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August 2019
19 Aug 2019 FoxPlan: Killick hands over
19 Aug 2019 Comcom loses bid to derail Harmoney appeal
19 Aug 2019 FMA secures guilty verdict
19 Aug 2019 New privacy guidelines welcomed
19 Aug 2019 Will rates fall much further?
19 Aug 2019 AIA's shot at a TV ad
19 Aug 2019 ASB: Rates may not get much lower
19 Aug 2019 [GRTV] Why a four day week is good; Fears about markets
18 Aug 2019 Wealthpoint makes appointments
16 Aug 2019 [The Wrap] What the heck is a good customer outcome?
16 Aug 2019 NZ shares fall as global uncertainty weighs on utilities; Sky gains on M&A
16 Aug 2019 Hobson Wealth latest to enter KiwiSaver with a robo solution
16 Aug 2019 Development focus for new Hamilton-Auckland partnership
16 Aug 2019 nib aims to make advisers' lives easier with online tool
16 Aug 2019 Kiwibank fixed rate cuts; Avanti debt milestone
16 Aug 2019 Avanti reaches debt milestone
15 Aug 2019 Asteron Life links up with health insurance companies
15 Aug 2019 NZ shares join global rout as bond markets stoke recession fears
15 Aug 2019 Harmoney appoints new CEO
15 Aug 2019 FMA ponders advice exemptions
15 Aug 2019 Regulators' group announces new vision
15 Aug 2019 Share markets shake
15 Aug 2019 Perpetual Guardian has a new general counsel
15 Aug 2019 Heartland Group lifts annual profit 9% on reverse mortage and other lending growth
15 Aug 2019 More rate cuts at ASB; ANZ concerned about risk-aversion
14 Aug 2019 Heathcote adds another manager to its portfolio
14 Aug 2019 Lower and lower domestic interest rates
14 Aug 2019 Reporting season on track; Sky City signals growth ahead
14 Aug 2019 ANZ's Elliott voices concerns over credit controls
14 Aug 2019 Ross victims get green light to sue ANZ
14 Aug 2019 FMA insurance response next month
14 Aug 2019 Westpac,TSB, ASB rate cuts; Q Advisor Group sets out licensing stance; Avanti Christchurch role
14 Aug 2019 What’s more important for KiwiSaver members? Net returns or fees?
13 Aug 2019 NZ shares join global lull as investors remain nervous
13 Aug 2019 Stronger market on the cards
13 Aug 2019 BNZ and SBS rate cuts; DTIs on Reserve Bank's radar; Opportunity at Avanti
13 Aug 2019 Q Advisor Group sets out licensing stance
13 Aug 2019 Advisers need to negotiate lower fees
12 Aug 2019 Chipping away at bank KiwiSaver funds
12 Aug 2019 NZ shares flatline in light trading; Fonterra sinks after dropping dividend
12 Aug 2019 DTIs still on the Reserve Bank’s radar
12 Aug 2019 ANZ, BNZ rate cuts; FMA warns on licensing
12 Aug 2019 Chicken Little and the falling sky
12 Aug 2019 FMA boss tells RFAs the clock is ticking and they better hurry up
12 Aug 2019 Advisers call for servicing test rethink for borrowers
11 Aug 2019 Regulation of custody sector remains undecided
09 Aug 2019 [The Wrap] AMP lays out a bold future plan. Will it work?
09 Aug 2019 Sharemarket edge lower as investors await earnings season
09 Aug 2019 AMP completes capital raising
09 Aug 2019 Southern Cross recognised
09 Aug 2019 New Southern Cross CEO; Nelson Building Society rate cut
09 Aug 2019 Improvements in affordability nationwide
09 Aug 2019 Southern Cross names new CEO
08 Aug 2019 Advisers' ESG consideration blew our minds: Morningstar
08 Aug 2019 New Zealanders overexposed to New Zealand: Kiwi Wealth
08 Aug 2019 Kathmandu produces 'ripper' result
08 Aug 2019 Prospa raises $45 million for NZ funding
08 Aug 2019 Rate cut bonanza begins
08 Aug 2019 OCR cut could prompt housing market upturn
08 Aug 2019 AMP revises Resolution Life deal, further plans to spin off NZ wealth business
08 Aug 2019 Banks slash rates after historic OCR cut
08 Aug 2019 OCR will fall further: economists react to shock cut
07 Aug 2019 Default KiwiSaver scheme set for overhaul
07 Aug 2019 Kloogh's clients' missing $8 million
07 Aug 2019 Asteron reports lift in profit
07 Aug 2019 NZ shares climb as rate cut stokes demand for yield stocks; Mercury gains
07 Aug 2019 Reserve Bank surprises markets with 1% OCR
07 Aug 2019 OCR decision revealed
07 Aug 2019 Tenants need to know about insurance
07 Aug 2019 ASB lifts annual profit 8% but says underlying growth was subdued
07 Aug 2019 Official Cash Rate decision looms; Auckland prices fall
07 Aug 2019 KiwiWealth takes aim at Simplicity
07 Aug 2019 Affordability key to value growth
07 Aug 2019 Dealer groups face future without overrides
07 Aug 2019 Why are Australian banks investing in nuclear weapons companies?
07 Aug 2019 Tribunal fines landlord for insulation fail
06 Aug 2019 OnePath to disappear
06 Aug 2019 NZ market dives on escalating US-China trade war
06 Aug 2019 Share NZ appoints Compliance and Training Manager
06 Aug 2019 3 reasons SMEs struggle to get finance
06 Aug 2019 Talk of 0.75% OCR grows
06 Aug 2019 MyFiduciary signs big new client
05 Aug 2019 Health Funds shrugs off conduct scrutiny as insured numbers grow
05 Aug 2019 Milk shares droop on trade tensions; Local market follows Asia lower
05 Aug 2019 OCR will fall to 0.75%: Kiwibank
05 Aug 2019 Sir Brian Lochore remembered by financial advisers
05 Aug 2019 SBS cuts rates; OCR set to fall
05 Aug 2019 Investor confidence in property softens
05 Aug 2019 Ageing bull market may have longer to run: AMP Capital
04 Aug 2019 Greens renew call for tougher tenancy laws
03 Aug 2019 Kiwis can't get confident about shares: ASB
03 Aug 2019 Fidelity on hunt for new underwriter
02 Aug 2019 NZ stocks edge higher, led by Contact; Asian markets slide
02 Aug 2019 Banks, insurers' complacency 'hard to comprehend' - FMA
02 Aug 2019 [The Wrap]
02 Aug 2019 Economists unanimous on rate cut
02 Aug 2019 Avanti hires south island regional manager
02 Aug 2019 Lower prices driving Auckland sales
02 Aug 2019 Newpark adjusts for new regime
02 Aug 2019 Partners Life gets its chief underwriter back
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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