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February 2010
02 Feb 2010 Reserve Bank considers liquidity controls for non-bank deposit takers
02 Feb 2010 First Step investors will likely get more repayments this year
02 Feb 2010 Butler leaves
02 Feb 2010 Wellington house market holds up
01 Feb 2010 Auckland Anniversay Day
01 Feb 2010 Ross Butler resigns from Mortgage Link to protect integrity
01 Feb 2010 News round-up
January 2010
31 Jan 2010 Rates Round Up
31 Jan 2010 Finance Direct takes big steps in deposit rate competition
29 Jan 2010 Economists divided on when OCR will rise
29 Jan 2010 Bank liquidity requirements could keep rate hikes to a minimum
29 Jan 2010 Morningstar looking for new CEO
29 Jan 2010 Building consents stall in December amid falling home sales
29 Jan 2010 Property investment rules to change - forever
29 Jan 2010 Commission to clarify definition of financial planning service
29 Jan 2010 Double Bolly
28 Jan 2010 Geneva Finance to lose its wholesale funding
28 Jan 2010 Current vs five-year average
28 Jan 2010 UPDATE: Bollard holds OCR; expects to hike about mid-year
28 Jan 2010 OCR Update Jan2010
28 Jan 2010 OCR holds, mid-year rate hike still likely
28 Jan 2010 FULL RBNZ SPEECH: OCR unchanged at 2.5%
28 Jan 2010 Young ones think KiwiSaver enough for retirement
28 Jan 2010 NZ's two favourites: Rental property and the All Blacks
27 Jan 2010 OCR holder
27 Jan 2010 Marchmont keeps mum on identity; Stalls on Strategic queries
27 Jan 2010 OCR review to be requisitely boring
27 Jan 2010 Housing market stalling?
27 Jan 2010 Former ASB adviser to plead guilty to $18m fraud
27 Jan 2010 First NZ Capital chief joins Auckland University council
27 Jan 2010 Silver Fern moves
26 Jan 2010 SFO finance company investigations – too late?
26 Jan 2010 Good buy: Auckland leasehold apartments
26 Jan 2010 Restrictions removed from ANZ Simple Variable rate
26 Jan 2010 NZ Funds mildly optimistic about this year
25 Jan 2010 Budget for floating rates to rise 3%
25 Jan 2010 New independent director for SHARE
25 Jan 2010 [Weeky Wrap] Back to school for advisers
25 Jan 2010 News round up
24 Jan 2010 OCR preview
24 Jan 2010 Marac unveils non-guaranteed deposit rates
24 Jan 2010 Banks tussle in 6 month deposit space; Allied Farmers looks long
24 Jan 2010 Economists expect RBNZ to leave OCR unchanged
22 Jan 2010 Mercer's top 10 investment trends for 2010
22 Jan 2010 Westpac ups 6 and 18month rates
22 Jan 2010 Share funds have a bumper 2009
22 Jan 2010 ASB's view on the OCR
21 Jan 2010 New MD for Tyndall
21 Jan 2010 OCR Forecast
21 Jan 2010 Southern Cross gets approval for critical illness
21 Jan 2010 CPI good news
21 Jan 2010 Huljich to relaunch non-KiwiSaver funds
20 Jan 2010 Top broker morphs firm
20 Jan 2010 Would the Nats really whack property investors?
20 Jan 2010 PGG Wrightson optimistic about fortunes in 2010
20 Jan 2010 Investors face double-whammy in tax proposals
20 Jan 2010 Misleading talk will lead to bad tax decisions
20 Jan 2010 Expert Views
19 Jan 2010 CPD rules get industry thumbs-up
19 Jan 2010 CPI to decide cash rate
19 Jan 2010 Milford grabs Westpac's head of wealth operations
19 Jan 2010 IRD's views on depreciation challenged
18 Jan 2010 Mascot failure likely to cost taxpayers $33 million
18 Jan 2010 House prices up but sales levels concerning
18 Jan 2010 REINZ residential highlights - December 2009
18 Jan 2010 ASB first to hike
18 Jan 2010 News round-up
17 Jan 2010 Wallwork switches camps
17 Jan 2010 Rates Round Up
16 Jan 2010 Strategi Institute established
16 Jan 2010 Deposit rate war kicks off 2010 in longer-dated space
15 Jan 2010 KiwiSaver OK for UK transfers
15 Jan 2010 Sovereign gets big tick from AM Best
15 Jan 2010 Housing Corp third to move
15 Jan 2010 Caution restrains bargain hunting
14 Jan 2010 Health Funds calls for Nats to revisit rebate for over-65s
14 Jan 2010 Home-building and hospitals push up November building consents
14 Jan 2010 Investing made easy: Taking heed of the past
14 Jan 2010 No changes
14 Jan 2010 Fund managers move to broker firm
13 Jan 2010 Fidelity pays investors after 18-month wait
13 Jan 2010 FundSource gets new head
13 Jan 2010 Matthew Wood opens executive search firm
13 Jan 2010 CU North second to move
13 Jan 2010 Opinion: Spare a thought...
12 Jan 2010 Rates Round Up
12 Jan 2010 Self-evaluation tool for advisers launched
12 Jan 2010 IRD quietly raises changes to depreciation
11 Jan 2010 S&P take a wait and see approach to South Canterbury
11 Jan 2010 Strategic’s Finnigan winds back hours to help cut costs
11 Jan 2010 House values gain in 09
07 Jan 2010 AMP fund hiccup finally cured
07 Jan 2010 Auckland house prices stabilising at boom-time levels
07 Jan 2010 Fin Coy offers new, higher rates
07 Jan 2010 Receivers update investors on failed fin coys over holiday period
06 Jan 2010 Bridgecorp receivers all but give up on Momi
06 Jan 2010 Strategic's future in the balance
06 Jan 2010 Bridgecorp receivers all but give up on Momi
05 Jan 2010 Strategic Finance bank debt knocks down first repayment to investors
05 Jan 2010 SBS holds its home loan market share
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