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July 2024
03 Jul 2024 New code brings commonsense to lending - FSF
03 Jul 2024 RBNZ needs to start cutting; Mortgages and cars – the two should not go together
03 Jul 2024 Inflation dragon slain; RBNZ needs to start cutting
03 Jul 2024 Strategi Group appoints head of AML/CFT
02 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket drifts lower amid sliding business confidence
02 Jul 2024 Mortgages and cars – the two should not go together
02 Jul 2024 FNZ's global expansion plans come at a price
02 Jul 2024 Select committee against bill to limit use of KiwiSaver as part of pay package
01 Jul 2024 NZ sharemarket boosted by energy stocks, Fletcher
01 Jul 2024 Latest RBNZ figures show lending stock bounds ahead
01 Jul 2024 5 questions for the new owners of Castle Point
01 Jul 2024 Lending stock bounds ahead
June 2024
27 Jun 2024 NZ sharemarket falls 1% ahead of long weekend
27 Jun 2024 [The Wrap] FNZ: A story which needs telling
27 Jun 2024 Why Resi closed up
27 Jun 2024 Nikko appoints BDM to drive growth
27 Jun 2024 Predictions cut for rising house prices
27 Jun 2024 Why Resimac closed up shop in NZ
27 Jun 2024 FANZ: all life insurance contracts should be consumer contracts
27 Jun 2024 When to use a Golden Life policy and changes that could be made
26 Jun 2024 NZ sharemarket surges 1%
26 Jun 2024 Proposals on conduct reform could impact M&As, civil liberty
26 Jun 2024 Pyramid scheme promoter ordered to pay fine totalling millions of dollars
25 Jun 2024 NZ sharemarket up 0.76%
25 Jun 2024 Code Committee proposes changes
25 Jun 2024 Bizcap's billion; Code standard changes
24 Jun 2024 NZ sharemarket down following Warehouse downgrade
24 Jun 2024 Bizcap cracks $1 bill mark and adds LOC product
24 Jun 2024 Interest rate cuts might be nearer than thought - Kiwibank
24 Jun 2024 Interest rate cuts might be nearer than thought
24 Jun 2024 US Equities – simply momentum or something more fundamental
23 Jun 2024 Fidelity Life makes mortgage cover enhancements
23 Jun 2024 Alternative to first home grant
21 Jun 2024 NZX 50 ends the week down 1.5% in flurry of index reweighting
21 Jun 2024 KiwiSaver reform next steps - bail up a politician
21 Jun 2024 AMP adds term deposits
21 Jun 2024 Resimac blind-sides advisers
21 Jun 2024 Resimac pulling out of New Zealand
20 Jun 2024 NZ shares rally as economy edges out of recession
20 Jun 2024 Industry veteran dies
20 Jun 2024 Observations from the FAP monitoring insights report
20 Jun 2024 Growing number of property investment dollars moving across the ditch
20 Jun 2024 NZHL says NZ should keep commission-based payment; Squeezed between a rock and a hard place
20 Jun 2024 NZHL says NZ should keep commission-based payment
20 Jun 2024 Squeezed between a rock and a hard place
20 Jun 2024 Market could be near a tipping point
19 Jun 2024 NZ shares fall as tight rate outlook sharpens focus on GDP
19 Jun 2024 Smartshares appoints new GM of business development and distribution
19 Jun 2024 Portals for home loan applications?
19 Jun 2024 New climate reports will give investors a different perspective
19 Jun 2024 [Opinion] Encouraging business owners to seek financial advice is good business
19 Jun 2024 Jasper joins trust
19 Jun 2024 PIC Insurance Brokers partners with RE/MAX New Zealand
19 Jun 2024 FMA offers CoFI support
19 Jun 2024 Portals for home loan applications? Be careful what you wish for
18 Jun 2024 NZ shares gain as Infratil rallies on fresh capital
18 Jun 2024 Don't fix what ain't broke
18 Jun 2024 FAMNZ to ComCom: don't fix what ain't broke
17 Jun 2024 Infratil to raise $1.15b as NZ market sinks
17 Jun 2024 ANZ bank says it doesn't discriminate against mortgage advisers
17 Jun 2024 Consilium picks up $65 mill mandate
17 Jun 2024 Ethical investment course coming for advisers
17 Jun 2024 Early adopter investors can make money from AI
17 Jun 2024 Fight to regulate property managers far from over
17 Jun 2024 ANZ says it doesn't discriminate against mortgage advisers
17 Jun 2024 Against all odds? Investment markets punch out strong returns amid share market bounce
17 Jun 2024 Singapore investor takes stake in Betashares
14 Jun 2024 Steel & Tube dampens NZ sharemarket
14 Jun 2024 Game-changing Boost Business Loan Bridges Vital Market Gap
14 Jun 2024 [DO NOT USE] Game-changing Boost Business Loan Bridges Vital Market Gap
14 Jun 2024 The small business lending space gets another player
14 Jun 2024 Lessons from a silent housing crash
13 Jun 2024 NZ sharemarket joins in on US-led rally
13 Jun 2024 Unfunded medicines - You don't know it as well as you think
13 Jun 2024 Mindful Money Awards celebrates leaders
13 Jun 2024 PG parts ways with Castle Point founder Richard Stubbs
13 Jun 2024 Super Fund gets acting CIO
13 Jun 2024 The importance of emotional intelligence
12 Jun 2024 NZ market falls, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare bolsters trading
12 Jun 2024 FMA sues Booster over wine investments
12 Jun 2024 New FANZ head sees a "resilient" financial advice industry
12 Jun 2024 Ballantyne joins dealer group
11 Jun 2024 Tower update steadies NZ sharemarket
11 Jun 2024 Kiwibank facing criminal charges over overcharging customers
11 Jun 2024 Kiwibank facing criminal charges
11 Jun 2024 ASIC gets third greenwashing conviction
10 Jun 2024 NZ sharemarket dips on light trading
10 Jun 2024 Against all odds? Investment markets punch out strong returns amid share market bounce
10 Jun 2024 Big week for cuts and ANZ tweaks forecast; Initiative launched to grow number of female advisers
10 Jun 2024 Big week for cuts and ANZ tweaks forecast
10 Jun 2024 val
10 Jun 2024 Policyholders between 50 and 59 cost AIA the most in claims
10 Jun 2024 Kernel passes milestone, onboards advisers wanting KiwiSaver for accumulators
09 Jun 2024 Fidelity Life Career connect scholarship recipients aim to boost adviser diversity
08 Jun 2024 Financial markets: Calm seas never made a skilled a sailor
08 Jun 2024 Initiative launched to grow number of female advisers
07 Jun 2024 NZ sharemarket takes late dive
07 Jun 2024 NZFSG adds technology and innovation leader to its board
07 Jun 2024 Short fixed terms continue to be the most popular
07 Jun 2024 Short fixed terms continue popularity
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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