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December 1998
24 Dec 1998 2nd Annual Awards
23 Dec 1998 Risk market business booming
23 Dec 1998 Comment: ISI supports voluntary savings regime
22 Dec 1998 Proposal for new adviser association rubbished
21 Dec 1998 Myles plans new adviser association
20 Dec 1998 Weekly briefs
17 Dec 1998 Research: 10 year return forecasts
17 Dec 1998 Super taskforce #3
16 Dec 1998 Gov't confirms its intentions N
15 Dec 1998 Your questions about Endowment Warrants answered
15 Dec 1998 Headaches and opportunities from index changes
14 Dec 1998 ISI to stay the same - for now
13 Dec 1998 Portfolio Talk: David McClatchy
13 Dec 1998 Weekly briefs
12 Dec 1998 GPG drags Tower back to court
09 Dec 1998 Proxy rate for funds not on
09 Dec 1998 Comment: ISI gaining traction and about to put the accelerator down
08 Dec 1998 Tower policyholders have their say
07 Dec 1998 Tower: The proposals in a nutshell
07 Dec 1998 Tower’s day (or three) in court
07 Dec 1998 Weekly briefs
06 Dec 1998 The Road Ahead
06 Dec 1998 Tower rejects GPG proposal
04 Dec 1998 Sovereign deal completed
03 Dec 1998 Disclosure regime a hindrance
02 Dec 1998 Trusts: Do what's right, not what's fashionable
01 Dec 1998 Blair scores politicians poorly
01 Dec 1998 Deutsche Bank grabs Bankers Trust
November 1998
30 Nov 1998 The hands-off approach
30 Nov 1998 Weekly briefs
29 Nov 1998 Superannuation: Why has the PRG report been ignored?
29 Nov 1998 When global bonds perform well
26 Nov 1998 Trusting times for Money Managers
25 Nov 1998 FMG propagates a high-yielding offshoot
25 Nov 1998 Cost crunch coming
24 Nov 1998 Degree course proposed
23 Nov 1998 German bank bids for BT
22 Nov 1998 Weekly briefs
22 Nov 1998 Royal & SunAlliance catches a fast-moving train
20 Nov 1998 Surprises will continue, but some will be pleasant
20 Nov 1998 A lifeboat is launched as Tolis founders
18 Nov 1998 Royal & SunAlliance (finally) snares Guardian Assurance
17 Nov 1998 WestpacTrust sacks managers
17 Nov 1998 Tolis's final twitchef
16 Nov 1998 NZRPT unitholders locked up for five years
16 Nov 1998 Royal & SunAlliance and Southern Cross join forces
15 Nov 1998 Merrill Lynch begins its New Zealand assault
15 Nov 1998 Weekly briefs
12 Nov 1998 Funds face suspension risk
10 Nov 1998 ANZFM outsources more functions
10 Nov 1998 Peters unveils RSS MkII
08 Nov 1998 Questions over lawyer's lettefu
08 Nov 1998 Weekly briefs
08 Nov 1998 One stands while others burn
08 Nov 1998 Research: Testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis
08 Nov 1998 Changes on the farm
06 Nov 1998 TOLIS torpedoed
04 Nov 1998 Greenslade looks to establish franchise network
02 Nov 1998 Aquaria 21 extends convertible note offer
01 Nov 1998 Weekly briefs
01 Nov 1998 Trusts: Get it right or forget it
October 1998
30 Oct 1998 No-load funds arrive in Australia
28 Oct 1998 Sovereign's Coon and Hendry say they'll se
28 Oct 1998 The Ascent of ANZ
26 Oct 1998 WestpacTrust undoes ties
26 Oct 1998 Opinion: Long-term Stability Must Be The Driver
26 Oct 1998 Weekly briefs
22 Oct 1998 Strong September funds flow
21 Oct 1998 IAFP members say Yes
21 Oct 1998 D-Day for IAFP
20 Oct 1998 Guardian Assurance offers a switch
19 Oct 1998 Portfolio Talk: Wayne Stechman
18 Oct 1998 Weekly briefs
16 Oct 1998 5-4-3-2-1 blast-off
15 Oct 1998 Surviving property's slump
15 Oct 1998 Superannuation reform is absolutely necessary
14 Oct 1998 Renouf name to disappear
14 Oct 1998 Prudential's equity funds to go
14 Oct 1998 Richard Prebble puts his case
12 Oct 1998 No future for Momentum
11 Oct 1998 Weekly briefs
08 Oct 1998 ASB Bank makes offer for Sovereign
08 Oct 1998 Research: Mixing direct and listed property
08 Oct 1998 Sovereign next to go
07 Oct 1998 Advisers appointed to Public Trust Office
06 Oct 1998 Weekly briefs
02 Oct 1998 Tower declares war on costs
September 1998
30 Sep 1998 Gifting programmes under investigation
29 Sep 1998 Family Trusts: IRD to investigate gifting transactions
29 Sep 1998 Government kills the Accord
29 Sep 1998 IAFP board comes out
29 Sep 1998 ISI supporting TOLIS legislation
28 Sep 1998 Weekly briefs
25 Sep 1998 ISI reviews its role
24 Sep 1998 Beware of the Year 2000 bug
22 Sep 1998 Latest round in fight for Tower to GPG
22 Sep 1998 Project Morph aims to move investors
21 Sep 1998 Weekly briefs
19 Sep 1998 Portfolio Talk: Carmel Fisher
17 Sep 1998 InsuranceLink progresses
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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