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September 2019
06 Sep 2019 [The Wrap] Let's not follow what's happening in Australia
06 Sep 2019 RBNZ says don't believe what banks say about capital
05 Sep 2019 Findex takes on New Zealand wealth market
05 Sep 2019 Low deposits won’t lead to mortgage free for all
05 Sep 2019 Shares march higher as low rates keep yield attractive
05 Sep 2019 Partners Life axes volume-based incentives
05 Sep 2019 COMMENT: How much is too much
05 Sep 2019 Kloogh no longer a financial adviser
04 Sep 2019 Sharemarket cracks another milestone; Vista, Pushpay recover
04 Sep 2019 Rent-to-buy scheme key to KiwiBuild II
04 Sep 2019 Govt makes KiwiBuild loans easier, drops 100,000 homes target
04 Sep 2019 Govt makes KiwiBuild loans easier, drops 100,000 homes target
04 Sep 2019 IFSO backs adviser in misselling claim
04 Sep 2019 Fidelity Life appoints adviser professional development support
04 Sep 2019 Negative bank rates – yeah right!
04 Sep 2019 Decline in value growth slows
03 Sep 2019 Fraud bureau not right strategy for personal risk market
03 Sep 2019 NZ shares outperform Asia; Contact, Meridian in demand
03 Sep 2019 No momentum in Auckland sales
03 Sep 2019 Hints of market resurgence
03 Sep 2019 Taking the carbon out of KiwiSaver
03 Sep 2019 Kloogh companies liquidated
02 Sep 2019 [The Wrap] Regulation is a time for advisers to be bold and reinvent themselves
02 Sep 2019 NZ shares gain; yield stocks Contact, Meridian still in favour
02 Sep 2019 Which KiwiSaver funds will weather the currency war?
02 Sep 2019 Super Fund gets RI rating
02 Sep 2019 Kepa appoints compliance consultant
02 Sep 2019 HSBC sets new low rate
02 Sep 2019 HSBC sets a new low benchmark
02 Sep 2019 Pie Funds reopens soft-closed funds
02 Sep 2019 Mortgage servicing rate cuts
August 2019
30 Aug 2019 Vista recovers in heavy day of trading
30 Aug 2019 Spreads between lenders widens
30 Aug 2019 Mike Pero appoints three advisers
30 Aug 2019 Long term fixed rates dip below 4%
30 Aug 2019 More work needs to be done on policy ownership
30 Aug 2019 Gisborne grows up
30 Aug 2019 InvestNow opens platform to advisers
30 Aug 2019 [Obituary] Mike Loftus
30 Aug 2019 Commercial property focus for new non-bank lender
29 Aug 2019 Forsyth Barr acquires advice firm
29 Aug 2019 Investors savage Vista after it misses earnings target
29 Aug 2019 Kiwibank's shareholders green-light capital-hungry growth plans
29 Aug 2019 AMP credit rating cut
29 Aug 2019 Build-to-rent momentum grows
29 Aug 2019 Prospa increases loan size
29 Aug 2019 Prospa NZ outstrips Australia
29 Aug 2019 Ambitious Australian trustee firm makes kiwi push
28 Aug 2019 AIA says Vitality is flying as another insurer tries to shoot it down
28 Aug 2019 Sargon launches trustee platform, plans advice
28 Aug 2019 NZ shares rise; F&P Healthcare jumps on modest earnings upgrade
28 Aug 2019 [OPINION] We are not alone with Monetary Policy: Orr
28 Aug 2019 Slashing OCR has worked, economist says
28 Aug 2019 Helping the self-employed get mortgages
28 Aug 2019 COMMENT: The dangers of neglecting code compliance certificates
28 Aug 2019 Partners: Nominated beneficiaries too much of a grey area
28 Aug 2019 Financial advisers want KiwiSaver to get SMarT
27 Aug 2019 NZ shares recover; demand for yield boosts Meridian, Spark
27 Aug 2019 ANZ sets new low; Are property investors back?
27 Aug 2019 The staggered rise of big city rents
27 Aug 2019 BNZ's wealth shakeup
26 Aug 2019 Trump's trade tweets drive NZ shares lower; Freightways caution weighs
26 Aug 2019 Are property investors returning to the market?
26 Aug 2019 Working out the value of your business
26 Aug 2019 AIA appoints leader for IFA channel
26 Aug 2019 Take your seat at table, advisers told
26 Aug 2019 Housing market confidence growing
26 Aug 2019 Astute finally confirms Campbell's departure; SBS cuts rates
26 Aug 2019 rwc
26 Aug 2019 Old school digital advice failed advisers, but there are new options emerging
26 Aug 2019 AIA Vitality Fittest City report: Let’s get moving
26 Aug 2019 Campbell leaves Astute Financial
25 Aug 2019 Faafoi says some commissions will be banned
24 Aug 2019 Hobson gets back onboard NZX platform
23 Aug 2019 [The Wrap] Introducing the new type of financial adviser (Not)
23 Aug 2019 Yield stocks sold off; Skellerup drops
23 Aug 2019 Fred Dodds acknowledged for his services to financial advisers
23 Aug 2019 Kiwibank's annual profit eases as fee income drops
23 Aug 2019 Relationship break-up not cause to end tenancy, tribunal says
23 Aug 2019 Top mortgage advisers named; HSBC moves rates
23 Aug 2019 Three leading ladies awarded
23 Aug 2019 Financial Advice NZ adds members, focuses on getting voice heard
22 Aug 2019 NZ shares gain as Ebos, Air NZ earnings meet expectations
22 Aug 2019 Anderson launches new fund options
21 Aug 2019 Big Wednesday: A2 squeezed over margins; Fletcher and Spark shine
21 Aug 2019 New policy to address “failing” cities
21 Aug 2019 Low rates boost NZ’s housing affordability
21 Aug 2019 New BDMs at Resimac, Bluestone, FMT
21 Aug 2019 Two new BDMs for First Mortgage Trust
21 Aug 2019 Bluestone brings in new BDM
21 Aug 2019 New BDM for Resimac
21 Aug 2019 Harvesting Black Swans
21 Aug 2019 nib NZ has risk and culture review on the radar
20 Aug 2019 Napier Port has promising debut; NZ shares rise
20 Aug 2019 A tale of two cities prices
20 Aug 2019 Latest on Harmoney legal case; new guidelines for landlords
20 Aug 2019 [GRTV] Why a four day week is good; Fears about markets
20 Aug 2019 KiwiSaver providers question loss-making assumptions
19 Aug 2019 NZ shares gain as tweaked earnings outlooks boost A2, weigh on Fletcher
19 Aug 2019 It's mostly up for health insurer nib
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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