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July 2015
15 Jul 2015 Options discussed to improve KiwiSaver
15 Jul 2015 Abandoned tenancy process on the fast track
14 Jul 2015 NZ Super Fund hands out mandate
14 Jul 2015 More cuts
14 Jul 2015 Fidelity boosts claims team
14 Jul 2015 Call to require all advisers to live by Code
13 Jul 2015 Are buyers starting to look out of Auckland?
13 Jul 2015 Portugese investment not misguided: Orr
13 Jul 2015 Defensive stocks overpriced
13 Jul 2015 Tax experts speak out
13 Jul 2015 Unreliable data won’t help foreign buyer issue
10 Jul 2015 Cold houses - hot issue
10 Jul 2015 Adviser firms need to evolve for the future: Page
10 Jul 2015 Long-timer moves on from NZ Super Fund
10 Jul 2015 Mixed response to new tenancy law
09 Jul 2015 Gong for Kiwi Wealth
09 Jul 2015 Second independent director Minted
09 Jul 2015 New law means insulation, smoke alarms required in rentals
09 Jul 2015 QFE models needed former regulator says
09 Jul 2015 Still reasons for kids to join KiwiSaver: ANZ
09 Jul 2015 The RBNZ easing cycle begins
09 Jul 2015 Is Auckland’s supply problem being addressed?
08 Jul 2015 Westpac loosens up apartment lending rules
08 Jul 2015 ANZ rolls out new special
08 Jul 2015 QROPS ringfencing won't be easy
08 Jul 2015 Scrap designations and replace with advisers and sales people
07 Jul 2015 The G cracks the big B mark
07 Jul 2015 Falling business confidence points to... OCR cuts
07 Jul 2015 Westpac calls for lots of OCR cuts
07 Jul 2015 Obituary - Bob Edwards
07 Jul 2015 Nikko keeps global equity focus
07 Jul 2015 Advisers may miss their chance: Cortesi
07 Jul 2015 Sovereign confirms Select sale
07 Jul 2015 Seven top tips from a property rock star
06 Jul 2015 Milford clients jump ship
06 Jul 2015 Stanley moves to sharebroker
06 Jul 2015 Westpac predicts three more OCR cuts this year
06 Jul 2015 FMA: Settlement gives investors more
06 Jul 2015 FMA targets investor knowledge
06 Jul 2015 Home unaffordability breaks records in Auckland
06 Jul 2015 Gap between Auckland prices & rents not sustainable
05 Jul 2015 Why Dealer Group QFEs isn't a far-fetched idea
03 Jul 2015 Could Auckland’s property market be slowing?
03 Jul 2015 Big bank bags Bailey
03 Jul 2015 What is the problem the FAA is trying to fix?
03 Jul 2015 ASB ditches TVs and stereos for AB gear
03 Jul 2015 Advice is about relationships, not legislation
03 Jul 2015 “Auckland effect” starts spreading
02 Jul 2015 General Finance experiencing good growth
02 Jul 2015 Thomas mints mandate with Super Fund
02 Jul 2015 Auckland values over 30% higher than previous peak
02 Jul 2015 Holy cow....more interest rate cuts predicted
02 Jul 2015 Falling dairy prices to prompt OCR cuts
02 Jul 2015 Questions to ask fund managers
01 Jul 2015 National average asking price up
01 Jul 2015 Commodity producers face a difficult year
01 Jul 2015 Mini lending boom well underway
01 Jul 2015 Please Sir, Can I borrow more
01 Jul 2015 Dealer groups should be QFEs
June 2015
30 Jun 2015 UDC gets new boss
30 Jun 2015 NZX buys wrap service
30 Jun 2015 ANZ's head of channel moves on
30 Jun 2015 New “bright line” test rules clarified
30 Jun 2015 IFA to take part in global survey
30 Jun 2015 Fall in Auckland building consents
29 Jun 2015 Coplestone becomes new disciple
29 Jun 2015 Social housing programme open to overseas buyers
29 Jun 2015 TSB's turn
29 Jun 2015 The numbers BNZ are disclosing
29 Jun 2015 QROPS now trapped in KiwiSaver funds
29 Jun 2015 Bountiful pickings in fruit bowl for canny investors
27 Jun 2015 Churn debate: Sovereign has nothing to add
26 Jun 2015 People behind FAA review changing
26 Jun 2015 Get better information from your fund manager: Berry
25 Jun 2015 Senior NZ Super Fund manager departs
25 Jun 2015 Dealer groups should be QFEs
25 Jun 2015 Churn debate: Underinsurance the issue, not commissions
25 Jun 2015 Churn debate: Australia moves to hybrid remuneration model
25 Jun 2015 Kepa starts on wealth management
25 Jun 2015 No screams and howls on IP, but some concerns
25 Jun 2015 Competitive pricing puts pressure on bank margins
25 Jun 2015 How to become a first-class adviser
25 Jun 2015 Don’t under estimate the IRD
24 Jun 2015 Banks net interest income falls - PwC
24 Jun 2015 Will rates increases add impetus to Auckland’s rising rents?
24 Jun 2015 Income Protection unsustainable and rule book rewritten
24 Jun 2015 SBS finally moves - and what a move
24 Jun 2015 FMA tipped to crack down on more managers
23 Jun 2015 KiwiSaver members urged to ponder asset allocation
23 Jun 2015 RAM investor must return fictitious profit
23 Jun 2015 New property tax rules move a step closer
23 Jun 2015 BNZ joins the sub-five group
23 Jun 2015 Littlewood retires as Co-Director of RPRC
23 Jun 2015 AIA reports profit growth
23 Jun 2015 Milford status reviewed
23 Jun 2015 Act not serving consumers
22 Jun 2015 Showtime: Big banks v smaller lenders
22 Jun 2015 Kiwis can't see need for insurance: Research
22 Jun 2015 Milford action should boost confidence: NZSA
22 Jun 2015 "Adviser" sentenced for theft
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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