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March 2009
02 Mar 2009 Deposit guarantee put to the test
02 Mar 2009 Morningstar 2008 Fund Manager of the Year Awards
02 Mar 2009 Companies called to lend a hand
02 Mar 2009 Mint job for Deacon
02 Mar 2009 Rates round-up
02 Mar 2009 Bawden's aggregation group to re-brand
02 Mar 2009 News round-up
02 Mar 2009 Women’s workshop highlights NZ potential
February 2009
28 Feb 2009 Weekly Wrap: ING the currency of the week
27 Feb 2009 Suddenly now is the time to buy property
27 Feb 2009 Three stars for Southern Cross
27 Feb 2009 MARAC profit falls 48%
27 Feb 2009 Housing confidence rises as prices slip
27 Feb 2009 The National Partnership
27 Feb 2009 Market’s not bottomed out yet – Tower
26 Feb 2009 Rates strategy delivers for Kiwibank
26 Feb 2009 AIG looking to sell all of AIA in Asia Pacific
26 Feb 2009 Life insurance sales strong
26 Feb 2009 The National Partnership
26 Feb 2009 ING unveils new rescue plan for CDO funds
26 Feb 2009 NZF to renegotiate Westpac funding after Genworth downgrade
26 Feb 2009 Advisers and loyalty
25 Feb 2009 Strategic posts first-half loss
25 Feb 2009 9th Annual Competition Law & Regulation Review Conference
25 Feb 2009 Using thinking preferences to connect with clients
25 Feb 2009 Manukau City: Face of the future
25 Feb 2009 The National Partnership
25 Feb 2009 High-end dealer group gathers steam
25 Feb 2009 TSB holds mortgage market share as profit drops
24 Feb 2009 Readers respond: Changes to RTA
24 Feb 2009 RTA changes swing favour towards landlords
24 Feb 2009 ING surgically removed as Medical's manager
24 Feb 2009 Rates round-up
23 Feb 2009 Avoid unexpected GST bills on apartment sales
23 Feb 2009 Bollard to cut rates again: economists debate the magnitude
23 Feb 2009 F&P Finance flourishing
23 Feb 2009 Curtin steps down from Mint
23 Feb 2009 News Round Up
20 Feb 2009 Rate Watch: Next round of cuts starting
20 Feb 2009 Weekly Wrap: Reveal week
20 Feb 2009 Goldridge expands it's adviser network
20 Feb 2009 AMP reinvigorating its adviser proposition
20 Feb 2009 IRD sets tight schedule for GST registration
19 Feb 2009 Tyndall's Andrew Hunt will be visiting New Zealand in March
19 Feb 2009 Mary Mary, quite contrary...
19 Feb 2009 AXA reports tough times
19 Feb 2009 Govt looks at regulating property managers
19 Feb 2009 RTA review under way by National
18 Feb 2009 BNZ share of mortgage market shrinks
18 Feb 2009 SHARE – Planning for Growth 2009
18 Feb 2009 Women in Super Breakfast.
18 Feb 2009 Opinion: Life by numbers
18 Feb 2009 Kiwibank hires 5 advisers while AMP tipped as fund provider
18 Feb 2009 English reassures property investors
17 Feb 2009 Fund manager of the year nominees announced
17 Feb 2009 Union members trickle through to Huljich
17 Feb 2009 United Home Loans unable to write new business
17 Feb 2009 Frightening rise in mortgagee sales: Yeah Right
17 Feb 2009 Asteron shuts retail super scheme as KiwiSaver kicks in
16 Feb 2009 Viento closes NZ office
16 Feb 2009 Market Review: February 2009 Commentary
16 Feb 2009 Market Review: London February 2009 Commentary
16 Feb 2009 TOWER: International Fixed Interest: A 2009 Recovery Story?
16 Feb 2009 AXA's rating improves
16 Feb 2009 News Round Up
16 Feb 2009 [Book] I Buy Houses: The Property Investor's Handbook
13 Feb 2009 Weekly Wrap: Who’s partnering with whom?
13 Feb 2009 Auckland City may raise $150m selling bonds
13 Feb 2009 House sales tumbled in January
13 Feb 2009 REINZ residential highlights - January 2009
13 Feb 2009 Where's the research?
12 Feb 2009 Home loan report: Cheap not always the easy option
12 Feb 2009 Cheap not always the easy option
12 Feb 2009 Paying pocket money makes a difference
12 Feb 2009 [Toolbox] The Tax Files
11 Feb 2009 Info about KiwiSaver changes availible
10 Feb 2009 ING closes another fund and delays CDO fund meeting
10 Feb 2009 BNZ's asset quality under pressure
10 Feb 2009 SBS adds five-year bond
10 Feb 2009 AXA makes play for Gould but game still on
10 Feb 2009 Health cover up as markets go down
10 Feb 2009 Sovereign scores Best mark
09 Feb 2009 PIS Strategic Planning Feedback Days
09 Feb 2009 Call for action over break fees
09 Feb 2009 Moody’s downgrades Packaged Income Notes
09 Feb 2009 News Round Up
09 Feb 2009 Tax bill delayed
09 Feb 2009 Residential highlights - January 2009
09 Feb 2009 House prices down 8.3%, affordability up
06 Feb 2009 Money at Work: Meridian Energy's Renewable Energy Notes
06 Feb 2009 Money at Work: Meridian Energy's Renewable Energy Notes
06 Feb 2009 Weekly Wrap: No retirement yet
05 Feb 2009 Mr Good News here again
05 Feb 2009 South Canterbury Finance bonds snapped up
05 Feb 2009 It's a great time to borrow
05 Feb 2009 Time for the association mega-merger?
05 Feb 2009 No retirement for old men and women, survey says
04 Feb 2009 It's a great time to borrow
04 Feb 2009 Auckland house sales, prices fell in January
04 Feb 2009 Opinion: Too good at selling life insurance?
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