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August 2016
03 Aug 2016 BNP appoints advice boss
03 Aug 2016 Will insurance become redundant as things get safer?
03 Aug 2016 QV: Prices still running hot
03 Aug 2016 Squirrel launches secondary market
03 Aug 2016 Financial Advice NZ could play regulatory role
03 Aug 2016 Investor confidence increases
03 Aug 2016 Slowdown in Auckland market – B&T
02 Aug 2016 Perpetual Guardian plans $150m IPO
02 Aug 2016 Perpetual Guardian plans $150 mill IPO
02 Aug 2016 No stopping value rises: QV
02 Aug 2016 BNZ moves rates; Foreign buyer report called misleading
02 Aug 2016 Correction on the cards?
02 Aug 2016 Ballantyne hopeful of OIO nod 'soon'
02 Aug 2016 Jennings gets top IFA award
02 Aug 2016 Harmoney's first full-year results show loss
01 Aug 2016 Foreign buyer stats 'misleading'
01 Aug 2016 Newton Ross welcomes new advisers
01 Aug 2016 Harmoney faces charges
01 Aug 2016 Southern beauty
01 Aug 2016 HomeStart changes meant to open up market
01 Aug 2016 Surprise rate cut
01 Aug 2016 A good question from ANZ
01 Aug 2016 Stubbs launches not-for-profit KiwiSaver scheme
July 2016
31 Jul 2016 Heartland Seniors Finance gets a tick
31 Jul 2016 Devine takes over
29 Jul 2016 Young mortgage adviser of the year named (+ VIDEO)
29 Jul 2016 Relief as consents bounce back up
29 Jul 2016 Country's top lenders named
29 Jul 2016 Solvency key for self-employed borrowers
28 Jul 2016 Financial Advice NZ gets green light
28 Jul 2016 Lender of the year named
28 Jul 2016 Top lenders of the year named
28 Jul 2016 More state house sales on the agenda
28 Jul 2016 'Client first' right standard for the industry: Everett
28 Jul 2016 Mortgage lending drops
28 Jul 2016 Big DIMS bill looming
28 Jul 2016 Investors must battle fear
27 Jul 2016 Auckland’s future is up and out
27 Jul 2016 Auld takes on new KiwiSaver role
27 Jul 2016 KiwiSaver approach to health insurance needed
27 Jul 2016 Fall in mortgage lending
27 Jul 2016 No looming price crash
27 Jul 2016 'Work to do' to get advisers on to responsible investment
27 Jul 2016 Defensive funds regain ground
26 Jul 2016 Selling privately - a good idea?
26 Jul 2016 FMA wants more money
26 Jul 2016 IFA mum on FANZ vote
26 Jul 2016 No property price crash looming
25 Jul 2016 Suncorp appoints investment boss
25 Jul 2016 What's more important: Equity or income?
25 Jul 2016 Private versus agent sales
25 Jul 2016 IFA checks in on RFA members
25 Jul 2016 Future Penny has eye on Kiwi market
24 Jul 2016 Banks care more about income than equity
22 Jul 2016 LVR rules an opportunity for P2P
22 Jul 2016 Unusual week
22 Jul 2016 D-Day for Unitary Plan looming
22 Jul 2016 FAA review means advisers spend less time advising clients
21 Jul 2016 No let-up in migration pressure on housing
21 Jul 2016 Reserve Bank signals more OCR cuts
21 Jul 2016 Reserve Bank signals more OCR cuts
21 Jul 2016 Warning: Rents will rise
21 Jul 2016 Banks already introducing tougher rules for property investors
21 Jul 2016 IDS restructures to guide advisers through change
21 Jul 2016 Fisher Funds defends 'super-salary'
21 Jul 2016 Westpac cuts off investor lending
20 Jul 2016 Banks already introducing tougher rules for property investors
20 Jul 2016 Boom, boom, boom; Three banks move
20 Jul 2016 Westpac cuts off investor lending
20 Jul 2016 Major shakeups coming in lending world
20 Jul 2016 RESIMAC in merger talks with fellow non-bank lender
20 Jul 2016 New lending rules shuts young people out
20 Jul 2016 'Unintended consequences' of landlord crackdown
20 Jul 2016 Stewart Group boosts investment committee
20 Jul 2016 Adviser products shine
20 Jul 2016 Rising prices make for rising rents
19 Jul 2016 [OPINION] Proposed two-tier system has major flaws
19 Jul 2016 Property Institute slams RBNZ 'u-turn'
19 Jul 2016 Reserve Bank calls for changes to investor LVRs
19 Jul 2016 Crackdown on investor lending
19 Jul 2016 Reserve Bank targets investor lending
19 Jul 2016 Auckland’s rental hot spots
19 Jul 2016 Managers struggle in volatile environment
18 Jul 2016 More Ross settlements
18 Jul 2016 Time for KiwiSaver reality check
18 Jul 2016 Odds on for an August cut
18 Jul 2016 'Super salary' on offer, court told
18 Jul 2016 How OCR decisions are made
18 Jul 2016 How the Reserve Bank makes OCR decisions
18 Jul 2016 From DPB to dream home
18 Jul 2016 Code Committee to get more power
17 Jul 2016 What happens if I live too long?
15 Jul 2016 Industry must face up to trend for commission regulation
15 Jul 2016 Interest rates key to affordability
15 Jul 2016 Diversified battle continues
15 Jul 2016 Managers on borrowed time
15 Jul 2016 Buyers struggle to find properties
14 Jul 2016 Tereora takes helm of Fidelity
14 Jul 2016 Fidelity names new CEO
14 Jul 2016 Investors boost small home prices
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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