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December 2011
23 Dec 2011 [Weekly wrap] Huljich punishment decided
23 Dec 2011 Slow, steady rent rises predicted for 2012
22 Dec 2011 Hubbard's Southbury companies unlikely to repay more than $186m
22 Dec 2011 Sovereign keeps its rating
22 Dec 2011 Merry Christmas
21 Dec 2011 Analysis doesn’t require analysts, says FMA
21 Dec 2011 Dorchester Pacific pulls the plug on life insurance
21 Dec 2011 Quietness at a busy time
21 Dec 2011 Advisers at risk from tax avoidance trap
20 Dec 2011 Huljich cops big fine for misleading investors
20 Dec 2011 Huljich cops big fine for misleading investors
20 Dec 2011 Kiwibank special goes
19 Dec 2011 Costly KiwiSaver missing its target
19 Dec 2011 Life insurance underwriting standards "relaxed"
19 Dec 2011 Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles
19 Dec 2011 News Round Up December 19
19 Dec 2011 Depreciation may need looking at: Commission
18 Dec 2011 Rates round-up: Dec 19
18 Dec 2011 One association says yes to Partners
16 Dec 2011 [Weekly Wrap] Cracks appear
16 Dec 2011 Another quiet week ends
16 Dec 2011 Finance companies profit as credit unions struggle
16 Dec 2011 The changing face of advisers
16 Dec 2011 Remuera rent rises trump nationwide levels
15 Dec 2011 FMA lays charges against Hanover directors
15 Dec 2011 Which banks grew their home loan books?
15 Dec 2011 Westpac and BNZ grow mortgage books
15 Dec 2011 AXA advisers baulk at AMP contracts
14 Dec 2011 Changes at Partners Life
14 Dec 2011 Hughes predicts fewer FMA/SFO tag teams
14 Dec 2011 A new way of rate setting
14 Dec 2011 Nationwide sales show double-digit growth
13 Dec 2011 NZF deal done
13 Dec 2011 Auckland Council to issue Euro bonds
13 Dec 2011 New chief executive for REAA
12 Dec 2011 Crackdown on UK-NZ pension transfers
12 Dec 2011 Harbour Commentary: Stable Government and economic recovery
12 Dec 2011 GFNZ (Geneva Finance) reduces first-half loss
12 Dec 2011 Ludlow banned from consumer finance
12 Dec 2011 A quiet start - for some
12 Dec 2011 News Round Up
09 Dec 2011 Weekly Wrap: Do we need RFAs?
09 Dec 2011 Premium reductions a priority for Southern Cross
09 Dec 2011 Interest rates on hold until at least the second half of 2012
09 Dec 2011 Retail deposit surge cushions banks: Reserve Bank
08 Dec 2011 Partners Life figures revealed
08 Dec 2011 FMA completes strategic leadership appointments
08 Dec 2011 Interest rates on hold until at least the second half of 2012
08 Dec 2011 S&P delivers Heartland an early Christmas present
08 Dec 2011 OCR remains the same
08 Dec 2011 Commission ban would hurt consumers
08 Dec 2011 Bank gives little away on rates
08 Dec 2011 Auckland house prices above 2007 peak, investors back
08 Dec 2011 QV December 2011 - the regions
07 Dec 2011 SFO lays 21 charges against South Canterbury Finance five
07 Dec 2011 AMP appoints new head of underwriting and claims strategy
07 Dec 2011 IFA trains up bank staff
07 Dec 2011 Get rid of RFAs: Tate
07 Dec 2011 Investors active in North Shore, Christchurch sees slowdown
06 Dec 2011 IFA boss says get rid of RFAs
06 Dec 2011 Moodys is now saying keep the OCR down
05 Dec 2011 Squeezed margins hit newest bank
05 Dec 2011 Rates round up: Dec 5
05 Dec 2011 Newpark appoints new BDM
05 Dec 2011 News Round Up: December 5
05 Dec 2011 OCR week previewed
05 Dec 2011 Auckland house prices hit new November high
04 Dec 2011 Next OCR increased pushed further into the future
04 Dec 2011 Sorry, there ain't no property rort
02 Dec 2011 [Weekly Wrap] Getting the chop
02 Dec 2011 S&P downgrades big four Aussie banks
02 Dec 2011 Repayments of OnePath mortgage fund delayed
02 Dec 2011 FATCAT. Opps I mean FATCA
02 Dec 2011 Looking at BNZ's new rates
02 Dec 2011 Immigrants more active in market than departing Kiwis
01 Dec 2011 ANZ's Sept Qtr profit jumps but mortgage book shrinks again
01 Dec 2011 Blue Star's 1Q trading worse than expected
01 Dec 2011 Trustees Executors appoints new private wealth advisers
01 Dec 2011 AIA: Health, wealth and wellbeing – how’s yours?
01 Dec 2011 Botherway explains OnePath clean-out
01 Dec 2011 BNZ drops rates
01 Dec 2011 ‘Flood' of new listings in wake of RWC
01 Dec 2011 Auckland leads 11% home consents rise
November 2011
30 Nov 2011 Quakes hit SBS Bank's profit and mortgage book
30 Nov 2011 It's a bit of an NZF week
30 Nov 2011 Former Don Ha properties sold
29 Nov 2011 AMP gives Mercer the boot
29 Nov 2011 The cost of NZF's finance company failure
29 Nov 2011 AIA New Zealand announces new relationship role
29 Nov 2011 Advisers urged to question fund managers
29 Nov 2011 Sale of NZF's home loan business details
29 Nov 2011 Mum and Dads bearing brunt of mortgagee sales rise
28 Nov 2011 The pros and cons of NZF's deal
28 Nov 2011 Heartland does it tough, narrows profit forecast
28 Nov 2011 Who should be made to comply?
28 Nov 2011 News Round Up: November 28
28 Nov 2011 Property guru goes bust
28 Nov 2011 Average weekly rent up 7.4% in year to June
25 Nov 2011 Fidelity Life appoints new director
25 Nov 2011 Kiwibank's profit surged and mortgage book growth accelerated in Sept
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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