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June 2025
26 Jun 2025 Unsecured and uncomplicated: BNZ targets SME growth
26 Jun 2025 New unsecured loan offer as BNZ chases SME market
26 Jun 2025 A fresh move from Kiwibank
26 Jun 2025 Business funding landscape change
26 Jun 2025 NZFSG adds new head of insurance distribution
26 Jun 2025 How much Shaw paid for a majority stake in ISG
26 Jun 2025 New FMA report warns of customer protection gaps
26 Jun 2025 AI provider to KiwiSaver secures funding
25 Jun 2025 NZ sharemarket flat despite export growth, Fletcher Building down again
25 Jun 2025 Beady eye on bad behaviour: FMA targets unethical advisers
25 Jun 2025 Advisers’ fraudulent activity to be rooted out by FMA
25 Jun 2025 Advisers fear customer backlash as premiums soar
25 Jun 2025 Less pressure, more choice: the market’s turning
25 Jun 2025 Never a better time in four years for first home buyers
25 Jun 2025 NZHL strengthens leadership with GM appointment
25 Jun 2025 Clients are expecting advisers to use AI
25 Jun 2025 Generate makes another PE investment
25 Jun 2025 Kiwi advisers hit massive conference in US
24 Jun 2025 Fletcher’s down 3.6% as NZX excluded from ceasefire rally
24 Jun 2025 Devon’s parent company gets a new owner
24 Jun 2025 Asteron won’t hike premiums despite better benefits
24 Jun 2025 Service levels and transfer of workloads
23 Jun 2025 NZX down 0.3% as world waits for Iranian response
23 Jun 2025 Borrowers collective interest rate bill expected to fall by $3 bill: ASB plays catch-up
23 Jun 2025 NZ mortgage payments to drop by $3b in the next year: Macquarie
23 Jun 2025 ASB creates new CIO
22 Jun 2025 QuayStreet to be unplumbed from Craigs
21 Jun 2025 Your TMM Weekend Read: Bank pullback opportunity for advisers
21 Jun 2025 Advisers well positioned to fill SME lending gap left by banks
20 Jun 2025 GDP beats forecasts, but NZ sharemarket dips
19 Jun 2025 OCR on ice? Higher GDP has economists rethinking
19 Jun 2025 Calls for hold on OCR strengthen as GDP comes in higher than expected
19 Jun 2025 Should FAPs be accepting signature-less policy processing
19 Jun 2025 Fin Ed is Good Ed
18 Jun 2025 Geopolitical tensions keep NZ sharemarket steady, oil prices rise
18 Jun 2025 KiwiSaver is the future of financial advice: Bascand
18 Jun 2025 NZFSG Media Release: Cotality partnership announcement
18 Jun 2025 NZFSG Media Release: Cotality partnership announcement
18 Jun 2025 NZFSG teams up with Cotality
18 Jun 2025 RBNZ’s headache just got worse
18 Jun 2025 Rising inflation adding to RBNZ’s headache
18 Jun 2025 Partners Life announces premium increase
18 Jun 2025 Three new adviser initiatives from Fidelity Life
18 Jun 2025 nib Parent Boost
17 Jun 2025 NZX 50 down 0.4% as Israel-Iran conflict intensifies
17 Jun 2025 [Opinion] Can you recommend a replacement policy if that is likely to result in new special term exclusions?
17 Jun 2025 Tech’s coming - but so is the need for human advice
17 Jun 2025 Professional mortgage advice central as wave of fintechs expected
16 Jun 2025 Tourism Holdings jumps 57.5% on buyout offer, lifts NZX 50
16 Jun 2025 Mike Pero gets new general manager
16 Jun 2025 MPM finally gets new GM
13 Jun 2025 NZ sharemarket ends lower and oil prices spike after Israel strike on Iran
13 Jun 2025 nib nabs new CEO from Southern Cross
13 Jun 2025 Townhouse values mixed - but stand-alone homes are winning
13 Jun 2025 Townhouse values hit and miss as buyers prefer stand-alone houses
13 Jun 2025 Trump is making the rest of the world great again: Antipodes
13 Jun 2025 Harbour Investment Outlook: Markets rebound amid trade uncertainty
12 Jun 2025 NZ shares flat as global tensions rise over potential Iran strike by Israel
12 Jun 2025 OUT NOW: ASSET - Investing for income
12 Jun 2025 NZ’s economy: steady growth, shaky foundations
12 Jun 2025 Growth here, there, not quite everywhere
12 Jun 2025 Beale
12 Jun 2025 Investors need to check experience of private equity managers
11 Jun 2025 NZ sharemarket lifts as Fletcher Building shares rally on news of buyer inquiries
11 Jun 2025 KiwiSaver provider Aurora Capital adds to investment team
11 Jun 2025 General security agreements under the spotlight
11 Jun 2025 ‘Excessive’ security agreements by banks need investigating – lobby group
11 Jun 2025 Financial Advice NZ appoints new chairman
10 Jun 2025 NZX 50 index gains 0.2%; SkyCity loses spot on the 20
10 Jun 2025 Staying in May
10 Jun 2025 Indi’s bold bet: KiwiSaver-funded mortgages with no bank baggage
10 Jun 2025 KiwiSaver scheme funding new cheap floating rate start up
10 Jun 2025 Generate funds new home loan business
09 Jun 2025 Index reshuffle lifts Briscoe Group as Australian holiday subdues NZX trading
09 Jun 2025 Kiwibank lent more on mortgages in year ended March than Westpac
09 Jun 2025 Mortgage momentum: Kiwibank pulls ahead of Westpac
09 Jun 2025 Wait and see: should the OCR cut come later?
09 Jun 2025 Call for expected next OCR cut to be delayed
07 Jun 2025 Familiar names take top ethical investing awards
06 Jun 2025 NZ stocks end flat amid Fletcher-SkyCity legal woes
06 Jun 2025 More homeowners are fixing for two or three years
06 Jun 2025 Longer term mortgages edging up
06 Jun 2025 Fisher Funds set to be biggest KiwiSaver PE player
05 Jun 2025 InvestNow adds another low-cost Foundation fund
05 Jun 2025 Property companies help boost NZ sharemarket
05 Jun 2025 FMA says CoFI essential; New addition at Finsure: NZFSG rolls out new tool
05 Jun 2025 NZFSG upgrades its CRM
05 Jun 2025 FMA tells commerce minister CoFI is essential
04 Jun 2025 NZ sharemarket rises strongly on power company gains
04 Jun 2025 Finsure increases NZ staff
04 Jun 2025 Mortgage relief in sight? Arrears ease but pressure persists
04 Jun 2025 Mortgage arrears falling but hardships up
04 Jun 2025 Harbour spins out private credit portfolio as a stand-alone fund
03 Jun 2025 Ebos block trade rattles index; NZX 50 drops 0.7%
03 Jun 2025 Australian ETF giant cracks $50 bill FUM
03 Jun 2025 Booster Savvy returns $1 million to customers
03 Jun 2025 First-home buyer outlook looking brighter
03 Jun 2025 First home buyers getting more bang for their buck
02 Jun 2025 Harbour ponders drivers of ESG pull back
May 2025
30 May 2025 Lower bond yields lift NZ sharemarket
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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