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January 2008
24 Jan 2008 The Official Cash Rate (OCR) will remain unchanged at 8.25%.
24 Jan 2008 Bank five-year rates fall
24 Jan 2008 Organise and litigate: EUFA tells investors
24 Jan 2008 Reading the OCR tea leaves
24 Jan 2008 OCR remains unchanged at 8.25%.
23 Jan 2008 ASB appoints Senior bdm
23 Jan 2008 Fed slashes rate
23 Jan 2008 Harcourts takes over management of Bluechip properties
22 Jan 2008 Doesn't property look safe
22 Jan 2008 Another eventful day for MFS Australia
21 Jan 2008 EUFA Roadshow
21 Jan 2008 Book: Trusts A Kiwi Sham?
21 Jan 2008 News Round Up
21 Jan 2008 Banks only ones to change rates
20 Jan 2008 Rate rise unlikely this week
20 Jan 2008 Not a lot of good news for borrowers
18 Jan 2008 Ombudsman introduces conciliation
18 Jan 2008 Balanced ethical fund launched
18 Jan 2008 ING expands investment team
17 Jan 2008 MFS dumps name, director and calls for trading halt
16 Jan 2008 Rent yields at highest level since Feb
16 Jan 2008 Property market drop might not only be down to holidays
16 Jan 2008 REINZ Residential Highlights – December 2007
16 Jan 2008 KiwiSaver numbers pass 380,000 in first six months
16 Jan 2008 NZX puts FinanceWatch on ice
16 Jan 2008 NZX puts FinanceWatch on ice
15 Jan 2008 Dramatic changes to home loan rates
15 Jan 2008 Bond payment suspended
15 Jan 2008 Fidelity establishes risk manager role
14 Jan 2008 Book: All You Need To Know ABout Buying & Selling Your Home
14 Jan 2008 Short-term rate changes
14 Jan 2008 News Round Up
14 Jan 2008 QV commentary shows Wellington on top
14 Jan 2008 Property values cool further
11 Jan 2008 NZ Super takes alternative view of alternatives
10 Jan 2008 BNZ mortgage market share actually fell
10 Jan 2008 KiwiSaver to kill off state savings schemes
09 Jan 2008 BNZ's mortgage market share surges
09 Jan 2008 MFS extends options to buy NZ assets
08 Jan 2008 MFS reassures investors
08 Jan 2008 Significant slowdown in Auckland housing market
07 Jan 2008 Auckland house prices rise 12% in 2007
07 Jan 2008 Book: Young & Singles Guide to Property Investment
07 Jan 2008 AIG appoints again
07 Jan 2008 New look January issue – available now
07 Jan 2008 News Round Up
07 Jan 2008 Govt regulating brokers
04 Jan 2008 Wellington: Simply Steady
03 Jan 2008 New head of financial sector for AIG
01 Jan 2008 Trading in MFS shares suspended in NZ
December 2007
31 Dec 2007 Littlewood to retire
31 Dec 2007 Brook flagged as new home for NZIT investors
28 Dec 2007 Sovereign appoints from within ranks
28 Dec 2007 Women into Wealth hits Wellington
27 Dec 2007 Westpac head takes a break
27 Dec 2007 Property owners make New Year’s resolution to move
24 Dec 2007 Money Managers appoints national sales manager
24 Dec 2007 News Round Up
24 Dec 2007 Property gauges show market on a decline
21 Dec 2007 PSIS latest to get S&P rating
21 Dec 2007 Weekly Wrap: Festive final wrap
21 Dec 2007 Weak investor confidence frustrates companies
21 Dec 2007 Weak investor confidence frustrates companies
21 Dec 2007 Trust's Chews Lane purchase questioned
20 Dec 2007 Clegg investors get first payment
20 Dec 2007 New series of Kauri Notes
20 Dec 2007 No Xmas cheer for borrowers
20 Dec 2007 Binu Paul joins Tyndall
19 Dec 2007 Credit Agricole sets rate
19 Dec 2007 ASSET - Festive Talkfest
19 Dec 2007 Rents up $10 a week
19 Dec 2007 Figures paint more positive picture than the hype
19 Dec 2007 Financing options becoming more limited
19 Dec 2007 Bridgecorp investors get bad news
18 Dec 2007 Politicians raspberry Retirement Commissioner's idea
18 Dec 2007 Bridgecorp investors get bad news
18 Dec 2007 South Canterbury Finance offer closes fully subscribed
18 Dec 2007 All insurers to come under new regulation rules
18 Dec 2007 Developers decry Affordable Housing Bill
17 Dec 2007 New boss for TOWER Investments
17 Dec 2007 Numeria follows in footsteps of Capital + Merchant
17 Dec 2007 News Round Up
14 Dec 2007 Weekly Wrap: Regulation, tax and facts
14 Dec 2007 HRC review highlights more issues
14 Dec 2007 Absolute return funds expand with Kauri Notes Series II
14 Dec 2007 Kauri Notes - Higher returns, regular income
14 Dec 2007 Govt proposes fairer tax rules
14 Dec 2007 Russell Investment Group appointments
14 Dec 2007 ASFONZ / Women in Super Industry Breakfast
14 Dec 2007 PIE are we waiting?
14 Dec 2007 Provincial payout reaches 72.5%
14 Dec 2007 Term life commissions undisclosed
14 Dec 2007 Financing options becoming more limited
13 Dec 2007 Real estate agents warned not to mislead
13 Dec 2007 Is it a buyers' market for property at the moment or not? Opinion piece.
13 Dec 2007 Asteron appoints National Manager Group Relationships
13 Dec 2007 Rates higher for longer
13 Dec 2007 Keeping temperature down on intl share investments
12 Dec 2007 NZ Finance gets more funding
12 Dec 2007 New online account from PSIS
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
3 min read
Simon Papa: Access to advice - Is adviser conservatism the issue?
Simon Papa: Access to advice - Is adviser conservatism the issue?
9 min read
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