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August 2012
16 Aug 2012 Rodney Hartles responds to judgment
16 Aug 2012 ASB's branded home loans grow
16 Aug 2012 Problems with pension transfer tax proposal
16 Aug 2012 Savings confidence drops despite KiwiSaver growth
16 Aug 2012 ASB comments on home loans
16 Aug 2012 Regional Review: Porirua pulse
16 Aug 2012 Mortgage enquiries up 50 per cent
15 Aug 2012 Blue Star to keep bondholders in the dark after doing their dough
15 Aug 2012 Dorchester noteholders approve early discounted buyback
15 Aug 2012 The risks of pro bono work
15 Aug 2012 Calling all property investors
15 Aug 2012 Acquisition tipped to push transtasman collaboration
15 Aug 2012 No property boom yet: Realestate.co.nz
15 Aug 2012 Number of Auckland industrial vacancies drops
14 Aug 2012 Lifestyle lures Aussie adviser across the Tasman
14 Aug 2012 Former Barclays man to head up Public Trust
14 Aug 2012 Kiwibank's home loan guarantee challenged
14 Aug 2012 Kiwibank challenged; One little change
14 Aug 2012 Lifestyle blocks finding favour
14 Aug 2012 Housing confidence steady, but higher prices tipped: ASB
14 Aug 2012 Guest blog: Time to sort water issues once and for all
13 Aug 2012 Insurers failing to innovate
13 Aug 2012 Olympics end; Special goes
13 Aug 2012 The adviser as translator
13 Aug 2012 Rates round-up: August 13
13 Aug 2012 IRG sells Tauranga advice business
13 Aug 2012 'No case to answer' in Queenstown complaint
13 Aug 2012 Auckland holds on to rent and price premium: MoBIE
12 Aug 2012 Block houses open to view
10 Aug 2012 ASB takes lead in two-year space
10 Aug 2012 [Weekly wrap] A new precedent
10 Aug 2012 Kiwibank KiwiSaver to operate under GMI brand
10 Aug 2012 Court rules adviser personally liable and increases award
10 Aug 2012 Rest of country will catch up to Auckland: Westpac
09 Aug 2012 New chair for Code Committee
09 Aug 2012 Blue Chip investors win Supreme Court victory
09 Aug 2012 Broker Buddle enters plea
09 Aug 2012 Kerry Buddle pleads guilty to non-broking related charges
09 Aug 2012 Adviser business models need shake-up
09 Aug 2012 Blue Chip investors' court victory
09 Aug 2012 Prices strong, sales frequent, QV and REINZ agree
09 Aug 2012 Sellers' market nationwide: Survey
08 Aug 2012 Retirement commissioner does just that - retires
08 Aug 2012 Changes at the top for Cigna Life
08 Aug 2012 Former adviser begins $15m fraud trial
08 Aug 2012 The Block - A good investment?
08 Aug 2012 Peters targets FSC over Super stance
08 Aug 2012 Positive signs for big property investors
08 Aug 2012 Auckland boundary shift welcomed
07 Aug 2012 Asteron's new executive manager claims and underwriting
07 Aug 2012 Harbour: Believe me, it will be enough
07 Aug 2012 AFAs risk suspension
07 Aug 2012 'Trial by media' totally unfair: REINZ
07 Aug 2012 The Block: Show us the numbers
07 Aug 2012 No winter chill for sellers: Realestate.co.nz
07 Aug 2012 Top agents get recognition
06 Aug 2012 Westpac fires shot
06 Aug 2012 New man for advisers’ at Man
06 Aug 2012 Health insurance numbers stabilise
06 Aug 2012 Rates round-up: August 6
06 Aug 2012 AAA reaches agreement with AMP
06 Aug 2012 Apartments finding favour: Bayleys
06 Aug 2012 Landlords slow to take up insulation subsidy
06 Aug 2012 New purchase agreement tackles building reports
05 Aug 2012 Kiwibank takes lead with new 18 month rate
03 Aug 2012 Suncorp adds light to Asteron's ratings
03 Aug 2012 Peter Rourke to leave Accuro
03 Aug 2012 [Weekly wrap] Hotchin breaks his silence
03 Aug 2012 Lo-doc lending back again
03 Aug 2012 Orange Finance in receivership
03 Aug 2012 Hotchin slams FMA over civil case
03 Aug 2012 Financial advisers ‘low risk’ for money laundering
03 Aug 2012 No cheap houses being built: English
03 Aug 2012 Bank stats show we're a nation buying houses
03 Aug 2012 Inventory at lowest level in seven years
02 Aug 2012 Partners axes upfront medical insurance commission, ups premiums
02 Aug 2012 Housing market set to become frothy
02 Aug 2012 IFA marks out its future
02 Aug 2012 David Gordon takes on advisory management role
02 Aug 2012 Boom pushes prices further out of reach: Study
02 Aug 2012 BondAssist scheme attracts interest
01 Aug 2012 Mortgage holders storm out of floating rates
01 Aug 2012 Advisers’ biggest competitor hobbled
01 Aug 2012 Two-year fixed rates attract borrowers
01 Aug 2012 Two year rates attracting borrowers
01 Aug 2012 Million-dollar sales return to peak level
01 Aug 2012 Westpac issues warnings
July 2012
31 Jul 2012 Are we seeing the beginning of a new global recession?
31 Jul 2012 AAA positive on AMP contract issue
31 Jul 2012 Westpac still favours fixed home loan rates
31 Jul 2012 Property predictions prompt anger
31 Jul 2012 Property investment loses appeal, except in Auckland
30 Jul 2012 F&P Finance gets new chairman
30 Jul 2012 Tower remains at A-
30 Jul 2012 News Round Up: July 30
30 Jul 2012 Rates round-up: July 30
30 Jul 2012 Australia looks attractive to advisers...nearly
30 Jul 2012 Building consent figures rise
30 Jul 2012 More land 'not the answer'
30 Jul 2012 Banks agrees prices are too high
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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