul 2024 Better year for Milford
29 Jul 2024 Will we decline a quarter of IP applicants on their income source?
27 Jul 2024 Election Cycles and Investment returns
26 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket closes week down 0.38%
26 Jul 2024 GenAI How to Guide: Part 1
26 Jul 2024 New chapter for Fisher Funds
26 Jul 2024 Partners nabs Southern Cross exec
26 Jul 2024 [GRTV] FMA monitoring gives FAPs eight out of 10
25 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket down over 1%
25 Jul 2024 New guidance for client money and property services brokers
25 Jul 2024 Embracing GenAI: A Roadmap for NZ Financial Services Companies - Part 1
25 Jul 2024 Stewardship limitations call for a more strategic approach
24 Jul 2024 KiwiSaver finally gets personal
24 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket marches higher, up 6.4% this year
24 Jul 2024 Non-bank lender secures funding line from Westpac NZ
24 Jul 2024 Non-bank lender secures funding line from Westpac
24 Jul 2024 Kōura spawns new role
24 Jul 2024 Harbour puts out first stewardship report as sustainability round up
23 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket up nearly 1% amid ongoing takeover drama
23 Jul 2024 Deloitte: shared equity schemes could arrest declining home ownership
23 Jul 2024 Pre-approvals not turned off; Shared equity could be the answer
23 Jul 2024 Predictions for OCR cut next month - ASB
23 Jul 2024 Mortgage pre-approvals stopped
23 Jul 2024 Are financial markets too complacent about geopolitical risks?
22 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket down 0.1% amid takeovers
22 Jul 2024 Predictions for OCR cut next month
19 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket flat ahead of weekend
19 Jul 2024 [GRTV] From infantry to insurance, protection is a common thread
19 Jul 2024 Passive approach pays off for Simplicity's KiwiSaver investors
19 Jul 2024 Financial Services Federation targets mortgage advisers as affiliate members
18 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket flat, on track for monthly return of over 5%
18 Jul 2024 Understanding of financial fairness measured; ANZ Fixed Home Loan rates change
18 Jul 2024 Understanding of financial fairness measured
18 Jul 2024 Salt goes lighter on NZ equities in both growth and income funds
17 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket reaches 29-month high
17 Jul 2024 Flint Wealth investment platform forced to close
17 Jul 2024 Misconception about banks willingness to lend wrong
17 Jul 2024 Perpetual changes bathwater at Castle Point
16 Jul 2024 The Adviser Platform turns on the tap and adds two new staff
16 Jul 2024 Fidelity says its new e-app already making a difference
16 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket hits 17-month high
16 Jul 2024 KiwiSaver highly competitive with much larger Aussie and British peers
15 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket flat amid international turmoil
15 Jul 2024 ANZ stays active and replaces one manager
15 Jul 2024 Distance between inflation and RBNZ’s target narrows; SBS rates change
15 Jul 2024 Distance between inflation and RBNZ’s target narrows
12 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket has its best week of 2024
12 Jul 2024 A new way to eat a home
12 Jul 2024 Are trauma products still fit-for-purpose?
12 Jul 2024 Another lean year for Salt, Mint and NZ Funds Management
11 Jul 2024 Optimism lifts the NZ sharemarket
11 Jul 2024 Calling all Hawkes Bay advisers
11 Jul 2024 Resimac’s withdrawal from market hard to understand
11 Jul 2024 One bank cuts home loan rates
11 Jul 2024 Another lean year for Salt, Mint and NZ Funds Management
11 Jul 2024 [GRTV] Rick Willis shares MDRT secrets
11 Jul 2024 Economists rush to update their forecasts
11 Jul 2024 Economists rush to update their forecasts
11 Jul 2024 Economists rush to update their forecasts
10 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket rises on RBNZ's dovish stance
10 Jul 2024 RBNZ holds OCR but turns unexpectedly dovish
10 Jul 2024 BREAKING: OCR remains at 5.50% - Inflation Approaching Target Range
10 Jul 2024 BREAKING: OCR 5.50% - Inflation Approaching Target Range
10 Jul 2024 Expectation of November rate cuts prompts record short rate borrowing
10 Jul 2024 Expectation of Nov rate cuts prompts record short rate borrowing
10 Jul 2024 Meeting half-way
09 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket up almost 1%
09 Jul 2024 Assets trump salary for Kiwi investors
09 Jul 2024 Life insurance products MIA
08 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket falls nearly 0.5% at the start of a pivotal week
08 Jul 2024 Reserve Bank expected to stick to its knitting; Banks bringing OCR cut expectations forward
08 Jul 2024 Reserve Bank expected to stick to its knitting
08 Jul 2024 Treasury outlines likely costs of financial institution failures
08 Jul 2024 Newton Ross joins NZXWT
05 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket up 0.4% to end the week
05 Jul 2024 KiwiSaver Fees lower than Australia and UK
05 Jul 2024 Investing Wisdom: 4 Invaluable lessons from my time in the markets
05 Jul 2024 Banks bringing OCR cut expectations forward
04 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket down, Oz and US stocks climb
04 Jul 2024 Why nothing else?
04 Jul 2024 [Podcast] TMM Ep2 Hamish Patel - mortgagesonline
04 Jul 2024 New code brings commonsense to lending; Massive liberalisation of planning rules to end housing woes
04 Jul 2024 Massive liberalisation of planning rules to end housing woes
04 Jul 2024 Graeme Lindsay: death of a life industry stalwart
04 Jul 2024 TE sells another business unit
04 Jul 2024 FMA censures financial advice group
03 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket up 0.1% on flat trading day
03 Jul 2024 Climate reporting not yet backed by climate action
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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