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October 2009
02 Oct 2009 Simplifying redundancy with new product
02 Oct 2009 Auditors tag SCF accounts on funding worries
02 Oct 2009 Nelson BS increases rates
02 Oct 2009 Pathfinder blazes way with fee cap
02 Oct 2009 Land tax favoured by working group rather than CGT
01 Oct 2009 Benign period for rates
01 Oct 2009 SCF loss less than first announced
01 Oct 2009 Sellers' confidence leads to surge in listings
01 Oct 2009 Smith leaving NZF
01 Oct 2009 SBS and NZF up
01 Oct 2009 Couillault to establish new fund
September 2009
30 Sep 2009 Strategic Finance investors told to hope for the best
30 Sep 2009 Ballantyne boards another board
30 Sep 2009 Finsia industry update: Reserve Bank of New Zealand
30 Sep 2009 ISI reappoints two on board
30 Sep 2009 ISI scores some wins for industry over anti-money laundering laws
30 Sep 2009 Meridian’s bond issue won’t dent demand for high-grade corporate debt
30 Sep 2009 Opinion: Quick need not be dirty
30 Sep 2009 Property managers to charge letting fees
29 Sep 2009 Insurers need to improve consumer confidence
29 Sep 2009 Building approvals climb for second month
29 Sep 2009 RTA changes reach next phase
29 Sep 2009 New commissioner leaving jackboots behind
29 Sep 2009 Credit Union Auckland seeks credit rating to protect reputation
28 Sep 2009 BNZ follows suit
28 Sep 2009 Reserve Bank's OCR forecasts unlikely: ASB
28 Sep 2009 Mortgagee sales at all-time high
28 Sep 2009 Listed property stocks set to soar
28 Sep 2009 Quiet start to week
28 Sep 2009 News round-up
27 Sep 2009 Rates Round Up
25 Sep 2009 Avanti Finance gets rating from S&P
25 Sep 2009 ANZ's domination of ING no surprise
25 Sep 2009 Borrowing strategy should have been sorted last year
25 Sep 2009 ANZ to buy ING for A$1.76b
25 Sep 2009 ANZ to mop up the rest of ING
25 Sep 2009 Bluechip case no benchmark: Chapman Tripp
25 Sep 2009 [Weekly Wrap] ANZ about to buy ING
25 Sep 2009 Numbers up, but don't get too excited just yet
25 Sep 2009 Housing affordability 'fair', borrowers locking in longer mortgages
25 Sep 2009 Moratoria slow-death for finance companies rather than quick: Diplock
25 Sep 2009 The yield curve creeps up
24 Sep 2009 Long term fixed rates look unattractive
24 Sep 2009 Moratoria slow-death for finance companies rather than quick: Diplock
24 Sep 2009 Weekly: The changing face of rates
24 Sep 2009 Listed property trust sector set to soar
24 Sep 2009 Bye bye AXA
24 Sep 2009 Theme chaser fund debuts
24 Sep 2009 Banks deposits and managed funds win over fin coys
24 Sep 2009 New website listing not-for-sale properties, for sale
23 Sep 2009 Marac admits errors, and says not again
23 Sep 2009 Housing market continues positive growth
23 Sep 2009 Field tilts sharply
23 Sep 2009 Westpac steepens curve
23 Sep 2009 KiwiSaver survey: the full numbers revealed
23 Sep 2009 Commission disclosure a furphy, PAA says
23 Sep 2009 Practice management: Lighten up
22 Sep 2009 RBNZ will decide results of TD war
22 Sep 2009 Long term interest rates rise at Westpac
22 Sep 2009 Jenny Shipley joins ISI board
22 Sep 2009 Rate rise warning
22 Sep 2009 Dead KiwiSaver members get direct payment
22 Sep 2009 Blue Chip verdict highlights age-old problem
21 Sep 2009 Warning: Interest rates could rise rapidly
21 Sep 2009 Fidelity dumps ING as fixed interest manager
21 Sep 2009 SCF placed on CreditWatch negative
21 Sep 2009 New Commissioner of Financial Advisers appointed
21 Sep 2009 Macquarie adds two more to advice team
21 Sep 2009 Newpark launches new aggregation service
21 Sep 2009 News round-up
20 Sep 2009 Rates Round Up
18 Sep 2009 Time to sell good quality corporate bonds
18 Sep 2009 Some advisers amaze me
18 Sep 2009 [Weekly Wrap] Stirring the pot: tax and taskforces
18 Sep 2009 Stop the misleading talk around property
18 Sep 2009 Declaring war
18 Sep 2009 How far they have fallen
18 Sep 2009 Chote chooses AMP
18 Sep 2009 Weekly round up
18 Sep 2009 Capital gains tax to focus on equity
18 Sep 2009 Taskforce not so negative on managed funds
18 Sep 2009 Tower loses investment veteran to Todd
17 Sep 2009 Forecasting interest rates highly uncertain exercise
17 Sep 2009 BNZ claims the lowest floating home loan rate
17 Sep 2009 BNZ sets new low for floating rates
17 Sep 2009 Opinion: Can you shortlist? Can you choose?
17 Sep 2009 ASFONZ & Women in Super Auckland Industry Breakfast
17 Sep 2009 Ballantyne jumps on board with Accuro
17 Sep 2009 Cross- party consensus that regulation won’t stifle risk
17 Sep 2009 Online info most popular with property buyers
16 Sep 2009 OPI (aka MFS) finally succumbs to receiver
16 Sep 2009 South Canterbury ceases debenture allotments
16 Sep 2009 ASFONZ & Women in Super Wellington Industry Breakfast
16 Sep 2009 The National Partnership Spring Summer Series
16 Sep 2009 Adviser pays to clear charges
16 Sep 2009 'Dressed up' property deals to be caught under new regulation
15 Sep 2009 S&P checks Equitable's ratings
15 Sep 2009 New Sovereign MD announced
15 Sep 2009 PSIS launches new PIE fund
15 Sep 2009 COMBI Series6 Unlocking the potential of the world’s commodity market
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