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December 2018
31 Dec 2018 Local equity market ends year on a firm note
31 Dec 2018 Antipodes offers investor choice
31 Dec 2018 Fisher, Chapman and Crossan all honoured
31 Dec 2018 2018 – a year of uncertainty
30 Dec 2018 [The Wrap] And that folks is a wrap for 2018
28 Dec 2018 NZ shares nudge higher on last full day's trading for the year
27 Dec 2018 Top 5 Tribunal tips for landlords
25 Dec 2018 [GRTV] Young adviser's success story
24 Dec 2018 FNZC buys OMF
24 Dec 2018 Landlords urged to act on insulation
24 Dec 2018 Adviser: Should case manager make the call?
22 Dec 2018 2018 an “interesting” year - REINZ
21 Dec 2018 OnePath rating cut
21 Dec 2018 Fidelity hires head of underwriting
21 Dec 2018 Mortgage lending to investors plummets
21 Dec 2018 1% OCR predicted; Investor lending plummets
21 Dec 2018 It's time to celebrate insurance and Christmas
21 Dec 2018 NZX stands out on global stage
20 Dec 2018 Fidelity Life announces retirement
20 Dec 2018 NZ shares rise as blue chips rally into holiday period; Spark gains
20 Dec 2018 Mortgage lending to investors plummets
20 Dec 2018 ANZ predicts 1% OCR in 2020
20 Dec 2018 Clients complain: Adviser should have told us to obtain notes
20 Dec 2018 Consilium joins FSC
20 Dec 2018 2018’s best performing suburbs
20 Dec 2018 Craigs Investment Partners hires adviser
20 Dec 2018 Credit unions to merge to compete; Heartland responds to RBNZ
20 Dec 2018 Q&A: Bluestone's Campbell Smyth and Peter Wood
20 Dec 2018 Heartland outlines cost of RBNZ rules
20 Dec 2018 Minister acknowledges slow pace of adviser laws
19 Dec 2018 Milford boss departs
19 Dec 2018 NZ shares gain as upcoming Fed meeting bolsters yield stocks; Sky TV gains
19 Dec 2018 AIA hires top underwriter
19 Dec 2018 Monitoring rental home quality
19 Dec 2018 MBIE estimates 1733 single-adviser firms in new regime
18 Dec 2018 Heartland sinks; Markets await US Fed's interest rate call
18 Dec 2018 NZ credit unions to merge
18 Dec 2018 Non-banks grow market share; RBNZ about to apply brakes to bank lending
18 Dec 2018 Desperately seeking answers
18 Dec 2018 Bank AFA force broadly steady
17 Dec 2018 NZ shares follow Asian rally; exporters F&P Health, A2 gain
17 Dec 2018 Non-bank surge to continue: KPMG
17 Dec 2018 Healthy Homes benefits overstated - economist
17 Dec 2018 RBNZ proposals will slow credit growth: Kiwibank
17 Dec 2018 Sub-4% rates over for SBS, TSB
17 Dec 2018 Salt adds former FMA exec to its board
17 Dec 2018 Rates up, BDM off, credit rules tweaked and more
17 Dec 2018 Landlording like a parent
17 Dec 2018 Morningstar committed to New Zealand
15 Dec 2018 [The Wrap] What it it will cost you to be licensed revealed
14 Dec 2018 NZ shares fall as investor uncertainty weighs on exporters; F&P Health, A2 drop
14 Dec 2018 Reserve Bank proposes new capital rules
14 Dec 2018 Fidelity appoints managers
14 Dec 2018 Mortgage Express makes Auckland hire
14 Dec 2018 Resimac tweaks credit assessments
14 Dec 2018 Take the property investor survey today
14 Dec 2018 Summer bounce means record prices
14 Dec 2018 Marketing boss steps down
14 Dec 2018 Want to know what it will cost to be licensed? Here's the answer
14 Dec 2018 How much you will have to pay to be an adviser revealed
14 Dec 2018 Govt moves to allow early KiwiSaver withdrawal
13 Dec 2018 NZ shares rise as optimism over US-China trade deal lingers; Fletcher gains
13 Dec 2018 Treasury predicts OCR hike in 2020
13 Dec 2018 Olympic gold medalist joins Consillium
13 Dec 2018 Not acceptable that ACC doesn't cover illness: OECD
13 Dec 2018 Carmen Moran leaves Westpac for Heartland
13 Dec 2018 Static Auckland rents suggest underlying problem
13 Dec 2018 What contribution rate should I have in order to retire?
13 Dec 2018 Guardians add chief investment officer
13 Dec 2018 FMA scores own goal with KiwiSaver tracker: Booster
13 Dec 2018 Financial services boosting NZ's bottom line
12 Dec 2018 NZ shares gain as Trade Me hits record on takeover
12 Dec 2018 30 Years in business
12 Dec 2018 Record profit for UDC
12 Dec 2018 AIA + Sovereign + You: Championing a healthier, better protected NZ
12 Dec 2018 Reserve Bank adds to senior leadership team
12 Dec 2018 Fight back on commissions; New construction lending option
12 Dec 2018 Partners Life beats its own targets
12 Dec 2018 What lies ahead in 2019
12 Dec 2018 Squirrel innovates with construction loans
12 Dec 2018 MBIE: Most advisers will continue
12 Dec 2018 Old approach won't always stack up
11 Dec 2018 Defensive stocks find favour on NZX; Contact, Meridian rise
11 Dec 2018 Cigna appoints from OnePath
11 Dec 2018 ASB appoints Vanguard as manager
11 Dec 2018 Aussie advisers fight back against reform
11 Dec 2018 Has the sun set on holiday rentals?
11 Dec 2018 Summits planned to help advisers navigate regulation
11 Dec 2018 IOOF directors under scrutiny
10 Dec 2018 NZ shares fall to 5-week low as trade tensions spook investors; A2 drops
10 Dec 2018 BNZ starts shared ownership scheme
10 Dec 2018 Financial Disputes Resolution expands committee
10 Dec 2018 New record for Wellington prices
10 Dec 2018 How big a problem is insurance fraud?
10 Dec 2018 Knowledge still lacking on KiwiSaver
10 Dec 2018 Law doesn't have to be broken for FMA to take action
09 Dec 2018 AIA helps foster kids
08 Dec 2018 dcsfg
07 Dec 2018 NZ shares rally on speculation of flat US rate track; Spark gains
07 Dec 2018 [The Wrap] The end of bank VIO is good for advisers, but are you ready?
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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