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June 2008
27 Jun 2008 Weekly Wrap: What a week
27 Jun 2008 Retreating residential rents
27 Jun 2008 Kiwibank's mortgage book not as risky as it looks
27 Jun 2008 8 reasons why you should use independent product analysis
27 Jun 2008 Don't miss the KiwiSaver boat
27 Jun 2008 Strategic Finance MBO on cards
27 Jun 2008 ASB Group appoints portfolio managers
27 Jun 2008 One of the biggest challenges facing property investors
27 Jun 2008 Toolbox: Easy as tax
26 Jun 2008 AIG Life Roadshow 2008
26 Jun 2008 AIG Life Roadshow 2008
26 Jun 2008 The 2008 Fisher Funds Investment Roadshow
26 Jun 2008 Secrets to attracting more affluent clients
26 Jun 2008 Rate changes slowing to a trickle
26 Jun 2008 Home loan report: Slow trickle
26 Jun 2008 TOWER rolls out low-cost group health scheme
26 Jun 2008 Adviser legislation poised to go into extra time
25 Jun 2008 Dorchester pulls finance company pin too
25 Jun 2008 AIG Life Roadshow 2008
25 Jun 2008 UDC Finance rating affirmed
25 Jun 2008 St Laurence quits lending, withdraws prospectus
25 Jun 2008 ASB Group adds investment strategist
25 Jun 2008 Maybe ratings do mean something after all?
24 Jun 2008 OPI sues Octaviar for $270m
24 Jun 2008 ING appoints new CEO
24 Jun 2008 AIG Life Roadshow 2008
24 Jun 2008 AIG Life Roadshow 2008
24 Jun 2008 ING appoints new CEO
24 Jun 2008 The 2008 Fisher Funds Investment Roadshow
24 Jun 2008 Bank reports show different mortgage risk appetites
24 Jun 2008 Huljich cuts funds as KiwiSaver push intensifies
23 Jun 2008 Strategic undertakes intensive year end review
23 Jun 2008 Bridgecorp directors to be prosecuted
23 Jun 2008 AIG Life Roadshow 2008
23 Jun 2008 AIG Life Roadshow 2008
23 Jun 2008 Sentinel staffer joins UDC
23 Jun 2008 News Round Up
23 Jun 2008 Unexpected fall in rents
20 Jun 2008 RTA rewrite a long time coming but is it foolproof?
20 Jun 2008 ING Life's new product
20 Jun 2008 The NZ Mortgage Mag – Sink or Swim
20 Jun 2008 Don’t put Dominion in the Doomed box
20 Jun 2008 Another fin coy bond offer
20 Jun 2008 KiwiSaver starting to change attitudes
20 Jun 2008 Thomson Jones appoints Pip Paterson
19 Jun 2008 Financial & Investment Advisers Forum 2008
19 Jun 2008 The 2008 Fisher Funds Investment Roadshow
19 Jun 2008 Platforms still need to collect fees on sick investments: Aegis
18 Jun 2008 Westpac to sell World Bank bonds
18 Jun 2008 Good home loan news mixed with caution
18 Jun 2008 The 2008 Fisher Funds Investment Roadshow
18 Jun 2008 Home Ownership Trust launched
18 Jun 2008 New investment strategist at Arcus
18 Jun 2008 Vestar Rotorua office abandoned
17 Jun 2008 Dominion Finance seeks moratorium
17 Jun 2008 Hanover new BDM
17 Jun 2008 The 2008 Fisher Funds Investment Roadshow
17 Jun 2008 SCF Secured Bond issue closes oversubscribed
17 Jun 2008 Rate falls becoming pronounced
17 Jun 2008 Rules relax as trans-Tasman 'trust' takes hold
17 Jun 2008 Opinion: The impact of Taxation
16 Jun 2008 Commercial returns out in front
16 Jun 2008 Geneva reports $7.88m loss
16 Jun 2008 New BDM for PIS
16 Jun 2008 News Round Up
13 Jun 2008 Leveraging technology for better client service
13 Jun 2008 Industry needs to be ready for a stall – or a rush
13 Jun 2008 Call for changes to investment tax rates
13 Jun 2008 Appello Services appoints GM client relations
12 Jun 2008 P-labs flourish in managed rental properties
12 Jun 2008 Immigration doesn't affect property prices
12 Jun 2008 Financial & Investment Advisers Forum 2008
12 Jun 2008 The 2008 Fisher Funds Investment Roadshow
12 Jun 2008 Looking at the bigger picture
12 Jun 2008 Responsible investing gains new momentum
12 Jun 2008 EUFA's guest inspires minister
12 Jun 2008 Big rate falls forecast
12 Jun 2008 Mexican stand-off in housing market
12 Jun 2008 Mexican stand-off in housing market
11 Jun 2008 Marac's first-ranking debenture stock rated
11 Jun 2008 Morningstar Investment Conference 2008
11 Jun 2008 ING Life enhances its already great product line!
11 Jun 2008 Property market holds up in May: REINZ
11 Jun 2008 REINZ residential highlights – May 2008
11 Jun 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
11 Jun 2008 Women in Super AGM 2008
11 Jun 2008 Finally some good news for borrowers
11 Jun 2008 AMP veterans go in restructure
11 Jun 2008 Marac confident of improved profit
10 Jun 2008 PGG Wrightson says its reinvestment rates high
10 Jun 2008 The 2008 Fisher Funds Investment Roadshow
10 Jun 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
10 Jun 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
10 Jun 2008 ING Roadshow 2008
10 Jun 2008 Record number of pre-approvals
10 Jun 2008 Mike McCarty dies
10 Jun 2008 Tower slashes premiums
10 Jun 2008 Toolbox: QV Insider
09 Jun 2008 Marac looks to make a bond offer
09 Jun 2008 Tower slashes premiums
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