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March 2008
20 Mar 2008 Changes at Super Fund following CIO departure
19 Mar 2008 TSB gets a ratings upgrade
19 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
19 Mar 2008 Tax rules would change under National
19 Mar 2008 Book: Property Law - A NZ Investors Guide
19 Mar 2008 Home loan rates up and rising
18 Mar 2008 9th Annual SuperFunds Summit
18 Mar 2008 No tax write-offs for investors
18 Mar 2008 The Best of Both Worlds
18 Mar 2008 Insurance rates rising: Survey
18 Mar 2008 SLPF raises money while it can
18 Mar 2008 Falling market offers opportunities for investors
17 Mar 2008 Debenture holders unable to write off losses: IRD
17 Mar 2008 PAA launch mortgage market offering
17 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
17 Mar 2008 Mortgage brokers warm to joint APB
17 Mar 2008 Property investors beware - IRD investigation starting
16 Mar 2008 Go Mr Common Sense
14 Mar 2008 Weekly Wrap: PackING it in
14 Mar 2008 Attention shifts to credit funds
14 Mar 2008 Most people picking their own KiwiSaver managers
14 Mar 2008 Financial Independence for Holland
13 Mar 2008 IFA Professional Development
13 Mar 2008 Possible new rules for packaged property
13 Mar 2008 Housing market not a good look for Govt
13 Mar 2008 Investors need to think about returns differently
13 Mar 2008 ING shuts out investors as CDO losses mount
12 Mar 2008 Cover Notes
12 Mar 2008 Flying high
12 Mar 2008 REINZ residential highlights - February 2008
12 Mar 2008 February residential property market on the edge - REINZ
12 Mar 2008 GSF activates new global shares mandates
12 Mar 2008 Time to regulate sellers of packaged property
12 Mar 2008 New appointment at IRG
12 Mar 2008 Blue Chip investors told to hang in there
12 Mar 2008 Dyer dumped as NZ Super 'restructures'
11 Mar 2008 Not all bad news for property market
11 Mar 2008 Accountancy body shrugs off IFA critique
10 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
10 Mar 2008 Slowdown continues for property values
10 Mar 2008 Brown takes the bait at Fisher
10 Mar 2008 ASSET - Thoughts for the day
10 Mar 2008 News Round Up
10 Mar 2008 QV commentary shows values dropping
07 Mar 2008 Professional Investment Services Summit 2008
07 Mar 2008 Changes afoot at Money Managers
06 Mar 2008 Auckland produces buyers' market in February
06 Mar 2008 Stark reality of housing market decline
06 Mar 2008 Monetary Policy Statement
06 Mar 2008 Bollard holds rates steady, highlights inflation, growth risks
06 Mar 2008 The official cash rate (OCR) will remain unchanged at 8.25%.
06 Mar 2008 St Laurence pulls listing plan
06 Mar 2008 The official cash rate (OCR) will remain unchanged at 8.25%.
05 Mar 2008 MFS Pacific to get around $11 mill
05 Mar 2008 Market Review: March 2008 commentary
05 Mar 2008 Westpac, TSB's mortgage market shares drop slightly
05 Mar 2008 Quiet achiever takes top fund award
04 Mar 2008 New boss of trustees organisation
04 Mar 2008 Uncertain future for Fortress notes
04 Mar 2008 INFINZ Finance & Treasury Forum 2008
04 Mar 2008 Major drafting error in KiwiSaver law
04 Mar 2008 New IRD tax book available now
03 Mar 2008 EUFA Roadshow
03 Mar 2008 Regional review: Gold on the wild West Coast?
03 Mar 2008 News Round Up
03 Mar 2008 Sovereign keeps its number one spot
03 Mar 2008 March issue - available now
02 Mar 2008 Where to for rates?
02 Mar 2008 No rate relief this week: Economists
02 Mar 2008 Falling homeownership rate changing rental market
01 Mar 2008 Adviserlink Courses 2008
February 2008
29 Feb 2008 Weekly Wrap: D-day for disclosure
29 Feb 2008 Fishy business
29 Feb 2008 Women play it safe with KiwiSaver
29 Feb 2008 Adviser remuneration for all to see
28 Feb 2008 Home loan report: Rates still on the rise
28 Feb 2008 Rates still on the rise
28 Feb 2008 More MFS trouble
28 Feb 2008 Middleton takes on Westpac role
27 Feb 2008 No quick improvement in returns: Wood
26 Feb 2008 Marac profits in turmoil
26 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Industry Breakfast
26 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Industry Breakfast
26 Feb 2008 Special Book event
26 Feb 2008 Fisher loses Couillault
26 Feb 2008 BNZ mortgage market shares steady in Dec quarter
26 Feb 2008 Strategic Finance not for sale
26 Feb 2008 ANZ National Bank increase market share
25 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Trusteeship
25 Feb 2008 ASFONZ Industry Lunch
25 Feb 2008 News Round Up
25 Feb 2008 Perpetual appoints two new advisers
25 Feb 2008 Book: Lost Property - 20th Anniversary Edition
23 Feb 2008 It's not advisers who need regulating
22 Feb 2008 Business owners report low KiwiSaver uptake
22 Feb 2008 Cover Notes
22 Feb 2008 Commission coming to check advisers
22 Feb 2008 Lombard won't necessarily know of difficulties
22 Feb 2008 Blue Chip liquidators "delighted" with Bryers offer
21 Feb 2008 Interest bill for house doubled
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