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July 2016
14 Jul 2016 Liberty appoints BDM
14 Jul 2016 Concerns raised over 'agent' classifcation
14 Jul 2016 Insurers welcome FAA changes
13 Jul 2016 Could AFA compliance costs fall?
13 Jul 2016 Westpac cuts interest-only term
13 Jul 2016 Financial Advisers Act changes revealed
13 Jul 2016 FSPR changes mooted
13 Jul 2016 Investors boost small home prices
12 Jul 2016 Interest rates key to affordability
12 Jul 2016 Westpac cuts interest-only term
12 Jul 2016 Harmoney adds payment protect feature
12 Jul 2016 Investors a target in tax proposals
12 Jul 2016 Gold prices lift but most Kiwi investors uninterested
12 Jul 2016 Diversified dispute hits court
11 Jul 2016 The value of insurance
11 Jul 2016 Tynan steps down
11 Jul 2016 Tax proposals target landlords - NZPIF
11 Jul 2016 Infrastructure investing: What, why and how?
11 Jul 2016 QROPS market 'an opportunity'
11 Jul 2016 Support for simple products
11 Jul 2016 FMA tight-lipped on Hansa investigation
11 Jul 2016 Indications interest rates may not fall further
08 Jul 2016 Top 10 hotspots set to boom
08 Jul 2016 Warnings fly following RBNZ proposal
08 Jul 2016 RBNZ signals tougher rules for investors (+Speech)
08 Jul 2016 Warnings fly following RBNZ proposal
08 Jul 2016 RBNZ signals tougher rules for investors
08 Jul 2016 Frozen funds raise concern
08 Jul 2016 KiwiSaver increasingly seen as retirement income option
07 Jul 2016 Brush up on your 2008 playbook
07 Jul 2016 Tide may turn on OCR cuts
07 Jul 2016 Future OCR cuts dependent on inflation
07 Jul 2016 Expert urges 'crashing' the market
07 Jul 2016 Stewart group branches out to Wellington
07 Jul 2016 Women left behind
07 Jul 2016 RBNZ signals tougher rules for investors
06 Jul 2016 Improve fire safety – Fire Service
06 Jul 2016 NZHL appoints distribution boss
06 Jul 2016 Brexit - Near term and longer term views
06 Jul 2016 Advisers missing KiwiSaver opportunity
06 Jul 2016 Key tells RBNZ to target property investors
06 Jul 2016 Investors in the line of fire
06 Jul 2016 Support for $100k FMA conference
05 Jul 2016 Hamilton values skyrocketing
05 Jul 2016 Akld prices up again - as expert urges “crash”
05 Jul 2016 Code Committee members reappointed
05 Jul 2016 RBNZ quandary
05 Jul 2016 OCR quandary for RBNZ
05 Jul 2016 Suitebox taps into highly-regulated advice markets
05 Jul 2016 FMA fraudster appeals
05 Jul 2016 AMP plans new funds
05 Jul 2016 NZPIF added to meth committee
04 Jul 2016 Let's deal with rogue advisers
04 Jul 2016 Credit growth reaches new levels
04 Jul 2016 Speeding up housing development
04 Jul 2016 Hard to find right advice fit
04 Jul 2016 Associations: Act on dodgy advice
01 Jul 2016 A little competition to end the week
01 Jul 2016 Bayleys to pay $2.2m over price-fixing
01 Jul 2016 Accuro commemorates 45th birthday by strengthening ties with the public health system
01 Jul 2016 Tony Ryall to head nib's board
01 Jul 2016 Interest in SuperCity falls
01 Jul 2016 Housing debt risk growing - ANZ
01 Jul 2016 ASB seesaw
01 Jul 2016 Proposed FAA changes not a great shock: Goldsmith
June 2016
30 Jun 2016 Nikko's latest quarterly investment forecast
30 Jun 2016 Bad news on Auckland consents
30 Jun 2016 Housing challenge for RBNZ
30 Jun 2016 One little change
30 Jun 2016 'High-volume' advisers earn 50% more
30 Jun 2016 New suitability rules get industry backing
30 Jun 2016 Alternative lending options
29 Jun 2016 Supply boost could fuel prices
29 Jun 2016 What the FMA will do next
29 Jun 2016 Minister says no commission ban
29 Jun 2016 Churn report should include banks: Insurers
29 Jun 2016 FMA says commission drives churn
29 Jun 2016 FSC welcomes FMA report on life insurance sales practices
29 Jun 2016 Why financial advice matters
29 Jun 2016 Record high mortgage lending
29 Jun 2016 ASB hikes its floating rate
29 Jun 2016 The Co-op Bank ups a rate
29 Jun 2016 Pinnacle gets into income protection
29 Jun 2016 Industry groups seek more information
29 Jun 2016 Regional auction watch: Strong demand for family home
28 Jun 2016 Building a new advice process – Start With A Question
28 Jun 2016 Special rate rise; OCR cut now more likely; New RB data on loans
28 Jun 2016 Associations expecting 'yes' vote
28 Jun 2016 Transfer firms untroubled by Brexit
27 Jun 2016 What Brexit means for NZ investors
27 Jun 2016 Mortgage lending hits record high
27 Jun 2016 David Whyte takes chair of planning group
27 Jun 2016 Smartshares and SuperLife to amalgamate
27 Jun 2016 Brexit means August OCR cut likely
27 Jun 2016 Brexit: Don't panic
27 Jun 2016 Insurer reactions 'too slow'
27 Jun 2016 Finally some rate changes to report
27 Jun 2016 Southern (Auckland) charm
24 Jun 2016 Value houses on performance
24 Jun 2016 SBS reports growth in a difficult year
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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