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March 2017
23 Mar 2017 Partners gets an upgrade from AM Best
23 Mar 2017 BNZ adopts ethical screen on investments
23 Mar 2017 Reaction: OCR - 'Nothing to see here'
23 Mar 2017 OCR decision: 'Nothing to see here'
23 Mar 2017 OCR left on hold: Here's why
23 Mar 2017 What the RB governor said
23 Mar 2017 OCR left on hold: Here's why
23 Mar 2017 JBWere appoints adviser
23 Mar 2017 Dodds: All Blacks must be better than club rugby
23 Mar 2017 Government 'suffocating' peer-to-peer
23 Mar 2017 Ethical fund set for ASX wants Kiwi money
22 Mar 2017 All quiet in lead up to tomorrow's OCR announcement
22 Mar 2017 Generate adds senior portfolio manager
22 Mar 2017 MBIE: Tell us what's better than FAR
22 Mar 2017 Bright line test dents flipping
21 Mar 2017 Migration driver powers on
21 Mar 2017 Improve urban development in NZ - OECD
21 Mar 2017 AIA New Zealand appoints new CEO
21 Mar 2017 KiwiSaver transfer lags a concern
21 Mar 2017 HFANZ: Health costs need attention, too
21 Mar 2017 AMP Capital drops tobacco
20 Mar 2017 Newpark appoints national sales manager
20 Mar 2017 Fidelity adds sales boss
20 Mar 2017 Three rises from SBS
20 Mar 2017 Getting to grips with body corporates
19 Mar 2017 Future returns may be half what investors used to: Singh
19 Mar 2017 First landlord conviction under new tenancy law
17 Mar 2017 Next to no chance of OCR cut
17 Mar 2017 Bold move equals big success
17 Mar 2017 Friday news in brief
17 Mar 2017 FMA files charges over insurance policies
17 Mar 2017 ANZ makes just one change
17 Mar 2017 No monitoring team, no plan for AFAs: FMA
17 Mar 2017 Rent for “typical” NZ house hits all-time high
16 Mar 2017 New fire regs costly, complex for investors
16 Mar 2017 Fed lifts interest rate
16 Mar 2017 Code Committee voices objections
16 Mar 2017 Timing key for contrarian investing
15 Mar 2017 Give tenants greater security - TOP
15 Mar 2017 Agents to 'bid' for new property listings
15 Mar 2017 Negative gearing to go...under Labour
15 Mar 2017 Labour: Support for regulation change
15 Mar 2017 Decline in price growth optimism
14 Mar 2017 Negative gearing to go under Labour
14 Mar 2017 Let's get these adviser rules right
14 Mar 2017 TSB raises rates
14 Mar 2017 White takes top AMP prize again
14 Mar 2017 Clients' retirement can be ruined by one bad year
13 Mar 2017 Hunter Hall to tell shareholders to back merger
13 Mar 2017 Are you being double-taxed?
13 Mar 2017 Auckland house prices down - again
13 Mar 2017 Nikko appointments new Head of Product and Operations
13 Mar 2017 Trump & The Outlook US Profits
13 Mar 2017 Warminger's trial shows traders' purpose important
13 Mar 2017 They don’t start out caring, making them care is our job
13 Mar 2017 Market flat line continues
10 Mar 2017 What have we learnt this week?
10 Mar 2017 Bridging the finance gap
10 Mar 2017 QROPS providers surprised by tax change
10 Mar 2017 Consumers 'deserve clarity'
10 Mar 2017 REAA gets tough on flipping
09 Mar 2017 Smaller options drive February rebound
09 Mar 2017 Apartments lead the way for Christchurch
09 Mar 2017 Bringing clarity to meth drug haze
09 Mar 2017 Managers pay up for licenses
08 Mar 2017 Share adds advisers
08 Mar 2017 FSC welcomes super move
08 Mar 2017 Auckland affordability a credit negative - Moodys
08 Mar 2017 More changes
08 Mar 2017 FMA: No hard lines on KiwiSaver incentives
08 Mar 2017 Pension age change a minor hiccup for advice clients
08 Mar 2017 Fringe areas approved for urban growth
08 Mar 2017 Illegal renting charge for Molesworth landlord
08 Mar 2017 Insurer tackles meth contamination confusion
07 Mar 2017 KiwiSaver feels hit of rising interest rates
07 Mar 2017 New chairman for Fidelity
07 Mar 2017 DTIs should be in RBNZ toolkit - IMF
07 Mar 2017 Partners to write business without underwriting
07 Mar 2017 Election 2017: what investors need to know
07 Mar 2017 Kiwibank follows suit but still competitive
07 Mar 2017 Risky masonry streets identified
07 Mar 2017 Advice stalwart farewelled
07 Mar 2017 Advisers must add value in digital future
07 Mar 2017 Robo development under way
06 Mar 2017 Super age to rise
06 Mar 2017 Stubbs_Sam
06 Mar 2017 Airbnb sub-letting breaches RTA – Tribunal
06 Mar 2017 Consents trending down
06 Mar 2017 ANZ takes floating rates higher
06 Mar 2017 US rate rise likely this month
06 Mar 2017 Low-cost model better for advisers: Simplicity
06 Mar 2017 Elevation signs Australian deal
03 Mar 2017 Court says Warminger manipulated the market
03 Mar 2017 Limited action at lower end of market
03 Mar 2017 Time to invest in Auckland Central
