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August 2015
10 Aug 2015 Questions to ask fund managers - Investment management
10 Aug 2015 Two lenders cut today
10 Aug 2015 Two advisers get personalised DIMS nod
10 Aug 2015 Fraud would cost adviser authorisation
10 Aug 2015 Rotorua values slowly rising
07 Aug 2015 Getting to know...Peter Lee
07 Aug 2015 Low rates spread across terms
07 Aug 2015 Commissions put pressure on: Report
07 Aug 2015 Submission slams FMA
07 Aug 2015 Mercer given bronze rating
07 Aug 2015 ASB ditches reverse mortgages
07 Aug 2015 MKR star's recipe for property success
06 Aug 2015 Housing shortfall could boost landlords
06 Aug 2015 Milford a test case, lawyer says
05 Aug 2015 C+M payout inches closer
05 Aug 2015 NZX trades up
05 Aug 2015 Has the Auckland market reached its price limit?
05 Aug 2015 Stick with KiwiSaver past 65, AMP urges
05 Aug 2015 Analyst goes independent
05 Aug 2015 ASB urges investors to consider ETFs
05 Aug 2015 Wrap platforms should stick to their knitting: Coplestone
04 Aug 2015 Complectus buys Foundation Corporate Trust
04 Aug 2015 Auckland drags up NZ house prices
04 Aug 2015 International equities exposure offered with no fees
04 Aug 2015 Commission, replacement not an issue, summit hears
04 Aug 2015 Alliance offers back-office support
03 Aug 2015 Our summary on a complex world
03 Aug 2015 Moffatt leaves FMA
03 Aug 2015 Super Fund sticks with growth assets
03 Aug 2015 Chinese buyers not big part of market: Data
03 Aug 2015 Mortgage rates inch lower
03 Aug 2015 Advisers represent less than half of insurance market
03 Aug 2015 Attitudes to advice cost must change
01 Aug 2015 NZAM fully licenced
July 2015
31 Jul 2015 Harbour good students
31 Jul 2015 The truth about investors
31 Jul 2015 Record house price expectations
31 Jul 2015 FMA takes action against Milford trader
31 Jul 2015 HSBC does it again
31 Jul 2015 Now BNZ and Westpac have been beaten
31 Jul 2015 162 offer FAA feedback
30 Jul 2015 Building consents up - but not enough
30 Jul 2015 ANZ calls for action on women's savings
30 Jul 2015 Massey calls for Act overhaul
30 Jul 2015 Silver ratings for AMP KiwiSaver
29 Jul 2015 Lawyer appointed to bank board
29 Jul 2015 High frequency trading has a toxic effect on equities market
29 Jul 2015 More OCR cuts are on the way - RBNZ
29 Jul 2015 RFAs backing call for one law for all
29 Jul 2015 Investor demand set to slow in Auckland
28 Jul 2015 FMA drops Capital + Merchant action
28 Jul 2015 Beware: Green Gardens Finance
28 Jul 2015 What's the best rate you have ever had?
28 Jul 2015 KiwiSaver members told: Don't get spooked
28 Jul 2015 Barnes' firm launches roboadvice offer
28 Jul 2015 Cheap policies capture younger clients: HFANZ
27 Jul 2015 Where will jobs be in 2025?
27 Jul 2015 How to renovate on a shoe-string
27 Jul 2015 Apartments are Auckland’s future
27 Jul 2015 Robo-advice – The regulator’s choice?
27 Jul 2015 BNZ goes way down
27 Jul 2015 Pathfinder banks on property
27 Jul 2015 FSC: All advisers should be equal
25 Jul 2015 [Opinion] Roboadvice - the regulator's choice?
24 Jul 2015 FSC launches commission investigation
24 Jul 2015 Advisers snap up ETFs: NZX
24 Jul 2015 IOOF changes won't cross Tasman
23 Jul 2015 Auckland rents up 7.6% in last year
23 Jul 2015 No surprises in Reserve Bank's move
23 Jul 2015 OCR cut to 3%
23 Jul 2015 OCR cut to 3%
23 Jul 2015 Why the Reserve Bank cut the OCR today
23 Jul 2015 Falling dollar drives returns
23 Jul 2015 Advisers doing no-commission deals
22 Jul 2015 Submissions call for big law changes
22 Jul 2015 Housing market price divergence to slow
21 Jul 2015 The Co-operative Bank makes pre-emptive cuts
21 Jul 2015 Salt adds graduate
21 Jul 2015 AFAs give Nikko a retail boost
21 Jul 2015 Milford fund downgraded
21 Jul 2015 Banks hit LVR brakes
21 Jul 2015 High migration continues
20 Jul 2015 Can you feel the rate cut coming?
20 Jul 2015 [Opinion] Risk commission future not all gloom and doom
20 Jul 2015 Client loyalty may be on the wane
20 Jul 2015 Sweet Smell of Good Buys in Rotorua
19 Jul 2015 Payout hinges on investigations
17 Jul 2015 OCR cut on the cards this week
17 Jul 2015 Robinson gets six years' jail
17 Jul 2015 Churn debate: Reduce conflicts
17 Jul 2015 Westpac doffs its capped rates
17 Jul 2015 Are you digitally connected?
16 Jul 2015 Former AIA executive joins mortgage business
16 Jul 2015 Four eighty nine the new norm
16 Jul 2015 KiwiSaver incentives help advisers
16 Jul 2015 Top 10 Apps for smart landlords
15 Jul 2015 Out of whack Auckland prices lead to data split
15 Jul 2015 The Co-operative Bank makes next move
15 Jul 2015 Review should consider how to attract advisers
15 Jul 2015 Trail commission rules blamed for churn
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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