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December 2004
31 Dec 2004 Nationwide regulation for Australian mortgage brokers
30 Dec 2004 Dyer appointed GM
29 Dec 2004 Returns should remain solid in 2005
27 Dec 2004 It's what you pick to put in your investment basket that counts - Mary Holm
27 Dec 2004 Diana Clement: Gains tax change only part of story
27 Dec 2004 Take the low road
27 Dec 2004 BNZ's ads escape censure - just
27 Dec 2004 Big development could be blocked
27 Dec 2004 Interest rate gift for Bollard
27 Dec 2004 500% interest on festive loans
27 Dec 2004 Backyard operators flouting the law, say backpackers
27 Dec 2004 Real estate in `great shape'
27 Dec 2004 Faulty systems ticked as safe
27 Dec 2004 Big banks' fixed home loan rates rise
27 Dec 2004 Orchard St tenants evicted
27 Dec 2004 Mega store opposed
27 Dec 2004 Finance companies lift game
27 Dec 2004 Hearing backs retention of riverside baches
24 Dec 2004 Three questions about the taskforce
24 Dec 2004 Christmas Greetings
23 Dec 2004 Platinum investors warned
22 Dec 2004 Southern Cross says all health insurers should be rated
22 Dec 2004 Adviser taskforce asks questions
21 Dec 2004 Superbank posts loss but growing steadily
21 Dec 2004 ANZ
21 Dec 2004 Taylor is Tower NZ ceo
21 Dec 2004 New chairman for Walker Capital Management board
20 Dec 2004 Macquarie buys 49% of Brook
20 Dec 2004 News Round Up
18 Dec 2004 Two year home loan war ending
18 Dec 2004 Mortgage Finance Ltd
18 Dec 2004 Mortgage Finance Ltd
18 Dec 2004 Auckland Property Investors Assn - North Shore meeting
18 Dec 2004 December - Property Investors Unite!
17 Dec 2004 Westpac raises fixed term interest rates
17 Dec 2004 ANZ cuts brokerage rates in Australia
16 Dec 2004 Macquarie buys PwC's financial planning business
16 Dec 2004 Sovereign appoints home loans head
16 Dec 2004 Blue Chip announces new director
16 Dec 2004 Sovereign appoints home loans head
15 Dec 2004 HFA - Pettett = ISI?
15 Dec 2004 Investor Guide: Getting prosperous from property
15 Dec 2004 AMP NZ Office Trust to raise $30M
15 Dec 2004 One-third of leaky building complex needs bulldozing
15 Dec 2004 Massive population growth predicted in Auckland
15 Dec 2004 Using alternative assets for diversification
15 Dec 2004 Knocking spots off the Aussies
15 Dec 2004 Key appointments at AIA
15 Dec 2004 Banks fend off finance companies
15 Dec 2004 GSF could be in line for a top up
15 Dec 2004 ASB still a market share winner
14 Dec 2004 Banks fend off finance companies
14 Dec 2004 Self-regulation preferable to legislation says CFA head
14 Dec 2004 Health Funds loses boss
13 Dec 2004 $7500 scholarships available for planners
13 Dec 2004 AXA Ambition Scholarship Programme
13 Dec 2004 Scholarship details
13 Dec 2004 News Round Up
13 Dec 2004 NZMBA introduces disclosure documents
13 Dec 2004 Property problems: Law review might clarify investment issues
13 Dec 2004 Diana Clement: Never too young to earn
13 Dec 2004 Safety comes from spreading it wide - Mary Holm
13 Dec 2004 Property boss hits back at rival
13 Dec 2004 NZMBA introduces disclosure documents
13 Dec 2004 $51.5 million deal secures new owner for Hilton Hotel
13 Dec 2004 Tenant is all set to fight eviction
13 Dec 2004 RB leaves interest rates unchanged
13 Dec 2004 Cheapest mortgages could hit 8.5pc
13 Dec 2004 Aidanfield buyers still waiting
13 Dec 2004 Capital Properties revalues
13 Dec 2004 Rents double at port
13 Dec 2004 What price this view?
13 Dec 2004 House values queried
10 Dec 2004 Hedge fund performance improving
09 Dec 2004 AMP appoints new head man
09 Dec 2004 Bollard leaves OCR unchanged but surpises with hawkish tone
09 Dec 2004 OCR unchanged at 6.5%
09 Dec 2004 NZ Super Fund could get major boost
08 Dec 2004 Radically different fixed interest fund launched
08 Dec 2004 Bank promises to consult on commission cuts
07 Dec 2004 ASSET December
07 Dec 2004 Reserve Bank expected to leave rates on hold
07 Dec 2004 Auckland Property Market Update
07 Dec 2004 Rescued from a financial hijacking
07 Dec 2004 Holiday home-letting tax wrong, say Nats
07 Dec 2004 Growers dismiss toxic soil fears
07 Dec 2004 Legal threat over subdivision
07 Dec 2004 Residents vow to fight dump expansion
07 Dec 2004 Tower plan stalls
07 Dec 2004 Christchurch rents tipped to drop
07 Dec 2004 Govt inaction on polluted sites exposing the innocent - lobby
07 Dec 2004 Poison under sites for housing
07 Dec 2004 Mortgage brokers' commissions get close eye from banks
07 Dec 2004 Boom times ending as debt rises
07 Dec 2004 Auction exceeds hopes
07 Dec 2004 Residents to pay for ant eradication
07 Dec 2004 Noisy apartments put to the test
07 Dec 2004 Minority group out of line - developer
07 Dec 2004 Paihigher?
07 Dec 2004 Luxury resort halted
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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