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May 2011
16 May 2011 Rental property top investment choice for Aucklanders
15 May 2011 News Round Up: May 16
13 May 2011 OnePath, two milestones
13 May 2011 The Trust Company has confirmed key appointments at Guardian Trust
13 May 2011 Floating rate predictions
13 May 2011 Last quarter's winners and losers
13 May 2011 National just doesn't get saving
13 May 2011 What we learnt this week
13 May 2011 New fund manager leverages wealthy connections
12 May 2011 Fisher Funds strikes KiwiSaver deal with Mike Pero
12 May 2011 Time to make KiwiSaver predictable and sustainable - ISI
12 May 2011 KiwiSaver should be used to pay down student debt - Fidelity Life
12 May 2011 New life sales down in March quarter
12 May 2011 FMA's power to investigate unclear
12 May 2011 First time buyers, investors an increased presence in market
11 May 2011 Cuts to KiwiSaver tax credit but no 'slash and burn' Budget, says Key
11 May 2011 Prices down, sales up and a new all-time median high for Auckland
11 May 2011 TSB's one-year rate a clear leader
11 May 2011 Nest-egg laying KiwiSaver to have its wings clipped
11 May 2011 Savings and insurance – the same as home loans and insurance
11 May 2011 REINZ regional commentaries - April 2011
10 May 2011 Amadeus appoints new CEO
10 May 2011 HSBC appoints new NZ CEO
10 May 2011 QV sees value stability spread
10 May 2011 NZF in the balance
10 May 2011 NZF's position delicately placed: S&P
10 May 2011 QV April - the regions
10 May 2011 NZ house prices over valued, says IMF
09 May 2011 OnePath boosts life sales team
09 May 2011 Budget to include KiwiSaver changes
09 May 2011 News Round Up: May 10
09 May 2011 AFA Monitoring & Registration Spot Checks Kick Off
09 May 2011 Kiwibank ends special
09 May 2011 Opportunities for investors in Auckland expansion proposals
09 May 2011 King's Counsel
06 May 2011 SBS Bank makes risk appointment
06 May 2011 Budget to include KiwiSaver changes
06 May 2011 Unlucky 13 - Auckland weekly rent down on March
06 May 2011 Don't tinker with KiwiSaver in Budget: WSNZ
06 May 2011 Where there’s compliance, there’s cash
06 May 2011 Sovereign takes more aggressive position
06 May 2011 Floating rates growing in popularity
06 May 2011 Sovereign gets more competitive
06 May 2011 House prices ‘will rise' says BNZ
06 May 2011 Floating rates growing in popularity
05 May 2011 Still quiet, on the surface
05 May 2011 Aussie commission ban unlikely to cross Tasman
05 May 2011 Housing consent numbers back to 1982 levels
04 May 2011 Australia to ban superannuation-linked insurance commissions
04 May 2011 Experienced expat returns to Fisher Funds
04 May 2011 Doors close at Irongate
04 May 2011 Talent pool inadequate to support funds servicing - survey
04 May 2011 No one followed
04 May 2011 April sales price a record for month - Barfoot & Thompson
03 May 2011 South Canterbury Finance's Scales stake sold for $44m
03 May 2011 Quake cools deposit war: KPMG
03 May 2011 Mystery still surrounds NZF's new equity partner
03 May 2011 The days of generalist advice gone: Holland
02 May 2011 Sovereign leads off changes
02 May 2011 In these uncertain times
02 May 2011 Morarji moves on from BT
02 May 2011 Mortgage Link’s up with Strategi
02 May 2011 Auckland leads the rent charge
02 May 2011 Property market soothsayers and silver linings
02 May 2011 Asking prices hit four-year high
01 May 2011 News Round Up: May 2
01 May 2011 Geneva gets a little ratings upgrade
01 May 2011 AIA: Good behaviour, bad attitude?
April 2011
29 Apr 2011 Heartland gets the nod
29 Apr 2011 Borrowing could boost fund's impressive returns
29 Apr 2011 Kiwibank ends special
29 Apr 2011 Equities picked as place to be
29 Apr 2011 Alloway resigns as Allied Farmers director
29 Apr 2011 Switch decision could put floaters in a fix
28 Apr 2011 Share performance boosts KiwiSaver returns over March quarter
28 Apr 2011 Rental property tax treatment helped inflate property values - OECD
28 Apr 2011 OCR likely to stay low for some time: RBNZ
28 Apr 2011 Subsidies hampering KiwiSaver - OECD
28 Apr 2011 Floating rates won't be rising anytime soon
28 Apr 2011 Floating mortgage rates won't be rising any time soon
28 Apr 2011 Floating mortgage rates won't be rising any time soon
28 Apr 2011 NZ Funds KiwiSaver gets thumbs up from Lonsec
28 Apr 2011 OCR likely to stay put for some time
28 Apr 2011 OCR unchanged and likely to stay that way for some time
28 Apr 2011 Mayhew and the malcontented Seven
28 Apr 2011 The economists view on the OCR
27 Apr 2011 Perpetual adds to its adviser team
27 Apr 2011 House prices to rise 4%
27 Apr 2011 Financial advisers – the public perception
27 Apr 2011 House prices to rise 4% - Westpac
27 Apr 2011 Momentum building in house market, according to ANZ
25 Apr 2011 Focus on rate rises
25 Apr 2011 Interest rate focus moves to when next increases start
21 Apr 2011 NZ Funds sets up wealth management business
21 Apr 2011 Vidler heads off down a new track
21 Apr 2011 The Ordinary is Death to the Insurance Broker
21 Apr 2011 Lull continues
21 Apr 2011 Death of an (insurance) salesman
21 Apr 2011 Survey points to property investment market pick-up
20 Apr 2011 Stewart joins AMP boards
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
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Simon Papa: Access to advice - Is adviser conservatism the issue?
Simon Papa: Access to advice - Is adviser conservatism the issue?
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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.
1 week 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.
1 week 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