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September 2008
09 Sep 2008 34,000 bonds unclaimed
08 Sep 2008 ASB appoints new MD
08 Sep 2008 NZMBA Regional Days
08 Sep 2008 Bollard expected to cut rates on Thursday
08 Sep 2008 QV residential highlights
08 Sep 2008 News Round Up
08 Sep 2008 Sellers drop house prices for buyers
05 Sep 2008 Heat rising in housing policy
05 Sep 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
05 Sep 2008 Weekly Wrap: King takes King, but game still on
05 Sep 2008 Real Estate Agents Bill passed
05 Sep 2008 King takes King as IRG seeks mates
05 Sep 2008 Can trustees really police fin coys?
05 Sep 2008 Tower enhances Key Person cover
05 Sep 2008 AIG Life's Young moves on
04 Sep 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
04 Sep 2008 King says Dorchester investment “a disaster”
04 Sep 2008 Surge in central city rental levels
04 Sep 2008 Finance companies must get credit ratings
03 Sep 2008 Auckland house sales fell in August
03 Sep 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
03 Sep 2008 OCR cut will provide new focus
03 Sep 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
03 Sep 2008 Changes to KiwiSaver introduced
03 Sep 2008 GS JB Were adds a manager
02 Sep 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
02 Sep 2008 Property Development & Investment 2008
02 Sep 2008 Strategic deal done
02 Sep 2008 New chief at Pero
02 Sep 2008 New chief at Pero
01 Sep 2008 The National Partnership buys back-office
01 Sep 2008 ASSET: FAB finale - Last moves for advisers
01 Sep 2008 Strategic managers agree terms of $90m buyout
01 Sep 2008 Dominion Finance bad debt provision exceeds $80m
01 Sep 2008 ANZ, BNZ lift profits but lose mortgage market share
01 Sep 2008 News Round Up
01 Sep 2008 September issue – available now
01 Sep 2008 Manawatu: Rural riches
August 2008
29 Aug 2008 Weekly Wrap: ASIC imports for adviser regulation
29 Aug 2008 Dorchester’s deferred payment plan goes to trustees
29 Aug 2008 What drives the property market?
29 Aug 2008 Women in Super industry breakfast
29 Aug 2008 Southern Cross three managers up
29 Aug 2008 Call for clarity over grounds for eviction
29 Aug 2008 Advisers get guarded thumbs up on disclosure
29 Aug 2008 Changing of the guard
29 Aug 2008 Dorchester to take charge on St Laurence stake
29 Aug 2008 All predictions tracking downward
28 Aug 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
28 Aug 2008 ASFONZ 2008 National Conference & Super Expo
28 Aug 2008 $1b insulation fund launched
28 Aug 2008 ‘No slow down’ on adviser rules: Dalziel
27 Aug 2008 Kiwibank lifts profits and mortgage market share
27 Aug 2008 Canterbury economy on top
27 Aug 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
27 Aug 2008 Steaming ahead head act
27 Aug 2008 Practice management: Clear your head
27 Aug 2008 MARAC Finance reinvestment rate rises
27 Aug 2008 Web solution for KiwiSaver advice conundrum
27 Aug 2008 TSB's profit up, loan book down
26 Aug 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
26 Aug 2008 MARAC Finance reinvestment rate rises
26 Aug 2008 Inaugural Banking and Financial Services Law
26 Aug 2008 Fishers hook bigger stake in business
25 Aug 2008 South Canterbury profit falls 9.5% but still standing strong
25 Aug 2008 KNOCKOUT Series 1 Roadshow
25 Aug 2008 International Tax & Transfer Pricing Summit
25 Aug 2008 New Tower BDM
25 Aug 2008 News Round Up
25 Aug 2008 What regulation means for brokers
22 Aug 2008 Battle of boffins and buyers
22 Aug 2008 In force premiums up nearly 10%
22 Aug 2008 Take part in our survey for property investors
22 Aug 2008 Geneva to review loan book
22 Aug 2008 Tower Health adds new boss for intermediaries
22 Aug 2008 PIS aims to be number one in a year
21 Aug 2008 New Zealand Finance Sector Forum
21 Aug 2008 Prepare for action
21 Aug 2008 National supports adviser bill: Dalziel
20 Aug 2008 AXA appoints new GM
20 Aug 2008 Wow. A minister with passion!
20 Aug 2008 Slow but steady improvement
20 Aug 2008 Tweaking of mortgage rates continues
20 Aug 2008 Home loan report: Tweaking continues
20 Aug 2008 Strategic has loss of $15.5m on bad debts
20 Aug 2008 Employers backing away from super aid, study finds
20 Aug 2008 Property Development & Investment 2008
20 Aug 2008 Housing market optimism picks up
20 Aug 2008 Grosvenor takes icing off fund
20 Aug 2008 Opinion: The advantages of being second class
19 Aug 2008 PIS Annual Conference
19 Aug 2008 Adviser groups come together as one
18 Aug 2008 Clean Tech Investment Symposium
18 Aug 2008 New CIO at BT
18 Aug 2008 Banks may be softening anti-broker stance
18 Aug 2008 News Round Up
15 Aug 2008 Yvonne Davie to head up research house
15 Aug 2008 You make up your mind what is happening
15 Aug 2008 Weekly Wrap: Industry transmogrification
15 Aug 2008 No upturn ahead
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