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December 2003
31 Dec 2003 House price falls more than 12 months away
31 Dec 2003 A contrary view on workplace super
29 Dec 2003 Banks get a bouquet
29 Dec 2003 Gupta elected to bigger body
24 Dec 2003 New health insurance manager at Sovereign
24 Dec 2003 BT takes over Westpac money
23 Dec 2003 Excuses start early for Govt super fund
23 Dec 2003 Dominion's Tri-City offer allowed to proceed
23 Dec 2003 New 'leaky homes' standards not mandatory
22 Dec 2003 Squeeze the goods when buying advice - Mary Holm
22 Dec 2003 Vendor bidding at auctions must be made clear, says court
22 Dec 2003 Rates on the rise
22 Dec 2003 Taupo Auction
22 Dec 2003 $150m bulk retail deal brings top spot closer
22 Dec 2003 Investors told to avoid big risks
22 Dec 2003 One stage for SH20 extension
22 Dec 2003 Megacentre a waste of time,say developers
22 Dec 2003 Bypass clears its final obstacle
22 Dec 2003 Central Napier enjoying business boom
22 Dec 2003 Subdivision marketing under review
22 Dec 2003 NZ Super Fund reveals investments
22 Dec 2003 tri city
22 Dec 2003 Workplace savings not the panacea
21 Dec 2003 St Laurence offer extended
19 Dec 2003 LEAD STORY: Report card on superannuation released
19 Dec 2003 PRG: FPIA supports self-regulation
19 Dec 2003 PRG: Govt says it will respond to PRG early in New Year
19 Dec 2003 PRG: Superannuation report misses a few key points
19 Dec 2003 PRG: Recommendations in savings report welcomed
19 Dec 2003 PRG: Untapped potential for saving at work
19 Dec 2003 PRG: No crisis, but no room for complacency, says retirement income gr
19 Dec 2003 Report card on superannuation released
19 Dec 2003 PRG report welcomed
19 Dec 2003 PRG: Women please their savings issues have been recognised
18 Dec 2003 NZ Super Fund returns lowered
18 Dec 2003 Tower appoints new director
18 Dec 2003 NZ Super Fund returns lowered
18 Dec 2003 House prices rise 20% in a year
17 Dec 2003 AMP Office Trust faces big changes
17 Dec 2003 Tax option is not RFRM
17 Dec 2003 House prices rise 20% in a year
17 Dec 2003 News round up
17 Dec 2003 New mortgage industry association next year
17 Dec 2003 Property on roll around the country
16 Dec 2003 New actuary chair
16 Dec 2003 Paper on taxation of offshore investments released
16 Dec 2003 ING buys Club Life
16 Dec 2003 Inheritances aren't part of retirement plans
15 Dec 2003 Why Yields Count in Commercial Property
15 Dec 2003 House price record broken again
15 Dec 2003 Tucker buys Leveraged Investor Finance
15 Dec 2003 Tucker buys Leveraged Investor Finance
15 Dec 2003 News Round Up
13 Dec 2003 Landlords & Tenants Deserve Fair & Just Advocates
13 Dec 2003 Smith: compulsory home maintenance law ludicrous
13 Dec 2003 An auction with a difference
13 Dec 2003 Thieves Prosecuted
13 Dec 2003 Easing Off
13 Dec 2003 Increased house prices
13 Dec 2003 Earth will be moving at second Auckland Airpark
13 Dec 2003 Property problems: Steps to stop landowners becoming motorway road kill
13 Dec 2003 BNZ warns of storm clouds gathering round NZ's growing economy
13 Dec 2003 The Secrets Of Property Investment
13 Dec 2003 Interest Rate Hikes Coming
12 Dec 2003 Advisers asked to back new life company
12 Dec 2003 Pero offers the other side
12 Dec 2003 Advisers asked to back new life coy
11 Dec 2003 Pero offers the other side
11 Dec 2003 Brickies hit the wall as demand rises
11 Dec 2003 Banks run scared on Waitara leases
11 Dec 2003 Raising retirement age positive
11 Dec 2003 New business, new man
11 Dec 2003 Dominion Funds offer questioned
11 Dec 2003 Panel probes Money Managers unit
11 Dec 2003 Raising Retirement Age Positive
11 Dec 2003 Bach fetches nearly $1 million at auction
11 Dec 2003 High rise apartments limited to North Shore's CBD
11 Dec 2003 Manukau house prices going up and up
11 Dec 2003 Business leader warns against rising house debt
10 Dec 2003 Banks start to move interest rates
10 Dec 2003 Banks start to move interest rates
10 Dec 2003 Banks start to move interest rates
10 Dec 2003 Busy year for AMP trust in vibrant Auckland market
10 Dec 2003 Apartment demand still building
10 Dec 2003 1000-apartment plan for central city site
10 Dec 2003 NZ Home Loans Cheaper Than Oz
10 Dec 2003 Groups fighting intensive housing
09 Dec 2003 Auckland property market easing
09 Dec 2003 BNZ raises floating mortgage rate
09 Dec 2003 Houses Crowd Out Retirement Savings
09 Dec 2003 Land cheaper on Moon than in Whangarei
09 Dec 2003 Hot auction for Hot Water Beach
09 Dec 2003 Council to tighten cladding rules
09 Dec 2003 Rethinking asset allocation
09 Dec 2003 Port Hills homes rank sixth in the country
09 Dec 2003 Anxiety levels to be tested
09 Dec 2003 Property in, saving out- survey
08 Dec 2003 Guardian Trust's new mortgage manager
08 Dec 2003 Adviserlink Fundamentals & Processes
08 Dec 2003 Houses crowd out retirement savings
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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.
1 week 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