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December 2012
31 Dec 2012 Why advisers should take notice of housing
31 Dec 2012 First-time buyers told: Start small
30 Dec 2012 Advisers offered opportunity to net life sales
28 Dec 2012 The KiwiSaver conundrum
28 Dec 2012 Rent jump for city homes
27 Dec 2012 Little for advisers in trans-Tasman portability
27 Dec 2012 Think about cashflow: NZPIF
24 Dec 2012 Two big events before Xmas
24 Dec 2012 What pushed your buttons this year?
24 Dec 2012 Mortgagee sales decline
24 Dec 2012 Forget the malls for Boxing Day bargains
21 Dec 2012 Interest rate predictions for 2013
21 Dec 2012 AM Best affirms Cigna rating
21 Dec 2012 Specials all but gone
21 Dec 2012 No nasty surprises for NZ QROPS
21 Dec 2012 [Weekly Wrap] The verdict from AFAs
21 Dec 2012 Migration turns positive: Westpac
21 Dec 2012 Complete our survey and win
20 Dec 2012 OnePath says sayonara to sign-off
20 Dec 2012 Complete our survey and win
20 Dec 2012 Low-end investors missing out on advice
20 Dec 2012 Boom not just Auckland: ANZ
20 Dec 2012 GST changes clear up bach rules
19 Dec 2012 One lender shuts up shop
19 Dec 2012 Landlord Tribunal experiences surveyed
18 Dec 2012 AFAs unhappy with regulation
18 Dec 2012 From China for Super Fund
18 Dec 2012 Home loan market too hot for Public Trust
18 Dec 2012 $60m settlement in Credit Sails debacle
18 Dec 2012 Landlords reminded of holiday requirements
18 Dec 2012 Free seminars for landlords
18 Dec 2012 Extra care needed when purchasing apartments
17 Dec 2012 Heartland becomes a bank
17 Dec 2012 Charging fees in risk advice
17 Dec 2012 NZ's newest bank
17 Dec 2012 Ross investors claim FMA ‘conflict of interest’
17 Dec 2012 Kiwibank cuts long; ANZ special gone
17 Dec 2012 Rates round-up: December 17
17 Dec 2012 AIA adds COO
17 Dec 2012 Harcourts reports strong sales lift
17 Dec 2012 Second developer sentenced to home detention
14 Dec 2012 OnePath records 500k members
14 Dec 2012 Mortgage fraudster sent to jail
14 Dec 2012 Coplestone goes Batty
14 Dec 2012 [Weekly Wrap] This week has been about clauses not Santa Claus
14 Dec 2012 Call for more prescriptive adviser regulation
14 Dec 2012 Reporting rules simplified: Dunne
14 Dec 2012 Market cooling: BNZ/REINZ survey
13 Dec 2012 NZ Home Loans cracks a record
13 Dec 2012 NZ Home Loans hits $1 bill mark
13 Dec 2012 Fate of exempted AFAs undecided
13 Dec 2012 Hamilton market strengthening: Agency
13 Dec 2012 Australian buyers keen on Kiwi apartments
12 Dec 2012 Avanti Finance fined $15,000
12 Dec 2012 Cullen calls for major KiwiSaver changes
12 Dec 2012 More discussion on fund managers
12 Dec 2012 Ex-adviser jailed for six years for fraud
12 Dec 2012 Earthquake proposals
11 Dec 2012 Madoff whistle blower visiting NZ
11 Dec 2012 Blame flies in AMP adviser dispute
11 Dec 2012 Auckland prices 10% above last peak: QV
11 Dec 2012 Tools must be deployed with caution
11 Dec 2012 Strongest monthly sales volume in five years
10 Dec 2012 Harbour Monthly Commentary: Theme watch in investment markets
10 Dec 2012 Perpetual sale this week
10 Dec 2012 Less comeback for non-adviser Ross referrals
10 Dec 2012 Fixing good value: Westpac
07 Dec 2012 NZ Super Fund scoops award
07 Dec 2012 [Weekly Wrap] More questions about Ross
07 Dec 2012 FSC committee to probe ‘viability’ of adviser distribution
07 Dec 2012 What we learnt about interest rates yesterday
07 Dec 2012 High-rise apartment buildings in Govt sights
07 Dec 2012 Dumb lending caused bubble: RE/Max chief
07 Dec 2012 Auckland sellers get close to asking price
06 Dec 2012 RBNZ talks about new tools
06 Dec 2012 The OCR ain't going anywhere
06 Dec 2012 No OCR cut on horizon
06 Dec 2012 OCR unchanged
06 Dec 2012 Advisers in the gun over Ross investments
06 Dec 2012 Wheeler says appropriate to keep OCR at 2.50%
06 Dec 2012 Ross Asset Management in liquidation
06 Dec 2012 OCR announcement 'good news for borrowers'
05 Dec 2012 How profitable are our banks really?
05 Dec 2012 Ross exempt from ‘most demanding’ AFA standard
05 Dec 2012 Housing market strengthening: Westpac
05 Dec 2012 New record house price for Auckland
04 Dec 2012 The top stock picks for next year
04 Dec 2012 Wheeler denies bank bias
04 Dec 2012 Online KiwiSaver site back again
04 Dec 2012 TOWER Health sale done
04 Dec 2012 More houses needed
04 Dec 2012 Ross liquidation continues
04 Dec 2012 Flawed strategy from commentator
03 Dec 2012 Tyndall Monthly Commentary:Looking beyond the fiscal cliff
03 Dec 2012 The problem with decumulation products
03 Dec 2012 What's your supermarket special to clients?
03 Dec 2012 Aging tipped to hit regional house prices
03 Dec 2012 Not enough new listings: Realestate.co.nz
02 Dec 2012 Ross's disclosure document
November 2012
30 Nov 2012 BT on the hunt for CIO
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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.
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