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December 2016
30 Dec 2016 Wrapping it up: The year in review
28 Dec 2016 Rare rate change
28 Dec 2016 Property in the blood
27 Dec 2016 Obituary: John Body
23 Dec 2016 Promoting warmer, drier rentals
23 Dec 2016 Not so normal Christmas
23 Dec 2016 Philip's Christmas message
22 Dec 2016 Things we wish we could insure against over the holidays
22 Dec 2016 Capital’s time to shine
22 Dec 2016 Shake-up for apartment laws
22 Dec 2016 More than one reason why rates rising
22 Dec 2016 Cigna Life
22 Dec 2016 Non-bank lender experience good growth
21 Dec 2016 Surprise spike in mortgage lending
21 Dec 2016 OCR hikes on the horizon
21 Dec 2016 Guide to good conduct
21 Dec 2016 Dispute over $2 mill life policy heads back to court
21 Dec 2016 No end in sight for record migration
21 Dec 2016 Happy rental tidings for landlords
20 Dec 2016 Milford Private Equity Fund II oversubscribed
20 Dec 2016 TOP tax policy criticised
20 Dec 2016 Co-Operative Bank CEO moves on
20 Dec 2016 A mixed bag of goodies to end the year
20 Dec 2016 ANZ hikes
20 Dec 2016 Couillault maps out Hobson's path
20 Dec 2016 Sealing the deal
19 Dec 2016 Rising rates, quieter market
19 Dec 2016 Mortgage advisers get a new minister
19 Dec 2016 Lifetime Group gets life business, sells general
19 Dec 2016 FMA not happy with AML reporting (+ Special Guide)
19 Dec 2016 Flat consents add to Akld supply woes
19 Dec 2016 $1 million penalty for Hamilton price fixer
18 Dec 2016 The personal finance design revolution
18 Dec 2016 Financial Advisers get new minister
16 Dec 2016 An adviser's guide to AML Compliance
16 Dec 2016 TripleA Advisers Association appoints independent chair
16 Dec 2016 Lifetime Group gears up for mortgages
16 Dec 2016 Apartment solution stumbling
16 Dec 2016 New fund out; Booster in
16 Dec 2016 Sovereign's medical changes welcomed
16 Dec 2016 A year of two halves for non-bank sector
16 Dec 2016 Rising rates, quieter market
15 Dec 2016 $320,000 fine for Youi insurance
15 Dec 2016 US Fed hike: When a tiny move matters
15 Dec 2016 Apartment solution stumbling
15 Dec 2016 Sovereign makes changes to health cover
15 Dec 2016 Another Ozzy fund turns up
15 Dec 2016 NZ rates boost with Fed move
15 Dec 2016 Fed move will boost NZ rates
15 Dec 2016 It's official: Retirement Commissioner calls for change
14 Dec 2016 New fund out; Booster jumps in
14 Dec 2016 Draft meth standard released
14 Dec 2016 DTIs hit stumbling block
14 Dec 2016 KiwiSaver fees must be disclosed in dollars - in the future
13 Dec 2016 Auckland apartment market cools
13 Dec 2016 Progress of DTIs stalls
13 Dec 2016 Newpark adds tech manager
13 Dec 2016 Second global investor join AMP Capital property portfolio
13 Dec 2016 Adviser smashes speed golf record
13 Dec 2016 Investor blame game unfair
13 Dec 2016 Fidelity's new boss rings in the changes
13 Dec 2016 Ken and Barbie used to sell retirement message
13 Dec 2016 Rebuilding after disaster
12 Dec 2016 Investor blame game unfair
12 Dec 2016 AMP NZ gets a new managing director
12 Dec 2016 The Co-operative Bank introduces new ratecard
12 Dec 2016 Young developer starts off robo advice site
12 Dec 2016 Rise in prices, sales as LVR effect dims
09 Dec 2016 Ralph Stewart-associated super fund gets QROPs licence
09 Dec 2016 NZ poised to top global house price list
09 Dec 2016 One lender introduces DTIs
09 Dec 2016 No OCR change on horizon
09 Dec 2016 Plus4 Insurance Group appoints a new Chairman and director
08 Dec 2016 Auckland's hot spot suburbs
08 Dec 2016 UDC Finance posts record net profit
08 Dec 2016 It's time to shine your light
08 Dec 2016 CFFC calls for seven changes to KiwiSaver
08 Dec 2016 NZCU Baywide gets awarded
08 Dec 2016 Housing market NZ’s biggest domestic risk - RBNZ
08 Dec 2016 FAA delay no reason for complacency
08 Dec 2016 Housing market NZ’s biggest domestic risk - RBNZ
08 Dec 2016 Property predictions for 2017 – Colliers
08 Dec 2016 Tax proposal targets property owners
07 Dec 2016 Tax proposal targets property owners
07 Dec 2016 Housing initiative unable to progress
07 Dec 2016 Foreign buyers biggest market influence - poll
07 Dec 2016 ASB appoints new senior executive to lead its retail business
07 Dec 2016 Westpac takes long rates higher
07 Dec 2016 TSB cops formal AML warning
07 Dec 2016 Fisher appoints NZ equities manager
07 Dec 2016 Traditional balanced fund models may not deliver
06 Dec 2016 Check record before committing
06 Dec 2016 Simon Fisher catches a CEO role
06 Dec 2016 Pie Funds targets Europe and the UK from Hawkes Bay
06 Dec 2016 Insurance group Preferred NZ looks to come out of the shadows
05 Dec 2016 Will Key resignation pave way for NZ Super changes?
05 Dec 2016 Kiwibank rises; Say no to DTIs broker group says
05 Dec 2016 Fee debate welcomed
05 Dec 2016 Price rises stop in Auckland
04 Dec 2016 Trump: Uncertainty as well as hope
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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