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October 2004
06 Oct 2004 Trade & enterprise signs for the majestic centre
06 Oct 2004 Companies give investors a bumper year
06 Oct 2004 NZ developer threatened with suspension despite improved results
06 Oct 2004 Govt responds to superannuation report
06 Oct 2004 New broker association being born
05 Oct 2004 Maharey says Govt implementing PRG recommendations
05 Oct 2004 Editorial: State house damage
05 Oct 2004 Owners of land likely to sell after rezoning decision
05 Oct 2004 Luxury lodge plans challenged
05 Oct 2004 Goldfields open to investors
05 Oct 2004 Westpac launches another capital protected fund
04 Oct 2004 Select your own rate home loan
04 Oct 2004 Edwards joins PerpetualTrust
04 Oct 2004 Adviserlink Fundamentals & Processes
04 Oct 2004 Market Review: Can the local sharemarket continue to outperform?
04 Oct 2004 Adviserlink Practice Management
04 Oct 2004 New chief executive at Civic
04 Oct 2004 Thou shalt honour thy head flatmate ...
04 Oct 2004 Financial advice is just a website away
04 Oct 2004 There can be life in dead money - Mary Holm
04 Oct 2004 PEP eyes up rest home operator
04 Oct 2004 Tenants tough on state houses
04 Oct 2004 Select your own rate home loan
04 Oct 2004 ING and Urbus look to merge
04 Oct 2004 Mount Maunganui holiday home goes for $4 million
04 Oct 2004 Retirement operator rides high on demographics
04 Oct 2004 Average homebuilding cost hits $1021/m² as August consent number slips
04 Oct 2004 Prices, sales slowing
04 Oct 2004 Housing consents fall in August
04 Oct 2004 Bear market risk greater, says broker
04 Oct 2004 Building drop fuels fears for economy
04 Oct 2004 News Round Up
01 Oct 2004 October 2004
01 Oct 2004 ASB Bank popular with civil servants
September 2004
30 Sep 2004 How To Buy An Apartment
30 Sep 2004 Tim Gibson: Age will, indeed, weary us
30 Sep 2004 Accor to build new Ibis hotel in Rotorua
30 Sep 2004 Lifestylers to get rates relief
30 Sep 2004 Owners spend up housing equity
30 Sep 2004 Tenant accused of subletting state house for $400 a night
30 Sep 2004 Warnings about investment practices
30 Sep 2004 NZMBA complains about BNZ campaign
30 Sep 2004 NZMBA complains about BNZ campaign
30 Sep 2004 Bruynel joins BNZIM
29 Sep 2004 National hints at keeping NZ Superannuation Fund
29 Sep 2004 The parties super policies
29 Sep 2004 National hints at keeping NZ Superannuation Fund
28 Sep 2004 Rates to peak soon says bank
28 Sep 2004 Kiwi gets Sylvia Park consent
28 Sep 2004 NZX flighty on option trading
28 Sep 2004 Average weekly income on the rise in June quarter
28 Sep 2004 Home Loan Rate Weekly Report
28 Sep 2004 New adviser in Christchurch
28 Sep 2004 Workplace Savings –Hitting the headlines and hidden in the detail
28 Sep 2004 News Round Up
27 Sep 2004 Developers woo locals over new-concept seaside town
27 Sep 2004 All is fair in love and law
27 Sep 2004 Shares beat property: FundSource
27 Sep 2004 Nostalgia for 50s just dreaming
27 Sep 2004 Hard job, shopping for shops
27 Sep 2004 Property problems: Forestry right can separate land from trees
27 Sep 2004 Mastertrusts take return out of risk and return
27 Sep 2004 Commission critical of some finance companies
27 Sep 2004 Third buyer emerges for Finance Centre
27 Sep 2004 Cut-price homes planned for low-paid British workers
27 Sep 2004 Commission critical of some finance companies
27 Sep 2004 New boss aims high for Pioneer
27 Sep 2004 Home loan rate weekly report
27 Sep 2004 Shares beat property: FundSource
26 Sep 2004 Economy still too hot for bank
26 Sep 2004 Inland Revenue's tax avoidance draft welcomed
26 Sep 2004 Canterbury's rural market still hot
26 Sep 2004 Access clients sent refund forms
26 Sep 2004 Economy grows 0.9% in June quarter
26 Sep 2004 Lawyers hammer Building Authority over leaky homes
26 Sep 2004 Pioneer Launches A First For NZ
26 Sep 2004 Consultation on tax changes for NZ-based trusts
26 Sep 2004 Immigration declines
26 Sep 2004 Australia's Ronin Property jumps on takeover talk
26 Sep 2004 Sale of TTP's finance centre to St Laurence falls through
26 Sep 2004 Residents fail in bid to impose liquor ban
26 Sep 2004 Last chance for HNZ tenants
26 Sep 2004 Digs for homeless
26 Sep 2004 Housing project rescue bid stalls
26 Sep 2004 Flood cash boost no rates-saver
26 Sep 2004 Two more Guardians on board
24 Sep 2004 Most of Westpac's changes accepted
24 Sep 2004 GSF looks to international property
23 Sep 2004 GSF looks to international property
23 Sep 2004 New GM for AMP Property Portfolio
23 Sep 2004 Savings report scepticism
23 Sep 2004 Tower looking for CEO
23 Sep 2004 Savings report scepticism
22 Sep 2004 Interest rate hikes to hit hard in a year's time
22 Sep 2004 ING roadshow
22 Sep 2004 Interest rate hikes to hit hard in a year's time
22 Sep 2004 Australia to copy NZ Super Fund idea
22 Sep 2004 Taking a fixed interest position
22 Sep 2004 Growing pressure to protect heritage buildings
22 Sep 2004 Website petition favours retaining reserve baches
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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