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April 2008
16 Apr 2008 Guardian Trust appoints national manager – philanthropy
16 Apr 2008 Accountants lead with free advice offer
16 Apr 2008 Free advice for Blue Chip investors
15 Apr 2008 Hanover's BDM on his bike
15 Apr 2008 Sentinel forced to shuffle
15 Apr 2008 Students next door bad for your wealth
15 Apr 2008 KiwiSaver numbers surge
15 Apr 2008 LM rubbishes liquidity crisis claims
14 Apr 2008 ASSET - NZ's boutique renaissance
14 Apr 2008 Geneva unveils its new survival plan
14 Apr 2008 Geneva unveils its new survival plan
14 Apr 2008 Tauranga stays on top
14 Apr 2008 Average property price will fall to $300,000: economist
11 Apr 2008 What's the deal with packaged property?
11 Apr 2008 Black March for bottom end of property market
11 Apr 2008 REINZ Residential Highlights - March 2008
11 Apr 2008 Allied Nationwide appoints independent directors
11 Apr 2008 South Canterbury Finance expanding
11 Apr 2008 TOWER’s Wahine storm
11 Apr 2008 Liontamer expands trans-Tasman team
11 Apr 2008 Dalziel lines up Blue Chip advisers
10 Apr 2008 Perpetual pulls pin on Lombard
10 Apr 2008 Perpetual pulls pin on Lombard
10 Apr 2008 Magellan Adviser Briefing
10 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
10 Apr 2008 Saved by the US: Magellan
10 Apr 2008 Blue Chip goes into liquidation
09 Apr 2008 Home loan report: Relative calm restored for now
09 Apr 2008 Home loan report: Relative calm restored for now
09 Apr 2008 The Investment Store grows with appointment of new bdm
09 Apr 2008 Tax department rules on deducting accountancy fees
09 Apr 2008 Magellan Adviser Briefing
09 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
09 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
09 Apr 2008 Dudson sells business to Stobo firm
08 Apr 2008 Magellan Adviser Briefing
08 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
08 Apr 2008 Asteron Managing Risk Roadshow
08 Apr 2008 Tower winds up $242m mortgage fund
08 Apr 2008 Bargain hunters start to appear: Survey
07 Apr 2008 Top funds management lawyer moves to DLA Philips Fox
07 Apr 2008 Market Review: April 2008 commentary
07 Apr 2008 Tower winds up $242m mortgage fund
07 Apr 2008 Regional review: Our best-kept secret
07 Apr 2008 News Round Up
07 Apr 2008 Learning from Lombard
07 Apr 2008 Bluestone hardens lending in NZ
05 Apr 2008 Auckland house prices bad sign
04 Apr 2008 Grim news in Auckland property market
04 Apr 2008 Nathans investors still in the dark
04 Apr 2008 First Five Star payment not so starry
04 Apr 2008 Money at Work
04 Apr 2008 The housing market is over valued - so what?
04 Apr 2008 Triplejump appoints training and development manager
04 Apr 2008 Russell hedge fund closure hits local instos
04 Apr 2008 Tenants stay longer in energy efficient houses
04 Apr 2008 House prices 30% over-valued: BNZ
04 Apr 2008 April issue - available now
03 Apr 2008 Hanover confirms profit
03 Apr 2008 New website simplifying insurance
03 Apr 2008 Home loan report: Glimmer of hope?
03 Apr 2008 Home loan report: Glimmer of hope?
02 Apr 2008 South Canterbury buys from receivers
02 Apr 2008 ASB launches Sustainability Investment Fund
02 Apr 2008 Government may ditch APBs
02 Apr 2008 ING appoints new Managing Director - Real Estate
01 Apr 2008 Morningstar 'recommends' Fisher Funds
01 Apr 2008 ASB lost mortgage market share in Dec quarter
01 Apr 2008 S&P paints picture of debenture market
01 Apr 2008 Wairarapa: Our best-kept secret
01 Apr 2008 Property investors refocus on cash flow
March 2008
31 Mar 2008 S&P paints picture of debenture market
31 Mar 2008 Milford Asset expands it staff base
31 Mar 2008 News Round Up
30 Mar 2008 Origin ends Pioneer relationship
28 Mar 2008 [Weekly Wrap] Fisher and ING highlight of short week
28 Mar 2008 The lighter side of the credit crunch
28 Mar 2008 Hanover Group appoints CFO
28 Mar 2008 Westpac latest cab off the cash PIE rank
27 Mar 2008 F&P to keep finance company
27 Mar 2008 AIG Life appoints Regional Sales Mgr
27 Mar 2008 ANZ stands by CDO fund sales
27 Mar 2008 BNZ lowers rate on share offer
26 Mar 2008 Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
26 Mar 2008 Rates up, up and away
26 Mar 2008 Rates up, up and away
26 Mar 2008 Super Fund ends relationship with Fisher
25 Mar 2008 Tower appoints MD
25 Mar 2008 News Round Up
25 Mar 2008 Kiwibank grows home loan market share
25 Mar 2008 Landlords pushing up rents
21 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
20 Mar 2008 Your guide to bank bond offers
20 Mar 2008 [Weekly Wrap] Unlikely allies may join forces
20 Mar 2008 Confidence placed in Blue Chip liquidator
20 Mar 2008 Harcourts' sales down over 30%
20 Mar 2008 Quest to be the biggest and the best
20 Mar 2008 NZ Super Fund considers changes
20 Mar 2008 Changes at Super Fund following CIO departure
19 Mar 2008 TSB gets a ratings upgrade
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