03 Mar 2017 Study options 'discriminatory'
03 Mar 2017 MBIE missed the mark
02 Mar 2017 Renfrew's firm joins Consilium platform
02 Mar 2017 Auction rates reflect quieter market
02 Mar 2017 OCR could go either way, RBNZ says
Latest News
Pie Funds enters adviser channel
Pie Funds enters adviser channel
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KiwiSaver members need more advice at retirement, panellists say
KiwiSaver members need more advice at retirement, panellists say
3 min read
Simon Papa: Access to advice - Is adviser conservatism the issue?
Simon Papa: Access to advice - Is adviser conservatism the issue?
9 min read
Second funds management firm sold today
Second funds management firm sold today
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Latest Comments
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
Thank you Backstage. Look beyond just the structure/s. Currently, both employee and employer's contribution are taxed. So, even if I add a 3rd option - $100k salary of which $12k deducted for KS and no employer contribution. It made no difference financially whether it is option a, b or c, assuming law says $12k of the $100k pay package must go to KS. It will make a difference if a new tax law says, employer's contribution is tax free, then option "a" is a no brainer.
2 weeks ago W K
Simon Papa: Access to advice - Is adviser conservatism the issue?
Thank you Simon for such a substantial and thought-provoking piece. You write that “the CoFI law creates the potential for the FMA to influence the supply of financial products and services, not just conduct in relation to such supply”, to which I would offer two replies: Yes; and About Time. Your piece (and also your submission on the draft Fair Outcomes Guide) do suggest a preference for Rational Choice Theory and the Efficient Market Hypothesis. The problems with this being: Humans are not ideally-rational agents, and even if they were, the market is problematically inefficient. The latter is by design, by and for the benefit of the financial institutions. Informational asymmetries mean that consumers often don’t/can’t obtain the information they need to make an informed choice about whether to acquire, retain, or dispose of a financial advice product. (Good luck finding out the actual/modelled loss ratio on optional benefit x on product y.) Extending conduct requirements/expectations beyond supply, into areas such as design and pricing over the full life cycle of products and service offered, should help rebalance the scales. I agree with you when you write: “What is “fair” is inherently vague and contestable.” It doesn’t follow that it is unsuitable. Financial services law is full of such terms: “reasonable,” “care,” “diligence,” and “skill” immediately spring to mind. “Unusually large transaction” and “unusual pattern of transactions” from 22(1)(c) of the AML/CFT Act are vague, and currently subject to contest in FMA v InvestNow. Finally, I agree that more FADC cases would be helpful. Also helpful would be more details from enforcement cases the FMA has taken over the years. For example: Where a FAP was found to have breached the Record Keeping standard condition, provide a couple of (suitably redacted) examples of deficient files, along with explanatory commentary. If your files look like that, then do better.
2 weeks ago Paul Flood
Give Total Rem the flick if KiwiSaver compulsory
@WK agree with your summary and Murray, "exactly". Im a little confused about the statement, total rem has got to go? Even more confused by am mentat... blatant wage theft? Confused about young people not thinking about retirement or insurance? I have had the unfortunate experience at times working for multi national insurance companies and I do not recall them trying to get their mits on my wages, when did this happen? For centuries young people have not been able to picture themselves retired or believe that they will be multi-millionaires by this time. By the way, i bet they have a bank account. Hopefully am mentat works it out or, if he is a prosperous employer just continues to give give give to his employees with wild abandon and continues to cheer on any political parties that place more financial burdens on small business where generally the owner has risked all to try and get ahead. Employing people and helping in this way to provide for there families also.
2 weeks ago Darryl Scott
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...
2 weeks 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.
2 weeks ago Ross Alexander