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December 2008
24 Dec 2008 Charges laid against Bridgecorp and Nathans directors
24 Dec 2008 Westpac's Q4 profit and mortgage market share shrink
23 Dec 2008 2009 Investment predictions discussed
23 Dec 2008 Key investment trends for 2009 predicted
22 Dec 2008 Campbell to head up Guardian Turst
22 Dec 2008 Strategic wins investor approval for moratorium
22 Dec 2008 Bargain bonanza in coastal holiday towns
22 Dec 2008 New rules seemingly shrink BNZ mortgage book
22 Dec 2008 News Round up...
19 Dec 2008 Fonterra plans retail bond offer
19 Dec 2008 Era of the shrewd investor
19 Dec 2008 RIF/DYF report reveals ugly truth
19 Dec 2008 Further cuts on the horizon
18 Dec 2008 More questions to ponder about credit funds
18 Dec 2008 Octaviar agreement to free up cash for OPI
18 Dec 2008 Building a trusted financial sector
17 Dec 2008 Dorchester Finance investors approve plan
17 Dec 2008 Wizard puts away wand
17 Dec 2008 Implemented consulting a flop, departing Russell NZ admits
17 Dec 2008 New Russell NZ boss based in Oz
17 Dec 2008 Opinion: Insurance makes you feel wealthy
17 Dec 2008 Kiwis looking to property again
17 Dec 2008 Officials paint gloomy picture
16 Dec 2008 Advisers demand more from ING
16 Dec 2008 Things looking up for property investors
16 Dec 2008 Tauranga: Bargains in the bay
15 Dec 2008 Market Review: December 2008 Commentary
15 Dec 2008 Market Review: London December 2008 Commentary
15 Dec 2008 Share gets a new chairman
15 Dec 2008 Morningstar disappointed with ING decision
12 Dec 2008 [Weekly Wrap]
12 Dec 2008 Numbers speaking volumes
12 Dec 2008 Tower tweaks trauma conditions and benefits
12 Dec 2008 Wait for categorical advice, PAA chief warns
11 Dec 2008 KiwiSaver-lite gets green light
11 Dec 2008 Tower: Beating back the bear
11 Dec 2008 Median house price edges higher in November: REINZ
11 Dec 2008 Residential Highlights – November 2008
11 Dec 2008 ING births plan nine months after freeze
11 Dec 2008 Time to go down under
10 Dec 2008 Two more ING funds closing
10 Dec 2008 Floating rates that don't sink
10 Dec 2008 Now the hard work for Hanover
10 Dec 2008 PIE fund with a difference
10 Dec 2008 ING seeks to wind up distressed credit funds
10 Dec 2008 PIEs give IRD tummy ache
10 Dec 2008 Pinnancle pushes into adviser market
09 Dec 2008 Hanover shareholders vote in favour of plan
09 Dec 2008 UPDATED: Question time for Hanover big-wigs
09 Dec 2008 Hanover meeting underway
09 Dec 2008 Dyer to advise English on economics
09 Dec 2008 HSBC's mortgage book shrinks but profits jump
09 Dec 2008 Default on rental debt leaving landlords out of pocket
08 Dec 2008 Attempt to stop Hanover meeting fails
08 Dec 2008 Kiwibank welcomes wealth manager
08 Dec 2008 News Round Up
08 Dec 2008 Average house price falls for a second month
08 Dec 2008 Main urban areas commentary: QV
05 Dec 2008 KiwiSaver enters Reserve Bank stats with style
05 Dec 2008 [Weekly Wrap] Talk about falling rates
05 Dec 2008 Cash PIEs table
05 Dec 2008 Babcock wins reprieve, but note-holders pushed back in queue
04 Dec 2008 Auckland property sales fall
04 Dec 2008 Rates down, down, down - market up?
04 Dec 2008 Hanover Roadshow
04 Dec 2008 Bollard slashes interest rates
04 Dec 2008 New legal head for AIG
04 Dec 2008 MPS announcement
04 Dec 2008 OCR reduced to 5%
04 Dec 2008 Communication the key
04 Dec 2008 OCR reduced to 5%
03 Dec 2008 The difference between Hanover and ING
03 Dec 2008 Genesis sets rates
03 Dec 2008 What finance company investors need to consider
03 Dec 2008 SCF opens bond offer
03 Dec 2008 Mortgagee website a hit
03 Dec 2008 Hanover Roadshow
03 Dec 2008 Hanover Roadshow
03 Dec 2008 Genesis Energy launches $225 mill bond offer
03 Dec 2008 ASB, Kiwibank take lion's share of Sept qtr mortgage lending
03 Dec 2008 OCR shock needed to resuscitate risk
03 Dec 2008 Creating Cash Flow
03 Dec 2008 Tenants can now pay rent online
02 Dec 2008 Finance company sector turned on its head
02 Dec 2008 AIG releases product enhancements
02 Dec 2008 Strategic wins trustee support for moratorium
02 Dec 2008 Hanover Roadshow
02 Dec 2008 Hanover Roadshow
02 Dec 2008 Opinion: Think big for risk
02 Dec 2008 Kiwi and Allied to merge
01 Dec 2008 Hanover Roadshow
01 Dec 2008 Dorchester posts $35m loss
01 Dec 2008 Fisher and Morrison launch first fund
01 Dec 2008 News Round Up
01 Dec 2008 Investors looking for property in Manakau
November 2008
30 Nov 2008 Whopper rate cut coming: Economists
30 Nov 2008 ANZ National's bad loan provisions soar
28 Nov 2008 Geneva says BOS reconfirms $35m facility
28 Nov 2008 [Weekly Wrap] Tough decisions are coming
28 Nov 2008 Pouncing on problems
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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