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April 2011
20 Apr 2011 A new era of opportunity for professional bodies
20 Apr 2011 Pre Easter lull
20 Apr 2011 Plus4 adds two
20 Apr 2011 Sec Com seeks consultation on revised ABS guide
20 Apr 2011 New Unit Title Act guidelines
19 Apr 2011 Easier access to KiwiSaver cash for quake-affected Cantabrians
19 Apr 2011 Looking ahead to OCR
19 Apr 2011 KiwiSaver numbers up ahead of Budget
19 Apr 2011 Elevation offers to lift returns
19 Apr 2011 Christchurch exodus soaks up rental capacity - First National
18 Apr 2011 News Round Up: April 18
18 Apr 2011 Trass trashes REINZ
15 Apr 2011 Andy Morris joins senior ranks of NZAM
15 Apr 2011 NZ Funds boosts investment team
15 Apr 2011 Treasury predicted SCF's failure early on
15 Apr 2011 Kiwibank's lowest ever rate
15 Apr 2011 SCF's "good bank" on the market
15 Apr 2011 March housing market strength no flash in the pan - BNZ
14 Apr 2011 NZMBA gets a GM and 8th board member
14 Apr 2011 No changes today
14 Apr 2011 Disclosure disclosed
14 Apr 2011 ISO plans overhaul after membership explosion
14 Apr 2011 For landlords a feast in Auckland, famine elsewhere
13 Apr 2011 Overcoming underinsurance
13 Apr 2011 Opinion: Are Genesis Energy's capital bonds worth buying?
13 Apr 2011 Hewes rejoins Sovereign
13 Apr 2011 SCF receivers sell major asset
13 Apr 2011 Auckland house sales up 53.2% on month - REINZ
13 Apr 2011 IFA calls for (common) credit where its due
13 Apr 2011 NZF sets a date
13 Apr 2011 The REINZ reaction
13 Apr 2011 REINZ regional commentaries - March 2011
12 Apr 2011 AIA New Zealand announces new appointments
12 Apr 2011 NZMBA relocates its conference
12 Apr 2011 Fix or float?
12 Apr 2011 To fix or float? That is the question
12 Apr 2011 Tower positions for inflation
12 Apr 2011 The full Nelson - only one location keeps grip on property values - QV
11 Apr 2011 Outlook bleak for Allied Farmers
11 Apr 2011 NZMBA recruits new team members
11 Apr 2011 We talk to Finance Direct
11 Apr 2011 News Round Up: April 11
11 Apr 2011 Finance Direct concentrates on brokerage
11 Apr 2011 Fix mortgage rates now - Tower
08 Apr 2011 Call centre company answers the QFE call
08 Apr 2011 S&P's view on Genesis's new bonds
07 Apr 2011 The property investment ‘loophole’
07 Apr 2011 Outrageous to ban property investment
07 Apr 2011 Support Chch Brokers
07 Apr 2011 The mysterious case of the Allied Farmers' $7m guarantee which wasn't
07 Apr 2011 Adviser regulation offers ‘fantastic’ opportunities: OnePath
07 Apr 2011 $200,000 fine for ‘Why rent' promoter
07 Apr 2011 Government prepared to bail out AMI
06 Apr 2011 Geneva gets an SD rating
06 Apr 2011 Fundraising for Christchurch Mortgage Advisers
06 Apr 2011 PTO backs brokers
06 Apr 2011 Market leading products, market rate commission
06 Apr 2011 Public Trust returns to lending market
06 Apr 2011 TOWER Health has new BDM
06 Apr 2011 Record rents for Auckland
05 Apr 2011 Newpark to providers – follow my lead
05 Apr 2011 ANZ National go for a six
05 Apr 2011 After April Fools Day, the smart numbers
04 Apr 2011 WOOF! Unaffordablie housing alert
04 Apr 2011 SCF likely to cost an extra $331 mill
04 Apr 2011 4 April: New deadlines for Christchurch advisers
04 Apr 2011 PROPERTY out
04 Apr 2011 Cold water poured on overheating market claims
03 Apr 2011 News Round Up: April 4
02 Apr 2011 Perpetual Adviser Tribute
01 Apr 2011 Fisher & Paykel Finance gets ratings news from S&P
01 Apr 2011 Dorchester Property Trust trading above budget
01 Apr 2011 AIA: What’s in a brand?
01 Apr 2011 Advisers needed to sell KiwiSaver
01 Apr 2011 Fisher Funds lands Huljich KiwiSaver
01 Apr 2011 Ex Mortgage Express boss on God's work
01 Apr 2011 New life company looking for adviser partners
01 Apr 2011 New listings up in March, though still down on year earlier
March 2011
31 Mar 2011 Geneva staves off recievership
31 Mar 2011 HSBC's mortgage book growth stalls
31 Mar 2011 NZF rate change
31 Mar 2011 Farewell to Angus Dale-Jones
31 Mar 2011 A perfect circle
31 Mar 2011 Financial advice sector ‘medium to high risk’ for money laundering
31 Mar 2011 Government launches inquiry into housing affordability
30 Mar 2011 Sovereign appoints new Adviser Distribution general manager
30 Mar 2011 Advisers get extension, but some don't want one
30 Mar 2011 RBNZ considers LVR restrictions
30 Mar 2011 Housing consents hit two-year low
29 Mar 2011 Quiet quiet quiet
29 Mar 2011 Employers sees benefits in health plans
29 Mar 2011 Final countdown - Tips and reminders
29 Mar 2011 Latest AFA numbers
29 Mar 2011 Christchurch offers potential for property investment boom - maybe
28 Mar 2011 Wesfarmers expands NZ insurance operations
28 Mar 2011 George Gould steps down from BSH board
28 Mar 2011 News Round Up: March 28
28 Mar 2011 Allied Farmers may write down $23m loan; wants McKenna bankrupted
28 Mar 2011 New advisers at Mortgage Link
25 Mar 2011 ASB does the 18month drop
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