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March 2024
28 Mar 2024 Digital Signatures and Fraud
28 Mar 2024 Encouraging signs of growth
28 Mar 2024 Mortgage figures show encouraging signs of growth
28 Mar 2024 US decisions likely to decide between more inflation or deflation
27 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket stuck in negative territory ahead of Easter weekend
27 Mar 2024 Australian is new CEO of Guardians of NZ Superannuation
27 Mar 2024 FAMNZ members can join in April
27 Mar 2024 Bayly will talk to coalition partners before any change to KiwiSaver
27 Mar 2024 New winner for Fund Manager of the Year
27 Mar 2024 Potential FAMNZ members in waiting game
26 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket ends five day bull run
26 Mar 2024 Southern Cross latest insurer to get FMA warning
26 Mar 2024 Mortage advisers get the ear of Commerce Commission
26 Mar 2024 The AI revolution in financial advice: A reality check
26 Mar 2024 Lindsay sells Strategy Reserach to Trail after cancer experience
26 Mar 2024 NZ scopes a green taxonomy to provide a common language on sustainable finance
26 Mar 2024 Simplicity takes stake in tax tech company
26 Mar 2024 Mortage advisers get the ear of Com Com
25 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket closes with decent rise
25 Mar 2024 Out of touch with the reality of mortgage advice
25 Mar 2024 Tax deducibility for health insurance premiums?
25 Mar 2024 The cheap treat that’s getting more expensive
25 Mar 2024 ComCom accused of being out of touch with the reality of mortgage advice
25 Mar 2024 [GRTV] Bayly wants a twin peaks model for financial regulation
24 Mar 2024 New director and executive changes at Perpetual Guardian
23 Mar 2024 One dealer group speaks up
23 Mar 2024 Advisers have consumers best interest: Finsure
22 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket gets wake-up prod thanks to Fisher & Paykel
22 Mar 2024 Old hand in new role at Chubb
22 Mar 2024 Wow, that was some response. Advisers respond to the Com Com report
22 Mar 2024 Maple-Brown Abbott appoints new business development manager
22 Mar 2024 Non-banks, banks welcome different aspects of ComCom draft report
21 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket gains over 0.5% amid recession news
21 Mar 2024 Com Com bank review out: Here's what they said about advisers
21 Mar 2024 Mortgage advisers remain at risk of being “unduly influenced” by commissions
21 Mar 2024 ESG-linked remuneration survey part of engagement toolbox
20 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket makes small gain
20 Mar 2024 Partners helps fund depression recovery centre
20 Mar 2024 Investment manager cleared of assault
20 Mar 2024 Kip Hanna – NZHL Group a Year on
20 Mar 2024 DTIs need deeper analysis - BusinessNZ
20 Mar 2024 Liberty Financial wins tax appeal
20 Mar 2024 DTIs need deeper analysis
20 Mar 2024 Wrestling the gorilla
19 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket up more than 0.5%
19 Mar 2024 Partners distribution boss jumps to Asteron
18 Mar 2024 Another day of falling prices on the stock exchange
18 Mar 2024 Activating DTIs and loosening LVRs - NZBA
18 Mar 2024 Activating DTIs and loosening LVRs
18 Mar 2024 Support for regulation
18 Mar 2024 [GRTV] A trip around investment issues with MyFiduciary’s Chris Douglas
17 Mar 2024 AIA adds cover for prophylactic surgery following cancer
17 Mar 2024 Multiply partners with NZX Wealth Technologies for tech innovation
17 Mar 2024 28-year streak for Fidelity
16 Mar 2024 FirstCape another step closer to launching
15 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket's wild ride continues as week ends on a fall
15 Mar 2024 Loan Market gets new leader
15 Mar 2024 BusinessNZ says FMA should shelve its fair outcomes guidelines
15 Mar 2024 Loan Market adds national director to supercharge adviser growth
15 Mar 2024 Appalling insurance industry service levels
15 Mar 2024 AIA Wellbeing Survey: Your health is your wealth, the importance of recovery
15 Mar 2024 [Podcast] TMM Ep1 Basecorp's plans for 2024
14 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket drifts aimlessly as investors hibernate
14 Mar 2024 Former mortgage adviser sentenced for financial fraud
14 Mar 2024 Former mortgage adviser sentenced for fraud
14 Mar 2024 Zipped up
14 Mar 2024 A better investment market
14 Mar 2024 [OPINION] Recessionary times
13 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket not inspired by Briscoe's strong result
13 Mar 2024 Banks want tweaks, not repeal
13 Mar 2024 The FMA turning up doesn't mean it wants to shut down an adviser
13 Mar 2024 Banks want tweaks, not repeal, to CCCFA and CoFi
12 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket slides 0.37%
12 Mar 2024 Celebrating Excellence in Ethical and Impact Investing: Mindful Money announces broader entry criteria for the annual Awards and a new category
12 Mar 2024 The turning tide; Long-term development funding options needed
12 Mar 2024 Long-term development funding options needed
11 Mar 2024 US inflation fears put dampener on NZ sharemarket
11 Mar 2024 The turning tide
11 Mar 2024 More rate cuts; Changes at Link Group
11 Mar 2024 Advice Link gets new head
11 Mar 2024 Kernel launches NZ-first target maturity bond funds
11 Mar 2024 Total Wealth's NZXWT onboarding story
08 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket ends week up 1.5%
08 Mar 2024 Mint spearheads letter to the Government addressing Modern Slavery Legislation
08 Mar 2024 NEW: The first TMM Podcast
08 Mar 2024 Those with licences unlikely to have to undergo another licencing process: FMA
07 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket has third consecutive rise this week
07 Mar 2024 Our Goal: To Help You
07 Mar 2024 Insurance advisers must know their products
07 Mar 2024 FANZ lays down a challenge; Tik Toking mortgage adviser awarded for his work
07 Mar 2024 Interest rate expectations: It’s not over yet
07 Mar 2024 Mortgage adviser takes out financial literacy award
07 Mar 2024 Chubb appoints David Morrow as Country President for New Zealand
07 Mar 2024 ANZ's Zollner: be careful what you wish for on house prices
07 Mar 2024 Fidelity Life opens door to new advisers
07 Mar 2024 [GRTV] Free model portfolios aim to improve the industry
06 Mar 2024 NZ sharemarket turnaround as Mercury Energy hits all-time high
06 Mar 2024 Unsold houses flood the market; BNZ reduced its six months to two years rates
06 Mar 2024 FANZ aims to be the voice and champion of financial advisers
06 Mar 2024 Interest rates drop, unsold houses flood the market
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
3 min read
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.
2 weeks 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.
2 weeks 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