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June 2011
21 Jun 2011 Heartland hopes to leave guarantee scheme early
21 Jun 2011 MED dismisses risk-based fee model
20 Jun 2011 Comment: Why so much time on Hubbard?
20 Jun 2011 SFO lays 50 fraud charges against Allan Hubbard
20 Jun 2011 Short term loans with massive interest rates
20 Jun 2011 If you think your interest rate is bad look at this
20 Jun 2011 News Round Up: June 19
17 Jun 2011 Client focus best medicine for adviser ailments: Dr Dave
17 Jun 2011 FMA withdraws civil proceedings against Insured Group
17 Jun 2011 More regulatory madness
17 Jun 2011 blog
17 Jun 2011 Providers’ responsibility for their KiwiSaver distribution
17 Jun 2011 Wholesale rates shaken by Chch and Greece
17 Jun 2011 Advisers need to brace for litigation
17 Jun 2011 Auckland house prices up over quarter, but ‘bumps ahead' says BNZ
16 Jun 2011 KiwiSaver changes “chip away at certainty around retirement planning"
16 Jun 2011 Tower adds key account manager
16 Jun 2011 Hooker puts advisers in red alert district
16 Jun 2011 Wellington landlords out of pocket after company closure
15 Jun 2011 FMA orders Geneva to stop issuing debentures
15 Jun 2011 Something for interest rate junkies
15 Jun 2011 Tate slams FAA levy
15 Jun 2011 Strong demand boosts Auckland rents, says Barfoot & Thompson
15 Jun 2011 Auckland leading real estate recovery, says Harcourts
15 Jun 2011 Auckland City Centre rents down 31% over year to May, Crockers
14 Jun 2011 Heartland to buy PGG Wrightson Finance
14 Jun 2011 Geneva chalks up another $6.2 mill in losses
14 Jun 2011 Cash impact of finance co sale to cost PGG Wrightson $2.5m
14 Jun 2011 Auckland leads national sales volumes up, but prices down
14 Jun 2011 REINZ regional commentaries - May 2011
14 Jun 2011 Advisers give levies lukewarm reception
13 Jun 2011 Life companies forget about customers
13 Jun 2011 Size of adviser levies revealed
13 Jun 2011 News Round Up: June 13
10 Jun 2011 Bridgecorp's Petricevic fails in latest bid for legal aid
10 Jun 2011 Paying the piper – how much you could have to pay for the FMA
10 Jun 2011 NZF home loans about to be liberated from company
10 Jun 2011 Allied Farmers staves off receivership
10 Jun 2011 The week in a word. Frozen
10 Jun 2011 Ginger gets former Sovnet boss
10 Jun 2011 How not to sell KiwiSaver
10 Jun 2011 Agents spy slight rise in property investor interest in June
09 Jun 2011 Bollard likely to raise interest rates sooner
09 Jun 2011 OCR kept at record low
09 Jun 2011 RBNZ keeps OCR at record low
08 Jun 2011 Specific allocation to NZ assets idiotic: Cleary
08 Jun 2011 Be warned. Opportunity narrowing
08 Jun 2011 The perpetuity problem pertaining to property
08 Jun 2011 Auckland and Wellington values a tale of two cities, QV
08 Jun 2011 QV May 2011 Report - the regions
08 Jun 2011 The perpetuity problem pertaining to property
07 Jun 2011 AFA applicants moving – but slowly
07 Jun 2011 Tyndall Commentary: Why Markets Are Not Reflecting The Economy
07 Jun 2011 All eyes on Bollard
07 Jun 2011 News Round Up: June 7
07 Jun 2011 Economic confidence up but property sector optimism mixed, BNZ
06 Jun 2011 Geneva Finance to write down more loans
06 Jun 2011 Bollard's views on inflation keenly sought; OCR on hold
06 Jun 2011 NZF to resume mortgage lending
06 Jun 2011 FNZ gets its first COO
03 Jun 2011 High Court judgment to shake advice world
03 Jun 2011 Changing channels
03 Jun 2011 Even more news on NZF
03 Jun 2011 Prison and large fines proposed for false disclosure statements
03 Jun 2011 NZF limiting new loans to $750,000
03 Jun 2011 Time for health insurance industry to speak up
03 Jun 2011 2011 on course for least number of houses built
03 Jun 2011 After three months of rises, average Auckland house price slips in May
02 Jun 2011 ISI rejects Partners Life membership
02 Jun 2011 Mercer opts for equities and growth assets
02 Jun 2011 ANZ's mortgage book -- the mystery continues
02 Jun 2011 Getting REAL about property management education
01 Jun 2011 Auckland property market shifts in favour of sellers
01 Jun 2011 Perpetual boosts executive team with three promotions
01 Jun 2011 AIA: Insider information
01 Jun 2011 Stop complaints becoming disputes
01 Jun 2011 More on NZF's home loan performance
01 Jun 2011 Otago oil boom ahead
May 2011
31 May 2011 NZF Group posts $4.8m annual loss
31 May 2011 Kiwibank's not so good report
31 May 2011 Regulation helps advisers battle banks
31 May 2011 TSB's mortgage book grows but profitability flat
30 May 2011 Allied Farmers won't be replacing Rob Alloway
30 May 2011 Kiwibank's profit plunges as bad loan charges soar
30 May 2011 Credit rating upgrade for PSIS
30 May 2011 Moodys downgrades NZ banks
30 May 2011 Moody thoughts and Kiwibank's new product
30 May 2011 Newpark adds two BDMs
30 May 2011 News Round Up: May 30
30 May 2011 It’s time to engage investors about the new regime
30 May 2011 Housing market improves, but from low base, says ANZ
30 May 2011 Low rates increasing appeal of investment property, ASB
29 May 2011 Fisher & Paykel Finance's results shine
27 May 2011 Commission ban “one private members Bill away”
27 May 2011 ASB's mortgage book shrinks again
27 May 2011 Kiwibank to launch an offset product
27 May 2011 FMA kicks-off monitoring reviews
26 May 2011 Christchurch Earthquake: Over $12.5m paid out in life claims
26 May 2011 HSBC offers exceptional term deposit rate
26 May 2011 BNZ grows mortgage book strongly in March Qtr but profitability falls
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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