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August 2007
29 Aug 2007 BNZ mortgage market share slips
29 Aug 2007 Adviserlink - Advice Process I: The sales approach
28 Aug 2007 Liontamer WATER Roadshow
28 Aug 2007 Breakfast with the Economists
27 Aug 2007 Yellow Pages offer halved
27 Aug 2007 Banks push up call rates
27 Aug 2007 Lenders pitch for borrowers' business
27 Aug 2007 Online auctions hit home loan market
27 Aug 2007 Adviserlink - Personal Risk Management
27 Aug 2007 OUR VISION YOUR DREAM – The Pacific at Mount Maunganui
27 Aug 2007 News Round Up
24 Aug 2007 Supporting advisers
24 Aug 2007 Strategic books $30 mill profit
24 Aug 2007 Liontamer WATER Roadshow
24 Aug 2007 Govt to tidy up finance company scene
23 Aug 2007 ABN AMRO Craigs launches new superannuation initiative
23 Aug 2007 Liontamer WATER Roadshow
23 Aug 2007 Understanding Ratings
23 Aug 2007 Personalised KiwiSaver accounts added
23 Aug 2007 Conflicting rate messages
23 Aug 2007 HFANZ announces new president & executive director
22 Aug 2007 Five point plan for investing in finance companies
22 Aug 2007 Liontamer WATER Roadshow
22 Aug 2007 Yellow Pages bonds at 11%
22 Aug 2007 End to long standing planner partnership
22 Aug 2007 PIEs a tasty treat for investors
21 Aug 2007 Adviserlink – Kiwisaver Superannuation Programme
21 Aug 2007 Nathans receivership confirmed
21 Aug 2007 Property market swings in buyers’ favour
21 Aug 2007 Liontamer WATER Roadshow
21 Aug 2007 Insurance commission disclosure must go, industry tells Dalziel
20 Aug 2007 Similiarities between Nathans and Bridgecorp
20 Aug 2007 Nathans Finance falls over
20 Aug 2007 Adviserlink – NZ Financial Services Industry Essentials
20 Aug 2007 Nathans Finance falls over
20 Aug 2007 Adviserlink – NZ Financial Services Industry Essentials
20 Aug 2007 Asset Allocation Summit NZ 2007
20 Aug 2007 PFS abandons bid for CBS
20 Aug 2007 Researcher strikes back
20 Aug 2007 News Round Up
20 Aug 2007 Well-known manager joins MFS
20 Aug 2007 Westpac increases rates
18 Aug 2007 Foreign investment on the rise
17 Aug 2007 Weekly Wrap: Commissions back on agenda
17 Aug 2007 Commission disclosure back on the agenda
17 Aug 2007 Nothing likely for Bridgecorp noteholders
17 Aug 2007 Credit crisis presents opportunities
17 Aug 2007 Office tenants embrace green initiatives
16 Aug 2007 Fidelity shares higher but hard to find
16 Aug 2007 ASSET - Beyond Bridgecorp
16 Aug 2007 Better saved than sorry: Treasury
16 Aug 2007 Hopcroft made associate
16 Aug 2007 Lack of business zoned land in the Auckland region
15 Aug 2007 Census 2006 confirms declining home ownership
15 Aug 2007 Capital Guaranteed Investments Seminar
15 Aug 2007 Loan Market looks to life for growth
15 Aug 2007 Changes to super fund rules announced
15 Aug 2007 Loan Market looks to life for growth
15 Aug 2007 Planner takes on Life Settlements Fund role
14 Aug 2007 Adviserlink – Financial Plan Construction and Review
14 Aug 2007 ASFONZ Forum 2007
14 Aug 2007 Capital Guaranteed Investments Seminar
14 Aug 2007 Australian hedge fund operator opens NZ shop
14 Aug 2007 Landlords need to properly lodge bonds
13 Aug 2007 Deposit rate news briefs
13 Aug 2007 News Round Up
13 Aug 2007 Adviserlink – Business Financial Solutions
13 Aug 2007 Property market continues to slow: QV
13 Aug 2007 Website: SuburbWatch adds new features
12 Aug 2007 Calls to blacklist “tenants from hell”
10 Aug 2007 Major medical cover proving popular
10 Aug 2007 Weekly Wrap: Credit crunch continues
10 Aug 2007 National campaigning on housing supply
10 Aug 2007 Lending gets harder for fin coys
10 Aug 2007 AIA appoints group business manager
09 Aug 2007 Sales volumes plummet to 2001 level – REINZ
09 Aug 2007 BT NZ likely to join new listing
09 Aug 2007 Adviserlink – Investment Planning
09 Aug 2007 Yellow Pages considers $300 mill bond offer
09 Aug 2007 Asteron National Roadshow
09 Aug 2007 Asteron National Roadshow
09 Aug 2007 Calls to speed up regulation
09 Aug 2007 “Tenants from hell” take advantage of Tribunal delays
09 Aug 2007 Toolbox: Realestate.co.nz
08 Aug 2007 Capital Guaranteed Investments Seminar
08 Aug 2007 Asteron National Roadshow
08 Aug 2007 Interest in Provincial assets, but not for investors
08 Aug 2007 New chief investment officer for Arcus
08 Aug 2007 CDO crisis spooks ING funds but no panic
07 Aug 2007 More housing doom and gloom from BNZ survey
07 Aug 2007 Capital Guaranteed Investments Seminar
07 Aug 2007 Asteron National Roadshow
07 Aug 2007 Asteron National Roadshow
07 Aug 2007 BNZ denies it's re-entering broker market
07 Aug 2007 Fortress sells assets to reduce debt
07 Aug 2007 Strategic calls for industry tidy up
06 Aug 2007 Auckland property prices steady in July
06 Aug 2007 Spicers appoints new ceo
06 Aug 2007 Banks battle over one-year rates
06 Aug 2007 Adviserlink – Kiwisaver Superannuation Programme
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