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June 2014
23 Jun 2014 Asteron completes its executive bench line up
23 Jun 2014 [MRadio] Listen to the latest home loan news
23 Jun 2014 Southern rents soaring
20 Jun 2014 ASB flattens out home loan prices
20 Jun 2014 ASB flattens rates out
20 Jun 2014 Investors grow General Finance
20 Jun 2014 [Weekly Wrap] DIM sins
20 Jun 2014 Small bank moves
20 Jun 2014 Low TD rates help bank profits
20 Jun 2014 Advisers question turnover
20 Jun 2014 Ruler run over regional differences
19 Jun 2014 Westpac finally moves
19 Jun 2014 Labour's KiwiSaver plan welcomed
19 Jun 2014 FMA wants advisers to apply for DIMS licences
19 Jun 2014 Lifestyle block prices 'solid'
18 Jun 2014 Heartland turning around HER business
18 Jun 2014 New DIMS rules out from FMA
18 Jun 2014 Kiwibank joins the movement
18 Jun 2014 Advisers needed regulation: Everett
18 Jun 2014 Sovereign to pay $82m
18 Jun 2014 Cost-effective rebuild option showcased
17 Jun 2014 Super Fund creates CIO role
17 Jun 2014 Govt approves new DIMS rules
17 Jun 2014 Regional centres suffering: Harcourts
16 Jun 2014 Latest mortgage news broadcast available now
16 Jun 2014 Seduced by low inflation
16 Jun 2014 Turnover drops, prices stagnate: REINZ data
16 Jun 2014 NZ among fastest-growing global markets: Survey
15 Jun 2014 Not the New Year markets we were expecting
15 Jun 2014 [MRadio] Listen to the latest home loan news
13 Jun 2014 Regional Review : Tauranga
13 Jun 2014 [Weekly Wrap] What does DIMS really stand for?
13 Jun 2014 OCR: What the economists (and someone else) said
13 Jun 2014 Here come the rate increases
13 Jun 2014 What you actually said, versus what the client heard you say
13 Jun 2014 Reserve Bank defers decision which will hit property investors
13 Jun 2014 Asking prices still at record levels: Realestate.co.nz
12 Jun 2014 Ross seeks early withdrawal
12 Jun 2014 FACTA a fact
12 Jun 2014 Devon goes direct
12 Jun 2014 ANZ first with rate rise
12 Jun 2014 OCR up 25 basis points
12 Jun 2014 What the Reserve Bank said
12 Jun 2014 Stewart aiming to launch NZIG in October
12 Jun 2014 Complaints could be avoided: ISO
12 Jun 2014 Migration may not drive prices as much as expected: RBNZ
11 Jun 2014 TSB adds a market leading (nearly) special
11 Jun 2014 Academic approach to planning
11 Jun 2014 Treat biggest cities as separate markets: Report
10 Jun 2014 KiwiSaver members need reminding about govt tax credits
10 Jun 2014 Latest mortgage news broadcast online now
10 Jun 2014 [MRadio] Listen to the latest home loan news
10 Jun 2014 New president for NZPIF
09 Jun 2014 nib appoints head of distribution
09 Jun 2014 Understanding risk and volatility
09 Jun 2014 All eyes on the OCR
09 Jun 2014 Sections up for online auction
09 Jun 2014 No GST help for leaky building repair costs
06 Jun 2014 More specials
06 Jun 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Thoughts on the Adviser X case
06 Jun 2014 Rates may not rise as quickly as expected: Economists
06 Jun 2014 QV: Rate of increase slowing
06 Jun 2014 Accuro appoints new BDM for the South Island
06 Jun 2014 All quiet on interest rate, and real estate market
06 Jun 2014 Accuro switches rating agencies
05 Jun 2014 NZACU name change
05 Jun 2014 Strategic directors to pay $22m
05 Jun 2014 Ups and downs at TSB
05 Jun 2014 One and done, latest rates call
05 Jun 2014 Advisers promoting ETFs
05 Jun 2014 Market slowing, Barfoot says
04 Jun 2014 How good are NZ insurance products?
04 Jun 2014 The Co-operative Bank makes more cuts
04 Jun 2014 Beware the bank bond offers
04 Jun 2014 Ditching fossil fuels will pay off: Fund manager
04 Jun 2014 Income restrictions not the way forward: NZ Institute
04 Jun 2014 Landlords get tax reminder
04 Jun 2014 Building pace picks up
03 Jun 2014 Listen to the latest home loan news
03 Jun 2014 Expect new qualification in July: NZQA
03 Jun 2014 Prices steady, listings and sales down: Harcourts
03 Jun 2014 Prices will follow turnover: ANZ
02 Jun 2014 [Weekly Wrap] Massive warning to advisers over record-keeping
02 Jun 2014 Code Committee members sought
02 Jun 2014 Investors back restrictions on foreign buyers
01 Jun 2014 [MR Radio] Listen to the latest home loan news
May 2014
30 May 2014 Shift to fixed rates continues
30 May 2014 Good time to fix
30 May 2014 Suppression, supervision for Adviser X
30 May 2014 Westpac makes some moves
30 May 2014 Class DIMS options coming
30 May 2014 Consents trend up
30 May 2014 House price cycle has a long way to go: Alexander
29 May 2014 Adviser X judgement reserved
29 May 2014 St Laurence directors get warning rather than court summon
29 May 2014 Call to limit LVR restrictions to where market hottest
29 May 2014 IRD: Increasing attention for property deals
28 May 2014 ANZ takes 14 points off special
28 May 2014 Adviser X faces disciplinary committee
28 May 2014 Plus4 adds 2
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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