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February 2000
04 Feb 2000 NZ economy: Three key factors drive market
04 Feb 2000 NZ shares: Dividend yields continue to bolster market
04 Feb 2000 International shares: Rising bond yields threaten equities
04 Feb 2000 Fixed interest:
04 Feb 2000 Property: Yields look to firm up this year
04 Feb 2000 Super and Savings: United voice needed in year of change
04 Feb 2000 Tax: What does Dr Cullen have in store for us?
04 Feb 2000 Commission warns managers
02 Feb 2000 Complex anti-avoidance measures likely
01 Feb 2000 Managers controlling their appetite for risk
01 Feb 2000 REINZ urges Reserve Bank to let well alone
01 Feb 2000 Opinion: Current valuation techniques may become irrelevant
January 2000
31 Jan 2000 Still hot on houses
30 Jan 2000 News Round Up
30 Jan 2000 Retirement Commissioner Gains Taskforce Schools Competition
30 Jan 2000 What about pensioners' children and grandchildren?
30 Jan 2000 Alliance pleased to deliver on NZ Super
30 Jan 2000 Pensions to rise as Super wage floor restored
30 Jan 2000 Disestablishment of the Super 2000 Taskforce announced
28 Jan 2000 Pensioners get largest ever increase
28 Jan 2000 Grey Power applauds Government
27 Jan 2000 Financial Planning Conference secures high level speaking panel
27 Jan 2000 Take politics out of superannuation
27 Jan 2000 Government shortsighted over future of superannuation
26 Jan 2000 Online Broking: Differences between services explained
26 Jan 2000 Administration services: A booming business
26 Jan 2000 Mortgage pitched at retired investors
26 Jan 2000 Funds flow poor in December quarter
25 Jan 2000 Only One Solution To Superannuation Spat
24 Jan 2000 Cabinet gives Super 2000 the chop
24 Jan 2000 Higher mortgage rates hit house sales
24 Jan 2000 Super 2000 to get chop
23 Jan 2000 Emerging Markets and Asian Funds darlings of 99
23 Jan 2000 News Round Up
20 Jan 2000 ORC seeks to review its funding arrangements
20 Jan 2000 Employers embrace master trusts
20 Jan 2000 Banks face increasing competition this year
18 Jan 2000 AXA's big plans
16 Jan 2000 Online Broking: Comparing the offers
16 Jan 2000 Opinions divided on OCR increase
16 Jan 2000 News Round Up
14 Jan 2000 Fund managers under scrutiny
12 Jan 2000 One year fixed interest rates universally rise
12 Jan 2000 BT emerges more mainstream
10 Jan 2000 Spicers answer to higher tax rates
09 Jan 2000 Weekly briefs
08 Jan 2000 Research: New Zealand’s high dividend yields – what’s going on?
07 Jan 2000 ORC defends itself
06 Jan 2000 Which star signs are the best savers in the Zodiac?
05 Jan 2000 Weekly briefs
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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