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August 2018
07 Aug 2018 Advisers face FSLAB uncertainty
07 Aug 2018 Advisers face FSLAB uncertainty
07 Aug 2018 Here's what officials thought of FSLAB submissions
06 Aug 2018 nib expands its travel insurance business
06 Aug 2018 Revealed: What MBIE told MPs about financial advice
06 Aug 2018 How to profit from the new plan
06 Aug 2018 A breach of trust? Private asset ownership in KiwiSaver
06 Aug 2018 Select committee guidance revealed
06 Aug 2018 nib: Website criticism gave us a boost
03 Aug 2018 [The Wrap] Advisers put on the (f)SLAB by MPs
03 Aug 2018 Mortgage fraudsters jailed
03 Aug 2018 Auckland sales, listings down
03 Aug 2018 OCR Preview; What's likely to happen next week
03 Aug 2018 OCR preview: Reserve Bank tipped to remain cautious
03 Aug 2018 Bed tax diminishes value of Airbnb rentals
03 Aug 2018 NZ Trustee Services appoints new GM
03 Aug 2018 CWG: Code change not major overhaul
02 Aug 2018 The Big Risk: The Creditors' Revolt
02 Aug 2018 Banks being more fussy; FSLAB outcome slammed
02 Aug 2018 Tenant turnover trending down
02 Aug 2018 FNZ shareholders eye sale
02 Aug 2018 Beattie steps back from top job at Booster
02 Aug 2018 FSLAB consultation 'waste of time'
02 Aug 2018 Milford's fee income income increases 31%
01 Aug 2018 Mike Pero Mortgages boss warns of “forensic underwriting”
01 Aug 2018 General Finance stock market listing moves closer
01 Aug 2018 Fidelity Life offers relief to M. bovis farmers
01 Aug 2018 Strength in lower-end of market
01 Aug 2018 Select Committee told: Could do better
01 Aug 2018 Select Committee told: Could do better
01 Aug 2018 Stock on market falls further
July 2018
31 Jul 2018 FSC awards open
31 Jul 2018 Committee proposes FSLAB changes
31 Jul 2018 Development fraudsters guilty
31 Jul 2018 Consents down yet construction growth forecast
31 Jul 2018 Committee proposes FSLAB changes
31 Jul 2018 [GRTV] Former NZ Funds Management chief executive Richard James
31 Jul 2018 Partners Life records strong profit
31 Jul 2018 nib backs controversial TripAdvisor of healthcare site
31 Jul 2018 Advisers 'struggle to balance regulator and client'
30 Jul 2018 Record winter rent growth
30 Jul 2018 Hobson Wealth Partners makes appointments
30 Jul 2018 First no-fee home-owner's loan
30 Jul 2018 Southern charms
30 Jul 2018 Six-step process
30 Jul 2018 No clear reason for KiwiSaver success
30 Jul 2018 Advisers need to take stand in industry: Cliffe
30 Jul 2018 Reasonableness on non-disclosure needed
27 Jul 2018 [The Wrap] Gotta love disruption; New life for old war horse; What we weren't meant to tell you about
27 Jul 2018 Active discussion on sale of AMP NZ under way
27 Jul 2018 Squirrel launches no-fee personal loans
27 Jul 2018 Deutsche Craigs takes gong
27 Jul 2018 Overseas buyers in 22% inner Auckland sales
27 Jul 2018 Lending and changes quieter; New appointments
27 Jul 2018 From wine to KiwiSaver
27 Jul 2018 Proposed code will devalue advice: Tate
27 Jul 2018 Higher meth test levels, lower premiums
26 Jul 2018 Ombudsman sees drop in mortgage cases
26 Jul 2018 National signals opposition to monetary policy changes
26 Jul 2018 BNP joins Responsible Investment Association
26 Jul 2018 Tariff Wars
26 Jul 2018 Retirees face significant shortfall
25 Jul 2018 Mortgage lending falls in June
25 Jul 2018 NZHL confirms Skilton as CEO
25 Jul 2018 No insulation grants for landlords
25 Jul 2018 Which QFEs in FMA's sights?
25 Jul 2018 AMP set degree level as minimum standard
25 Jul 2018 Botherway takes on new role
25 Jul 2018 Code Working Group gets adviser input
24 Jul 2018 Pie Funds joins KiwiSaver market with low fee model
24 Jul 2018 Sovereign top brass take charge at AIA
24 Jul 2018 Nikko appoints new board chair
24 Jul 2018 Mortgage Express adds experience to Auckland office
24 Jul 2018 Blue ink from nib pen
24 Jul 2018 Mortgage groups divided on Code proposals
24 Jul 2018 Managers get benchmark leeway
24 Jul 2018 QuayStreet makes SRI changes
24 Jul 2018 Clients wait longer for income payouts
23 Jul 2018 Former Morningstar boss appointed to lead board
23 Jul 2018 Dealer groups divided on Code
23 Jul 2018 Selling a bit less than ideal
23 Jul 2018 Meth report bombshell: what it means
23 Jul 2018 Bank fund managers 'conflicted on exclusions'
22 Jul 2018 Charles River bought by State Street
20 Jul 2018 [The Wrap] Next round for CWG; Hat tip to group of AFAs; At least sunlight on QFEs
20 Jul 2018 Meeting changing conduct expectations
20 Jul 2018 Research boss moves on
20 Jul 2018 Migration flow lowest since late 2015
20 Jul 2018 Advisers want changes to Code Working Group proposals
20 Jul 2018 Submitters criticise code suggestions
19 Jul 2018 High-charging non-bank lenders revealed
19 Jul 2018 KiwiBuild success would slow market - TMP
19 Jul 2018 ANZ backs group of AFAs
19 Jul 2018 Advisers vindicated in latest report
18 Jul 2018 Small banks growth outpace big banks
18 Jul 2018 QFEs fail on replacement business practices: FMA
18 Jul 2018 Patten on his new role with NZFSG; Co-op rate change
18 Jul 2018 nib partners with Ronald McDonald House
18 Jul 2018 Advisers wouldn't get away with it
18 Jul 2018 Commission model swaps one problem for another: Ballantyne
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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