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July 2012
10 Jul 2012 Housing advice for Cantabrians
09 Jul 2012 News Round Up: July 9
09 Jul 2012 Rates Round Up: July 9
09 Jul 2012 Kiwibank takes all of advisory firm
09 Jul 2012 Risk profiling ‘astrology’ fails clients
09 Jul 2012 Treat big gains with caution: Newland
09 Jul 2012 Christchurch owners go to court over leases
08 Jul 2012 More little signs of things to come; Kiwibank ups stake
06 Jul 2012 [Weekly wrap] Crossing the Tasman
06 Jul 2012 Guardian Trust looks to recruit more AFAs
06 Jul 2012 RFA decries KiwiSaver 'scaremongering'
06 Jul 2012 Heat on in Christchurch rental market: Trade Me
06 Jul 2012 Invercargill property returns 54%
05 Jul 2012 Kiwibank offers 4.99% home loan rate
05 Jul 2012 Z Energy pumps for $150 million of bonds
05 Jul 2012 Kiwibank offers 4.99% home loan rate
05 Jul 2012 FMA targets Perpetual over $25 million loan
05 Jul 2012 Super ministry will help landlords: Heatley
05 Jul 2012 Southland owners get earthquake warning
04 Jul 2012 TrustPower plans bond issue
04 Jul 2012 Unimed gets ratings diagnosis
04 Jul 2012 TNP launches share scheme for advisers
04 Jul 2012 Property investors moving loans
04 Jul 2012 KiwiSaver a difficult sell for RFAs
04 Jul 2012 Asteron changes names and management
04 Jul 2012 Not enough rentals available: Survey
04 Jul 2012 Auckland listings at seven-year low: Barfoot
04 Jul 2012 Information on supplement slow to arrive
03 Jul 2012 New people, products, commission and more from Asteron
03 Jul 2012 Advisers get trans-Tasman recognition
03 Jul 2012 ASB puts a ring around a rate
03 Jul 2012 Property finders in authority's sights
03 Jul 2012 Property investors unfairly singled out
02 Jul 2012 Diversified adds an AFA
02 Jul 2012 Blue Star looks to sell up, bonds may be worthless
02 Jul 2012 News round-up: July 2
02 Jul 2012 Rates round-up: July 2
02 Jul 2012 The shift to fixed has started
02 Jul 2012 tnp rewards advisers with shares
02 Jul 2012 Financial planning not yet a profession
02 Jul 2012 Federation supports ring-fencing concerns
02 Jul 2012 Property investors' outlook positive: Survey
02 Jul 2012 Listings drop likely to fuel prices
01 Jul 2012 Move to fixed home loan rates starts
June 2012
29 Jun 2012 [Weekly wrap] Advice for advisers
29 Jun 2012 'It's cheaper' a dangerous phrase for advisers
29 Jun 2012 Building consents continue upward trend
29 Jun 2012 Ring-fencing 'may be just the beginning'
28 Jun 2012 Receivers to get Nathans directors' $885,000 reparations
28 Jun 2012 Adviser book values boosted by sales drought
28 Jun 2012 Bumper quarter for lending
28 Jun 2012 Top auctioneer named
28 Jun 2012 Supreme Court decision ends leaky-home bids
27 Jun 2012 March a bumper quarter for mortgage lending; quake hits SBS's book
27 Jun 2012 Tower appoints new GM Sales and Marketing
27 Jun 2012 NZ Super Fund v Aust funds. Which has done better?
27 Jun 2012 Too much huffing and puffing over house prices
27 Jun 2012 Buyers want any colour, so long as it's green
27 Jun 2012 Get set for do-upper boom
26 Jun 2012 Former OnePath man joins Westpac
26 Jun 2012 New RBNZ governor revealed
26 Jun 2012 Graeme Wheeler to replace Bollard at Reserve Bank's helm
26 Jun 2012 Time for a fix
26 Jun 2012 FMA takes hard line on KiwiSaver advice
26 Jun 2012 'Buyers' pack' will help investors
26 Jun 2012 Reform bill a good move: Association
26 Jun 2012 Time to stop bubble babble
25 Jun 2012 Strong support for compulsory KiwiSaver
25 Jun 2012 IFA calls for controversial rule to be scrapped
25 Jun 2012 Westpac switches position
25 Jun 2012 News Round Up: June 26
25 Jun 2012 You've gotta know your numbers
25 Jun 2012 Adviser appointed to chair AdviceFirst
25 Jun 2012 Rates round-up: June 25
25 Jun 2012 Fix mortgages now: Westpac
25 Jun 2012 Number of private sales drops slightly: Trade Me
24 Jun 2012 Why best products aren’t always best
22 Jun 2012 [Weekly wrap] Educators in the news
22 Jun 2012 Two gone in Tower management reshuffle
22 Jun 2012 Non-pharmac focus part of Accuro’s adviser push
22 Jun 2012 Devon adds portfolio manager
22 Jun 2012 New non-bank lender arrives
22 Jun 2012 Signs point up for property prices: ANZ
22 Jun 2012 Flow of migrating Kiwis eases
21 Jun 2012 Resimac and Loan Market launch NZ joint-venture
21 Jun 2012 Financial literacy tutors lacking financial knowledge
21 Jun 2012 What do you thinks is happening in the property market?
21 Jun 2012 Kiwibank best for first-timers: Report
20 Jun 2012 New bank gets new CEO
20 Jun 2012 Co-operative Bank grows mortgage book, gains new CEO
20 Jun 2012 Olly Newland on house prices
20 Jun 2012 New director for Triplejump
20 Jun 2012 Role of advice missing from savings debate
20 Jun 2012 More sales but prices stagnant in provinces
20 Jun 2012 Bank discounts not a right: Ombudsman
19 Jun 2012 More signs of rate rises
19 Jun 2012 Govt changes blamed for educator's downfall
19 Jun 2012 Residential investment not best bet: Hawes
19 Jun 2012 No surprise property finding favour
18 Jun 2012 Defining your own regulation
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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