Financial Tips & Guides
The number of farms sold in the three months to July was down by a quarter compared to a year earlier. Prices overall were firmer. Only 84 farms were sold in July, and only five were dairy farms for all of NZ although that is Read More …
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Banks have ramped up their risk and compliance staff in the face of mounting pressure from regulators but it’s coming at a cost with recruiters saying salaries have rocketed up amongst a shortfall in locally qualified people.
Barfoot & Thompson manages nearly 16,500 residential rental properties on behalf of landlords, and says the rate at which rents for those properties have been rising has been slowing since at least early 2016.
The New Zealand arm of the bank alone made a profit of more than half a billion dollars in the six months to the end of March 2019. The Australasian operations made AU$8 billion (NZ$8.3b) last year.
It is rare that every major bank offers exactly the same rate for their one and two year fixed offerings. It is also somewhat unusual for the mortgage market to be this competitive in winter and before the launch of the spring real estate season. Read More …
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Tim Fairhall, who lives in a house in Te Atatū run by the Kōtuku Trust, is “positively dancing” after the Government announced today that it would give early access to KiwiSaver to several hundred people with life-shortening conditions.
The financial sector has had a very turbulent decade, from times of recession to areas of growth, the financial sector is very unpredictable. Whether we are talking about car insurance, farm insurance or general taxation, the financial sector is all around us. We will now Read More …
Berry said that New Zealand was an outlier when it came to gender equality at the board table, and unless New Zealand listed companies could demonstrate a commitment to gender equality at board level, they would be excluded from CareSaver investments.
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Simon O’Connor, chief executive of the RIAA, said the growth in responsible investment had slowed in the New Zealand market and was now moving towards cementing and maturing what was already in place.
Let’s have a look at the financial trends for this month, in New Zealand and all over the world. Globally this week finished on a high, with the S&P 500 rounding up at 4.4%, the best week after week gain in half a year. In Read More …