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December 2013
31 Dec 2013 FMA puts spotlight on paperwork
31 Dec 2013 Commercial investors feeling confident
30 Dec 2013 Where have they gone 2?
30 Dec 2013 Rise can't continue at this rate: Helm
29 Dec 2013 LVR rules tweaked
28 Dec 2013 Where have they gone?
27 Dec 2013 Sheriff Hughes ditches his horse for FMA departure
27 Dec 2013 Longer due diligence periods better: Whitburn
26 Dec 2013 Speech: Sean Hughes reviews the FMA's first three years
24 Dec 2013 One big bank to go
24 Dec 2013 New fellows at Finsia
23 Dec 2013 CPD problems for insurance advisers
23 Dec 2013 Adviser-owned firm offered for sale
23 Dec 2013 Marketing needs examination: Judge
23 Dec 2013 Property market on hold
20 Dec 2013 Lots of rate changes to end the week
20 Dec 2013 Not true underperformance: Hope
20 Dec 2013 Three Ross investors asked to pay back millions
20 Dec 2013 [Weekly Wrap] Looking ahead
20 Dec 2013 EDRs require long notice period
20 Dec 2013 Tyndall adds client relationship manager
20 Dec 2013 Expect a short pause: Newland
19 Dec 2013 Drug move draws comparisons
19 Dec 2013 Confidence may prompt OCR hike
19 Dec 2013 Good response to progressive product: Sovereign
19 Dec 2013 A time to QE taper but not tighten
19 Dec 2013 TMM online
19 Dec 2013 More advisers may work together in 2014
18 Dec 2013 Trilogy settles on syndicate building
18 Dec 2013 New appointments at Sovereign
18 Dec 2013 NZAM's new CEO
18 Dec 2013 Westpac follows ANZ
18 Dec 2013 NZPIF: WOFs not the best approach
17 Dec 2013 Questions about limited advice
17 Dec 2013 ANZ hikes all fixed rates
17 Dec 2013 Managed funds rules costly
17 Dec 2013 Rentals tested next month
16 Dec 2013 Slowdown shows up in statements
16 Dec 2013 Another gong for Harbour
16 Dec 2013 Boost sector profile in 2014: Cortesi
16 Dec 2013 First-home buyers still absent: Survey
15 Dec 2013 Report identifies opportunities
13 Dec 2013 [Weekly Wrap] How much training do you need?
13 Dec 2013 It's not a back down: Wheeler
13 Dec 2013 Carve out of new builds not a back-down: Wheeler
13 Dec 2013 2014: Facing Different Risks and Rewards
12 Dec 2013 Hope of FATCA reprieve
12 Dec 2013 What the economists said
12 Dec 2013 Mortgage pain coming
12 Dec 2013 OCR held, but not for much longer
12 Dec 2013 OCR held, but for how long?
12 Dec 2013 $1.1m for advice software
12 Dec 2013 Sales below expectations: REINZ
11 Dec 2013 So RBNZ makes exceptions now
11 Dec 2013 KiwiSaver contributions still slow
11 Dec 2013 Skill level 'has dropped'
11 Dec 2013 New-look annuity type product explained
11 Dec 2013 Why New Zealand needs annuities
11 Dec 2013 Why we are exiting annuities: Milton Jennings
10 Dec 2013 Kiwibank chases borrowers with floating rate special
10 Dec 2013 Construction loans exempt from LVR rules
10 Dec 2013 Westpac splits ratecard
10 Dec 2013 Concern at stress-testing regime
10 Dec 2013 New homes exempt from LVR rules
09 Dec 2013 All but one Credit SaILS investors repaid
09 Dec 2013 Will the QE trick continue?
09 Dec 2013 Westpac splits floating rate
09 Dec 2013 NZ Income adds people
09 Dec 2013 Listen to what we say RBNZ urges
09 Dec 2013 Committee responds to conflict concerns
09 Dec 2013 Early signs of market change: QV
06 Dec 2013 Public not listening to us: RBNZ
06 Dec 2013 [Weekly Wrap] New rules on the way
06 Dec 2013 CPD change may be a challenge
06 Dec 2013 LVR rules are making a difference
06 Dec 2013 Alexander: Too early to claim impact on lending
05 Dec 2013 New Code submitted to FMA
05 Dec 2013 Rules are making a difference: Helm
05 Dec 2013 Home loan numbers creep up
05 Dec 2013 Five gems of wisdom. What are yours?
05 Dec 2013 LVR restrictions changing why houses sold
05 Dec 2013 Financial literacy organisation welcomed
05 Dec 2013 More rental properties available in Auckland: Report
05 Dec 2013 Bill to ban foreign investors
04 Dec 2013 Ennis new CEO
04 Dec 2013 Trans-Tasman investment opportunities limited
04 Dec 2013 Barfoot: Rules having no impact yet
03 Dec 2013 OCR increase is coming; Westpac chases FHBs
03 Dec 2013 Westpac enticing first home buyers to save
03 Dec 2013 Chances of an OCR increase early next year rise
03 Dec 2013 Advisers will pick up KiwiSaver: FSC
03 Dec 2013 Asking prices, listing numbers down.
02 Dec 2013 Adjustments may be a regulatory headache
02 Dec 2013 Insurance has a bright future, but needs to change: FSC
02 Dec 2013 Fund managers predict pick-up
02 Dec 2013 New board member at Plus4 Insurance Group
02 Dec 2013 First-timers buy one in five properties
01 Dec 2013 The Development of Adviser Technology
November 2013
29 Nov 2013 Lack of KiwiSaver advice will cure itself: Neilson
29 Nov 2013 [Weekly Wrap] FMA in the news
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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