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June 2013
05 Jun 2013 Challenges ahead for FMA
05 Jun 2013 Pathfinder Monthly Commentary: Death and taxes – how certain are they?
05 Jun 2013 Rate of construction leaps
04 Jun 2013 Govt should regulate commissions: Naylor
04 Jun 2013 Tyndall Monthly Commentary: Bernanke and QE
04 Jun 2013 Borrowers go long
04 Jun 2013 Borrowers go long
04 Jun 2013 NZ firm forms JV with Swiss manager
04 Jun 2013 LVR restrictions 'days away'
04 Jun 2013 Less than a third worried by rising prices: BNZ
03 Jun 2013 KiwiSaver boosting property prices
03 Jun 2013 Supply and demand gap widens
May 2013
31 May 2013 Mortgage lending picks up pace
31 May 2013 Churn in Australian watchdog's sights
31 May 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Wanted: More advisers
31 May 2013 Fidelity Life appoints Chief Underwriting Manager
31 May 2013 Bank KiwiSaver lure may backfire
31 May 2013 Bottom of interest cycle reached: ANZ
30 May 2013 Lombard appeals rejected
30 May 2013 Gould steps down
30 May 2013 PAPER: Finding real solutions for New Zealand retirees
30 May 2013 Wheeler hints OCR cut possible
30 May 2013 Another Australian manager crosses the ditch
30 May 2013 Building consent numbers hit five-year high
29 May 2013 Consumers 'ready to take on more credit'
29 May 2013 ASB's new one year deal
29 May 2013 New tactic with home loan specials
29 May 2013 Poor retention rates can be turned around: AMP
29 May 2013 House prices worry NZIER
28 May 2013 Banking Ombudsman gets new chairman
28 May 2013 Lead managers for Meridian, Genesis sales appointed
28 May 2013 TOWER shareholders in for another payment
28 May 2013 No good news for St Laurence investors
28 May 2013 How to make advice a profession
28 May 2013 Mike Pero Mortgages now Australian owned
28 May 2013 REINZ rejects call to eliminate CVs
27 May 2013 NZF approves sale
27 May 2013 Suzuki, UDC team up
27 May 2013 RAM investors allege insider trading
27 May 2013 NZF accepts Pero valuation
27 May 2013 NZF accepts Pero valuation
27 May 2013 Leverage, not tax, advantage: APIA
24 May 2013 Fraud accused not registered adviser
24 May 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Regulation still a key concern
24 May 2013 ANZ cuts one-year rate
24 May 2013 ANZ drops one-year rate
24 May 2013 Strong disapproval of ban on low home deposits
24 May 2013 Strong disapproval of ban on low home deposits
24 May 2013 Want to go to Sydney?
24 May 2013 Urgent action required over banks' KiwiSaver selling tactics
24 May 2013 Lender given another serve
24 May 2013 Consider trauma instead of medical cover: Partners
24 May 2013 Top three Barfoot agents turn over $200m
23 May 2013 Jenning's gems
23 May 2013 IFA hands out awards
23 May 2013 RFAs should become AFAs
23 May 2013 MRP share price movement 'a disappointment'
23 May 2013 AMP reviews fund composition
23 May 2013 Keep papertrail, advisers told
22 May 2013 Kiwibank outlook downgraded
22 May 2013 IFA gets two new directors
22 May 2013 Don't bet on Aussie banks: PM Capital
22 May 2013 Kiwibank outlook downgraded
22 May 2013 Auckland lacking homeowners: Survey
21 May 2013 Here's one for the FMA
21 May 2013 Salt gets COO from AMP Capital
21 May 2013 Top mortgage brokers named
21 May 2013 Advisers told to comply with AML on day one
21 May 2013 Advisers' Code about to get tweaked
21 May 2013 Get systems right, property investors reminded
20 May 2013 PAA chairman resigns
20 May 2013 Lender of the year named
20 May 2013 LM court date pushed back
20 May 2013 Partners wins PAA gong
20 May 2013 RBNZ confirms macroprudential tools
20 May 2013 Kiwis backing rental property
18 May 2013 New to Business versus Business Overheads Cover
17 May 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Who gets the blame?
17 May 2013 S&P sounds warning to some lenders
17 May 2013 S&P sounds warning to some lenders
17 May 2013 New tools could mean rate cuts
17 May 2013 Advisers told to dob in peers
16 May 2013 Final battle for control of Mike Pero Mortgages starts
16 May 2013 Mike Pero accusations fly
16 May 2013 Budget eyes property market
15 May 2013 Adviser data safe dispute scheme says
15 May 2013 Kiwibank does a switch
15 May 2013 Kiwibank switches home loan specials to two year term
15 May 2013 Investors 'need to take responsibility'
15 May 2013 Lofty goals for savers: ANZ
15 May 2013 Kiwi houses too expensive: IMF
14 May 2013 AFA requirements should be stricter: Hughes
14 May 2013 Fidelity not hiring TOWER's sales force
13 May 2013 Aussies take slice of Edge
13 May 2013 Another new fund manager pops up
13 May 2013 Buyers giving up: Survey
13 May 2013 Sales numbers up but prices ease: REINZ
12 May 2013 Revamp planned for AX
12 May 2013 IFA names Grayland replacement
10 May 2013 AIS opens the doors on its investment strategy discussion
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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