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August 2020
26 Aug 2020 Shares rise, cyber attack interrupts trading
26 Aug 2020 Borrowing boom in July – before second lockdown
26 Aug 2020 Sub-2% mortgages to boost house prices: ASB
26 Aug 2020 Rental growth slows; CFML floating rate cut
26 Aug 2020 Stubbs: Take KiwiSaver fees issue to court
25 Aug 2020 Network issue cuts bullish day short
25 Aug 2020 No rent growth for first time in three years
25 Aug 2020 Negative OCR would be a mistake: Kiwibank
25 Aug 2020 Negative OCR would be a mistake: Kiwibank
25 Aug 2020 FMA not backing an investment style despite report
25 Aug 2020 Election watch: What the US race means for investors
24 Aug 2020 Wall Street leads property stocks higher
24 Aug 2020 Buying insurance can be a reassuringly normal thing to achieve
24 Aug 2020 Routine inspection pays off
24 Aug 2020 Mixed response to government business loan scheme
24 Aug 2020 AMP makes top-level changes amid allegations
24 Aug 2020 Nib braces for rush of treatments next year
24 Aug 2020 Mixed response to Business Finance Guarantee Scheme
24 Aug 2020 FMA releases active versus passive report
24 Aug 2020 Money Week an opportunity to reach out, Financial Advice NZ says
24 Aug 2020 Adviser calls to ditch default schemes
22 Aug 2020 Advisers offered support package
21 Aug 2020 NZ shares rise on bullish earnings
21 Aug 2020 Asteron Life profit drops
21 Aug 2020 Reverse mortgages an option for struggling borrowers?; Investor market share increases
21 Aug 2020 Start date for regime unlikely to change again
20 Aug 2020 Heavyweight stocks drag market down
20 Aug 2020 Reverse mortgages an option for struggling borrowers: Heartland
20 Aug 2020 Simplicity launches 2.25% floating rate
20 Aug 2020 Investors' market share on the rise
20 Aug 2020 ANZ puts aside $79 million for bad loans; Tenancy reforms become law
20 Aug 2020 AIA reveals grant winners
20 Aug 2020 Treasury, MBIE mull options for KiwiSaver default scheme
19 Aug 2020 Investors hit pause on market rally. Find out why.
19 Aug 2020 Super Fund scores As for responsible investment
19 Aug 2020 Court of Appeal backs Asteron Life in battle with former broker
19 Aug 2020 ANZ sets aside an extra $79 million for bad loans
19 Aug 2020 Changes to RTA now in force
19 Aug 2020 BNZ joins rivals with negative OCR forecast
19 Aug 2020 Election not an issue for property buyers & sellers
19 Aug 2020 FinTech expert bolsters Mosaic FSI advisory board
19 Aug 2020 Mike Pero Mortgages makes new hires; How can the market operate at level three?
19 Aug 2020 Mike Pero Mortgages makes new appointments
19 Aug 2020 Advisers to be offered branded investment platforms
18 Aug 2020 Shares rise, dollar softens as negative cash rate predicted
18 Aug 2020 Data supports markets
18 Aug 2020 TSB launches 2.49% one year rate; OCR predicted to go negative
18 Aug 2020 Negative OCR on the way: ASB and ANZ
18 Aug 2020 Analysts pick Covid-19 losers on NZX
17 Aug 2020 Shares rise as negative interest rates loom
17 Aug 2020 Mortgage deferral scheme extended to March
17 Aug 2020 Deferral scheme extended to March
17 Aug 2020 COMMENT: Real estate possible at level three
17 Aug 2020 Aon to offer free wills in a new deal with Footprint
17 Aug 2020 Advisers ready for extended lockdown; Wairarapa Building Society cuts rates
17 Aug 2020 Advisers ready for extended lockdown
17 Aug 2020 What does ‘treat fairly’ mean in new conduct law?
17 Aug 2020 Covid-19 driving financial services change: McEwan
17 Aug 2020 FSCL says client complaint a non-disclosure warning
17 Aug 2020 MMC lands new investment manager
17 Aug 2020 Public Trust appoints CFO
14 Aug 2020 Credit Suisse and Jarden end their relationship
14 Aug 2020 Domestic bellwether stock Freightways leds NZX lower
14 Aug 2020 Vernon steps into AMP Australia role - for a while
14 Aug 2020 Pepper updates its online mortgage selector tool
14 Aug 2020 Covid-19 return could derail market boom
14 Aug 2020 Why mortgage rates are likely to fall even lower
14 Aug 2020 AMP reports profit drop amid 'solid' result
13 Aug 2020 NZ shares flat as tech rally balances covid fears
13 Aug 2020 Why mortgage rates are likely to fall even lower
13 Aug 2020 Mortgage deferrals to be extended as Reserve Bank tries to push down rates
13 Aug 2020 a2: could the milk be starting to turn?
13 Aug 2020 Advisers adjust to heightened alert levels
12 Aug 2020 Reserve Bank measures limit virus-driven stock slide
12 Aug 2020 Mortgage deferral programme to be extended
12 Aug 2020 Mortgage deferral programme to be extended: Orr
12 Aug 2020 OCR on hold but QE expanded to $100 billion
12 Aug 2020 OCR decision revealed
12 Aug 2020 How Covid-19 has impacted Partners Life
12 Aug 2020 The return of Covid-19: what it means for landlords
12 Aug 2020 Advisers brace for second lockdown; ASB profits drop 20%; OCR decision later
12 Aug 2020 Advisers prepare for second lockdown
12 Aug 2020 ASB profits drop 20%
12 Aug 2020 Record gold prices 'could go higher'
11 Aug 2020 Sharemarket investors go bargain hunting
11 Aug 2020 New advisers join Loan Market
11 Aug 2020 How elections impact on the market
11 Aug 2020 Kainga Ora rate cuts; Greens propose further tenancy reforms
11 Aug 2020 Financial advice makes NZers better off
10 Aug 2020 Local market in lock-step with ASX
10 Aug 2020 Greens propose more landlord regulations
10 Aug 2020 OCR preview: all eyes on quantitative easing; SBS rate cuts
10 Aug 2020 OCR Preview: All eyes on quantitative easing
10 Aug 2020 [GRTV] Too many KiwiSaver managers not adding value
10 Aug 2020 MMC adds to its executive team
10 Aug 2020 Win for financial advisers as CoFI tweaked
10 Aug 2020 Free financial advice on offer
07 Aug 2020 Fidelity Life adds to board
07 Aug 2020 Energy sector leads sharemarket lower
07 Aug 2020 Mint strengthens SRI rating with UNPRI
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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