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July 2012
30 Jul 2012 Heatley eyes affordability, supplement
28 Jul 2012 ASB's new Olympic special
27 Jul 2012 New role for Troup
27 Jul 2012 [Weekly wrap] Battling the taxman
27 Jul 2012 Steady as she goes
27 Jul 2012 Advisers stunned by pension transfer ‘tax grab’
27 Jul 2012 Sovereign hit with big tax bill
27 Jul 2012 'Off the plans' purchases finding favour again
27 Jul 2012 Property Brokers advertisement complaint upheld
26 Jul 2012 Reserve Bank keeps OCR on hold
26 Jul 2012 KiwiSavers not hurt by growth fund woes
26 Jul 2012 What the RBNZ governor said today
26 Jul 2012 No change to OCR
26 Jul 2012 Numbers don’t stack up advisers on SOE sales
26 Jul 2012 Economists unruffled by OCR statement
25 Jul 2012 Blue Star to sell despite likelihood of bonds then being worthless
25 Jul 2012 Perpetual’s Torchlight loan repaid
25 Jul 2012 Cleary ends fight with taxman
25 Jul 2012 Downward pressure on rates?
25 Jul 2012 Council focus on affordability
25 Jul 2012 Steady growth continues: Report
24 Jul 2012 GFNZ to raise $1.5m from underwritten rights issue
24 Jul 2012 Dorchester wants to buy back its $15m notes early for 92c in the dollar
24 Jul 2012 New plan for Plan B
24 Jul 2012 Radical thinking needed on housing affordability
24 Jul 2012 Bank building sold in $50,000 blocks
24 Jul 2012 Property investment a safe bet
23 Jul 2012 Newland: Give first-time buyers GST break
23 Jul 2012 Are People Getting Sicker?
23 Jul 2012 News Round Up: July 23
23 Jul 2012 Hunter Hall gets new CEO
23 Jul 2012 TNPPA reaches 12-month membership target in just 3 months
23 Jul 2012 OCR to remain on hold until March 2013 - at least
23 Jul 2012 OCR predictions
23 Jul 2012 Rates round-up: July 23
23 Jul 2012 News round-up: July 23
23 Jul 2012 Auckland leads national rural market
23 Jul 2012 OCR on hold until March: Economists
20 Jul 2012 Asset Finance expects to register a prospectus in 10 to 12 days
20 Jul 2012 MDRT gets new chairs
20 Jul 2012 What we learnt at MDRT
20 Jul 2012 [Weekly wrap] Managed funds the victor - just
20 Jul 2012 OCR staying low for foreseeable future
20 Jul 2012 Mercer grows its investment team
20 Jul 2012 Ex-OnePath CIO joins Mercer
20 Jul 2012 'Careful balance' for property market
20 Jul 2012 Cheaper to rent than buy: Economist
20 Jul 2012 Housing ‘crisis’ but new boom unlikely
19 Jul 2012 Three Capital + Merchant directors found guilty of fraud charges
19 Jul 2012 Three Capital + Merchant directors found guilty of fraud charges
19 Jul 2012 What ‘advisers’ alpha’ is worth
19 Jul 2012 Housing boom turns construction boon
19 Jul 2012 Workshop for first-time developers
19 Jul 2012 Credit card technology to help property managers
18 Jul 2012 Heavyweights duke out investment strategies
18 Jul 2012 Big and small bank rate changes
18 Jul 2012 Lack of housing inflation tipped to keep OCR low
18 Jul 2012 Focus on supplement misses the point
18 Jul 2012 Politicians wade into supplement debate
17 Jul 2012 End of the World Index Fund approaches
17 Jul 2012 Liberty strips its home loan rates and cuts fees
17 Jul 2012 Asteron product changes outlined
17 Jul 2012 Watch out for unlicensed workers: Board
17 Jul 2012 Unit title act changes cause confusion
16 Jul 2012 Rates round-up: July 16
16 Jul 2012 New BDM for TNP
16 Jul 2012 Advisers warned: volatility ‘permanent’
16 Jul 2012 Growing numbers shop for home loans
16 Jul 2012 People shopping for home loans
16 Jul 2012 News Round Up: July 16
16 Jul 2012 Pinnacle Life gets a rating
16 Jul 2012 Association backs call for strengthening help
13 Jul 2012 FMA issues first report card on AFAs
13 Jul 2012 AFAs get first report card from FMA
13 Jul 2012 [Weekly wrap] Room for improvement
13 Jul 2012 More rate increases
13 Jul 2012 BNZ's private banking completes makeover
13 Jul 2012 Steve Goodey wins $396,000 judgement against Phil Jones
13 Jul 2012 Co-operative development plan for Christchurch
12 Jul 2012 NZ should follow Australian health insurance model
12 Jul 2012 Perpetual freezes mortgage fund
12 Jul 2012 What makes rates move?
12 Jul 2012 What triggers home loan rate changes?
12 Jul 2012 Low-cost advice plan faces hurdles
12 Jul 2012 Real estate agents say it's a sellers' market: BNZ survey
12 Jul 2012 Leaky buildings destroying wealth: Whitburn
11 Jul 2012 Reserve Bank to hold rates for some time: NZIER
11 Jul 2012 OCR on hold for some time: NZIER
11 Jul 2012 OCR on hold for some time: NZIER
11 Jul 2012 Adviser lawsuit drought not all good news
11 Jul 2012 House prices to rise further but only til mortgage rates rise: Westpac
11 Jul 2012 Steps taken to speed up Tribunal process:Heatley
10 Jul 2012 Harbour commentary: Europe: A Step Back from the Brink
10 Jul 2012 More changes at OnePath predicted
10 Jul 2012 Tyndall Monthly Commentary: Another Year of Two Halves
10 Jul 2012 Brook adds to board
10 Jul 2012 Rate movements both ways
10 Jul 2012 Housing market buzzing but not quite on fire
10 Jul 2012 National house prices up 4.2% on a year ago: QV
10 Jul 2012 Time for perception of landlords to change
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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