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August 2016
22 Aug 2016 Who is the lowest of them all?
22 Aug 2016 Finding solutions to 60% LVRs
22 Aug 2016 AMP Capital's two latest appointments
22 Aug 2016 Client interests: first, best or last?
22 Aug 2016 Stacey loses Diversified fight
22 Aug 2016 Welcome mat for pets
21 Aug 2016 Stewart 70% of way towards capital raising target
19 Aug 2016 Sue Brown moves on to new business
19 Aug 2016 NZFAA backs new association
19 Aug 2016 AIA launches Healthy Kids Challenge
19 Aug 2016 Life insurance adviser's warning 'a message'
18 Aug 2016 AMP reports earnings lift
18 Aug 2016 Finding solutions to investor LVR
18 Aug 2016 Finding solutions to 60% LVRs
18 Aug 2016 Reduce tax bill by giving PIEs a miss
18 Aug 2016 Term deposits offered via Consilium platform
17 Aug 2016 OCR cuts coming, but later - BNZ
17 Aug 2016 Yields sink to record low
17 Aug 2016 What are your big questions about insurance?
17 Aug 2016 Mortgage fraudster heading to prison
17 Aug 2016 HSBC offers lowest ever home loan rate
17 Aug 2016 HSBC breaks record with with new low home loan rate
17 Aug 2016 More needed to meet Unitary Plan goals
17 Aug 2016 SuperLife shines for NZX
17 Aug 2016 Performance fees' days may be numbered
17 Aug 2016 'Client's best interests' doesn't have to mean cheapest
16 Aug 2016 Survey - Bad time to buy a house
16 Aug 2016 Steep decline in buyer sentiment - ASB
16 Aug 2016 AMP launches QROPS product
16 Aug 2016 Forsyth Barr drops performance fees
15 Aug 2016 Auckland Council votes for Unitary Plan
15 Aug 2016 Rules for bankrupt KiwiSaver members cause concern
15 Aug 2016 How to achieve top dollar: lessons from The Block
15 Aug 2016 Property managers must keep rent separate
15 Aug 2016 Study to assess ways to help KiwiSaver members get better results
15 Aug 2016 New levies final nail for independent DIMS providers
15 Aug 2016 Pre-approvals hold RBNZ up
15 Aug 2016 Call for more scrutiny of regulators
14 Aug 2016 China recreates the Mississippi Bubble
13 Aug 2016 NZSF gets tick
12 Aug 2016 New LVR start date delayed
12 Aug 2016 Age-friendly housing pays off
12 Aug 2016 RBNZ defers start date for new LVR restriction
12 Aug 2016 Lending Crowd wants to raise $5m
12 Aug 2016 Income drop sign of move to slow, steady growth for Partners
12 Aug 2016 From loans to mortgages
12 Aug 2016 AMP Capital appoints new investment strategy boss
12 Aug 2016 Greens rental Bill could put off landlords - NZPIF
12 Aug 2016 Only three move so far
12 Aug 2016 Banks secure hold on KiwiSaver
11 Aug 2016 Tenants’ rights take centre stage
11 Aug 2016 Borrowers unlikely to see full cut
11 Aug 2016 More cuts on the horizon
11 Aug 2016 Commission files charges against Youi insurance
11 Aug 2016 More cuts on the horizon
11 Aug 2016 The Clayton's rate cut
11 Aug 2016 Early signs of easing price pressure
11 Aug 2016 OCR cut to 2%; Here's what they said
11 Aug 2016 What the Reserve Bank said about interest rates
11 Aug 2016 FMA launches next stage of churn probe
11 Aug 2016 RESIMAC partners with financial advisory firm
11 Aug 2016 Grosvenor takes aim at banks with new KiwiSaver product
11 Aug 2016 Asteron keeps focus on sustainability
11 Aug 2016 AMP repricing units to deal with tax bill
11 Aug 2016 Boosting supply crucial to final Unitary Plan decision
10 Aug 2016 Auckland house prices not a concern: ASB boss
10 Aug 2016 Low interest rates driving customers to wealth products: ASB
10 Aug 2016 Milford manager jumps ship
10 Aug 2016 ASB profits up; Not worried about Auckland house prices
10 Aug 2016 PM tells banks what to do
10 Aug 2016 Insurance site set for launch
10 Aug 2016 Advisers 'must shake off product ties'
10 Aug 2016 Limited supply drives prices up further
09 Aug 2016 Camelot adds advisers
09 Aug 2016 Mortgage Express appoint new regional manager
09 Aug 2016 Housing market simmering down?
09 Aug 2016 Govt should bear more of FMA funding cost: IFA
09 Aug 2016 Tool helps analyse portfolios
09 Aug 2016 Bridging finance not an LVR issue
09 Aug 2016 Smooth passage of Unitary Plan in doubt
08 Aug 2016 Quieter times ahead for housing market - ASB
08 Aug 2016 Odds of rate cut about the same as Hurricanes winning final
08 Aug 2016 Stewart seeks more capital to fund growth
08 Aug 2016 Balancing act: how to handle the housing market
05 Aug 2016 Winners and losers
05 Aug 2016 RESIMAC makes important changes to rates and fees (+ VIDEO)
05 Aug 2016 Little doubt OCR cut coming
05 Aug 2016 RESIMAC has lowered rates
05 Aug 2016 Fisher dividend up
05 Aug 2016 No tenant liability under new rules
05 Aug 2016 Craigs joins NZX platform
05 Aug 2016 Financial services provider 'should be allowed to follow law'
05 Aug 2016 AML still tough for some AFAs
04 Aug 2016 Morningstar's Chris Douglas returns
04 Aug 2016 Apartment size key to future lending
04 Aug 2016 LVR to target bank risk, not prices
04 Aug 2016 Adviser numbers drop
04 Aug 2016 Banks too dominant in KiwiSaver: Survey
04 Aug 2016 Bank risk real LVR target
04 Aug 2016 Apartment size key to future lending
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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