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August 2009
06 Aug 2009 Current swap rates docile
06 Aug 2009 ASFONZ 2009 Forum
06 Aug 2009 Long term rates steep.
06 Aug 2009 Camelot Mid-Year Conference
06 Aug 2009 Where's Boris?
06 Aug 2009 IRG looks for $500,000 in capital
05 Aug 2009 Recovery of collapsed finance company books starts
05 Aug 2009 Women in Finance Lunch
05 Aug 2009 Auckland home sales fall as listings rise
05 Aug 2009 Everyone's an adviser, but not necessarily a financial planner
05 Aug 2009 [Book] The Housing Bubble by Kieran Trass
04 Aug 2009 Officials still deciding whether insurance products Category 1or 2
04 Aug 2009 PAA August Roadshow
04 Aug 2009 More signs banks easing lending rules
04 Aug 2009 Brown steps down from ombudsman
04 Aug 2009 Taskforce calls for even tougher regulation on financial advisers
04 Aug 2009 Banks driving apartment buyers to the suburbs
03 Aug 2009 Still some hope OCR will be cut again this year
03 Aug 2009 Investing made easy: Knowledge is power
03 Aug 2009 Rates Round Up
03 Aug 2009 Advisers to become personally liable for advice
July 2009
31 Jul 2009 Rates one big game of poker
31 Jul 2009 IFA awards members
31 Jul 2009 Letting services under the spotlight
30 Jul 2009 SBS ratings affirmed
30 Jul 2009 Rates one big game of poker
30 Jul 2009 Building law being streamlined
30 Jul 2009 Bollard holds OCR at 2.5%
30 Jul 2009 Bollard keeps OCR steady but flags further cuts
30 Jul 2009 OCR unchanged at 2.50%
30 Jul 2009 Cotton talks up adviser business statement
30 Jul 2009 Aussie banks eyeing up wealth management opportunities
29 Jul 2009 Geared KiwiSaver fund offers bigger returns - and risks
29 Jul 2009 Permanent term ends for AIG
29 Jul 2009 Building consents drop in June, due to apartments
29 Jul 2009 IFA Conference 2009
29 Jul 2009 Advisers interested in infrastructure fund
28 Jul 2009 It's time to counter bad press
28 Jul 2009 Uncertainty remains certain
28 Jul 2009 Rates Round Up
28 Jul 2009 Equities the asset class to watch
28 Jul 2009 Home loan rates falling, even with rises
28 Jul 2009 Surge in demand for serviced apartments
27 Jul 2009 Property indicators on the way up
27 Jul 2009 News round-up
26 Jul 2009 Bollard to leave rates unchanged this week
24 Jul 2009 [Weekly Wrap] Industry architects revealed
24 Jul 2009 A guide to UK pension transfers
24 Jul 2009 Financial advisers to blame for over-subscription to frozen ING funds
23 Jul 2009 Alexander still favours three year rates
23 Jul 2009 The health of the home loan market.
23 Jul 2009 Eriksens Superannuation and Investment Conference 2009
23 Jul 2009 Opinion: Asking the right questions
23 Jul 2009 IFA confident adviser regulation won’t be hindered by under-funding
23 Jul 2009 [NEW Product] The NZ Investment Game
22 Jul 2009 Kiwibank cash PIEs top a billion dollars
22 Jul 2009 Consumers have choices over home loans: English
22 Jul 2009 First Step investment trusts wind-down stall as buyers dry up
22 Jul 2009 The 10 people who will decide advisers' future
22 Jul 2009 Marac and Perpetual Trust get a makeover
22 Jul 2009 Rents hit by oversupply of property
21 Jul 2009 Bank bashing the hot new game
21 Jul 2009 Bankers considering enquiry attendence
21 Jul 2009 Code Committee named
21 Jul 2009 Banks look to target ING's 14,000 frozen funds clients
21 Jul 2009 Super fund dumps ING and Smartshares
20 Jul 2009 Economists start to warn of rate rises
20 Jul 2009 PIS Professional Development Days
20 Jul 2009 Asset Allocation Summit 2009
20 Jul 2009 Rates Round Up
20 Jul 2009 News round-up
20 Jul 2009 New COO for Southern Cross
20 Jul 2009 Veda’s new credit rating product receives mixed response from property investors
17 Jul 2009 In the line of fire
17 Jul 2009 Chinese recovery could be 'biggest disappointment yet'
17 Jul 2009 PAA picks new CEO
17 Jul 2009 Three new players for Perpetual
16 Jul 2009 ING July Roadshow
16 Jul 2009 Forthcoming rise in interest rates could catch out property owners
16 Jul 2009 Trans-Tasman superannuation portability all but signed off
16 Jul 2009 PAA picks new CEO
16 Jul 2009 ASB makes changes to its wealth management strategy
15 Jul 2009 ING July Roadshow
15 Jul 2009 Where to for interest rates?
15 Jul 2009 Strategic Finance loss widens
15 Jul 2009 Regs look too heavy for sole practitioners, SIFA chief says
15 Jul 2009 Asteron product enhancements well-received
15 Jul 2009 Credit crunch hits NZ brokers harder than Aust
15 Jul 2009 Property Investors see light at the end of the tunnel
15 Jul 2009 Migration keeps property market chugging along
14 Jul 2009 ING July Roadshow
14 Jul 2009 Mortgage rate stimulus for housing market easing
14 Jul 2009 White-labelled KiwiSaver schemes under IRD spotlight
14 Jul 2009 Lift in market activity continuing
14 Jul 2009 New sale and purchase agreement on its way
14 Jul 2009 PLAN NZ restructures
13 Jul 2009 Investors make politicians look silly
13 Jul 2009 Nearly all investors accept ING offer
13 Jul 2009 RBNZ releases tougher rules for non-bank sector
13 Jul 2009 Time to move from floating to fixed: Westpac
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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