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July 2007
11 Jul 2007 KiwiSaver to set West Coast kids up for life
11 Jul 2007 Adviserlink – Financial Plan Construction and Review
11 Jul 2007 Strong sales prices for most main centres
10 Jul 2007 Kauri Notes - High targeted returns
10 Jul 2007 Managers bearish on NZ
10 Jul 2007 KiwiSaver could make refinancing harder
10 Jul 2007 Adviserlink – Practice Management
10 Jul 2007 Strategi expands its team
09 Jul 2007 New chief operating officer at Southern Cross
09 Jul 2007 WATER - Blue Gold
09 Jul 2007 KPMG says banks acting responsibly
09 Jul 2007 News Round Up
09 Jul 2007 Deposit Rates Briefs
09 Jul 2007 More Bridgecorp Briefs
09 Jul 2007 Prices hold but fewer buyers and listings
09 Jul 2007 Rental property tops with investors
08 Jul 2007 Investors confident, but some concerns emerging
06 Jul 2007 Wakatipu home affordability study points to more renters
06 Jul 2007 Weekly Wrap: Bridgecorp collapse dominates news
06 Jul 2007 Keep KiwiSaver transparent and treat it with respect
06 Jul 2007 KiwiSaver safe for investors
06 Jul 2007 Absolute return funds will have a place in KiwiSaver portfolios.
06 Jul 2007 Plans to commercialise Bondwatch
06 Jul 2007 AIA appoints market retention manager
05 Jul 2007 Employers' KiwiSaver obligations clarified
05 Jul 2007 Minister withholds affordable housing policy information
05 Jul 2007 Rifleman Group posts strong first-year profits
05 Jul 2007 Auckland property market stable in June
05 Jul 2007 Rates fall, but its not the turning point
05 Jul 2007 Confidence could be hit by collapse
04 Jul 2007 HNZ to blame for botched eviction bid
04 Jul 2007 KiwiSaver a 3-4.5 billion dollar tax cut by any other name
04 Jul 2007 Finance coys cross fingers on fallout
04 Jul 2007 Reaction to Bridgecorp collapse
04 Jul 2007 Liontamer appoints new finance head
03 Jul 2007 Hanover calls for international credit ratings
02 Jul 2007 Bridgecorp's demise
02 Jul 2007 Investors cashing up as market flattens?
02 Jul 2007 Auckland rents climb at last
02 Jul 2007 KiwiSaver technical change to be made
02 Jul 2007 KiwiSaver in breach of human rights, employment law
02 Jul 2007 News Round Up
02 Jul 2007 Goldridge Mintz a new chairman
02 Jul 2007 Deposit rates news briefs
02 Jul 2007 Dunedin: Great Southern land
02 Jul 2007 Website: Monitoring growth hotspots
June 2007
29 Jun 2007 KiwiSaver information readily available from Inland Revenue
29 Jun 2007 Weekly Wrap: Next week looking big
29 Jun 2007 High public interest in KiwiSaver
29 Jun 2007 Fin coys to join
29 Jun 2007 Tower KiwiPlan website launch today at 10am
29 Jun 2007 Bigger, brighter better for Equitable
28 Jun 2007 Pinnacle questions PAA stance
28 Jun 2007 Building consents on a rise
28 Jun 2007 Real estate agents bemoan industry changes
28 Jun 2007 HNZ eviction has lessons for landlords
28 Jun 2007 Greater security and opportunity through KiwiSaver
28 Jun 2007 Pricing risk or buying market share?
28 Jun 2007 MFS achieves listing goal
28 Jun 2007 Morningstar boss returns to US
27 Jun 2007 ING Roadshow 2007
27 Jun 2007 Stechman leaving Tower
27 Jun 2007 Commission seeks court help
26 Jun 2007 ING Roadshow 2007
26 Jun 2007 Adviserlink - Continuing Education Series: Business Risk Management
26 Jun 2007 Businesses still in the dark on KiwiSaver
26 Jun 2007 Threats and opportunities for investors
26 Jun 2007 BNZ increases market share
26 Jun 2007 Deposit rates news briefs
25 Jun 2007 ING Roadshow 2007
25 Jun 2007 Developer wins court battle against council
25 Jun 2007 News Round Up
25 Jun 2007 AMP MD moves on
22 Jun 2007 Weekly Wrap: Questions about adviser regulation
22 Jun 2007 Department of Labour to target Tauranga building sites
22 Jun 2007 Home affordability produces mixed results nationally
22 Jun 2007 Broadbase not for sale: Valentine
21 Jun 2007 New fin coy rules require education
21 Jun 2007 PAA wants to talk to the Commerce Minister
21 Jun 2007 Listen to the minister
21 Jun 2007 What happens to errant advisers under new rules?
21 Jun 2007 Craigs join up with InvestmentLink
21 Jun 2007 Rental property tax rules: good for the goose but not for the gander?
21 Jun 2007 Migrant inflows soft again in May
20 Jun 2007 ABN AMRO Craigs adopts Gatekeeper for KiwiSaver fund providers
20 Jun 2007 Twice the gain - Limit the pain
20 Jun 2007 Website to clarify hidden KiwiSaver fund fees
19 Jun 2007 IFA welcomes changes
19 Jun 2007 Government working on “ring fencing” rental property losses
19 Jun 2007 New rules for advisers unveiled
19 Jun 2007 Reserve Bank welcomes decision on prudential regulation
19 Jun 2007 Commerce Minister announces financial sector changes
19 Jun 2007 Rules for registering finance sector to net loan sharks
19 Jun 2007 Non-bank deposit takers to come under new rules
19 Jun 2007 KiwiSaver: nest egg or hot potato?
19 Jun 2007 Co-Heads of Goldman Sachs JBWere (NZ) appointed
19 Jun 2007 Loan arrears increase
19 Jun 2007 Super Fund's investing guidelines under review
19 Jun 2007 Brook reaches out to middle market
19 Jun 2007 conveyIT partners with Trade Me
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