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December 2015
31 Dec 2015 Get your business on track for 2016
31 Dec 2015 Christchurch Central: Rising from the rubble
30 Dec 2015 FAA forums
30 Dec 2015 Focus on what's important in 2016
30 Dec 2015 What to look out for in 2016
29 Dec 2015 Housing with a heart
24 Dec 2015 Looking back on 2015
24 Dec 2015 Kauri controversy overlooks property rights
23 Dec 2015 Commercial market growing
23 Dec 2015 Rezoning windfall?
23 Dec 2015 IDS hires key industry figures
23 Dec 2015 Agreement disputes part of evolution: IFA
23 Dec 2015 Zone changes may be windfall for investors
22 Dec 2015 Harbour picks up mandate from AMP
22 Dec 2015 Mortgage lending grows
22 Dec 2015 Adviser career path needed
22 Dec 2015 NZIER economist appointed by wealth management firm
21 Dec 2015 Record breaking migration continues
21 Dec 2015 New proposal for banks off-quarter reporting
21 Dec 2015 Changing future for tenancies
21 Dec 2015 Times are changing
21 Dec 2015 KiwiSaver providers should take better care, Vernon says
21 Dec 2015 Banking on change
18 Dec 2015 Advisers vital for KiwiSaver: Beattie
18 Dec 2015 Muted response to Fed move
18 Dec 2015 Options paper discussed
17 Dec 2015 LendMe rejects fee criticism
17 Dec 2015 Finally
17 Dec 2015 Comcom charges real estate agencies after Trade Me row
17 Dec 2015 Rents on the rise
17 Dec 2015 Advertising of soft-dollar tempters not a good look
17 Dec 2015 FMC moves positive for clients: AMP
16 Dec 2015 Rents hit new high in Auckland
16 Dec 2015 Inflation risks skewed to the downside
16 Dec 2015 New director for Plus4
16 Dec 2015 What tenants want
16 Dec 2015 The Wolf Talks Turkey
16 Dec 2015 Advisers overdue for a pay rise
16 Dec 2015 Deposits to be returned to Springpark buyers
15 Dec 2015 Drop in apartment investment
15 Dec 2015 What tenants really want
15 Dec 2015 Being aware of urban change drivers
15 Dec 2015 Entity licensing benefits no one: Whyte
15 Dec 2015 Rewrites upset investors
15 Dec 2015 Jennings: No commission for replacement business
15 Dec 2015 AMP may wind up fund
15 Dec 2015 Take note of urban change drivers
14 Dec 2015 Regulatory changes slow Auckland market
14 Dec 2015 LendMe fees under question
14 Dec 2015 Active managers must be better...
14 Dec 2015 Retirees an advice opportunity
14 Dec 2015 Comcom examines LendMe fees
11 Dec 2015 Variable annuities get green light
11 Dec 2015 Momentum shifting
11 Dec 2015 Kiwis doubt their financial knowledge
11 Dec 2015 Partners offers mobile tests
11 Dec 2015 Harmoney to launch insurance product
11 Dec 2015 Harmoney to launch insurance product
10 Dec 2015 REINZ data shows market cooling
10 Dec 2015 GFS scoops up adviser awards
10 Dec 2015 National price growth strong
10 Dec 2015 BNZ makes third party distribution appointment
10 Dec 2015 Reluctance to cut may be wrong
10 Dec 2015 Tenancy Tribunal has bite
10 Dec 2015 OCR cut to 2.5%
10 Dec 2015 What the Reserve Bank said today
10 Dec 2015 OCR cut, maybe for final time. Rate cuts started
10 Dec 2015 Associations should step up to help consumers find advisers: Boyle
09 Dec 2015 NZTS deal done
09 Dec 2015 How Much Would You Pay to Live One Year Longer?
09 Dec 2015 What will the RBNZ say?
09 Dec 2015 Bolton: How do investors know P2P right for them?
09 Dec 2015 Cameron: MJW made little difference to FAA options
09 Dec 2015 GST decision could lead to higher fees
09 Dec 2015 New chair for NZSF
09 Dec 2015 Get smoke alarms, insulation sorted
08 Dec 2015 Pro bono work for IFA members
08 Dec 2015 Stephens to retire from Lifetime
08 Dec 2015 New magazine out now: Apartment Living
08 Dec 2015 Advisers ask: Is it fair accountants, lawyers outside law?
07 Dec 2015 Off the plan buys outside LVRs
07 Dec 2015 Oyster's latest offer promises 8.4% return
07 Dec 2015 Warming to responsible investing
07 Dec 2015 End of an era for Fidelity Life chief
07 Dec 2015 Fidelity Life CEO steps down
07 Dec 2015 Industry asks: Is transactional advice relief working?
04 Dec 2015 Mixed predictions for OCR movement
04 Dec 2015 Odds are on an OCR cut
04 Dec 2015 Senior Trust achieves listing
04 Dec 2015 PIMCO platform launches
04 Dec 2015 Harmoney changes fee structures
03 Dec 2015 Whangarei climbing out of Auckland’s shadow
03 Dec 2015 Devon 12th manager to get licence
03 Dec 2015 Health insurance bill defeated
03 Dec 2015 Mixed data seals deal
03 Dec 2015 Pain expected with FAA changes
03 Dec 2015 Grosvenor adds to research team
03 Dec 2015 Fears any new licensing regime will be onerous
02 Dec 2015 New normal threatens RBNZ tactics
02 Dec 2015 Threat to global growth from rising inventories
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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.
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