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June 2006
12 Jun 2006 COMPASS Product Launch Presentation
12 Jun 2006 Rescuers put themselves first
12 Jun 2006 Rescuers put themselves first
12 Jun 2006 Pioneer buys Pacific
12 Jun 2006 Diplock keeps the chair
12 Jun 2006 Viking not after finance companies
11 Jun 2006 Higher for longer
11 Jun 2006 Residential Property Values Grow 12.4%
11 Jun 2006 QV price data for May 2006
11 Jun 2006 House prices predicted to decline
09 Jun 2006 New finance company arrives as others fall
09 Jun 2006 Rifleman shows its experience
09 Jun 2006 No tax break for UK listed trusts: IRD
08 Jun 2006 Monetary Policy Statement
08 Jun 2006 COMPASS Product Launch Presentation
08 Jun 2006 Bollard leaves rates unchanged despite worsening inflation outlook
08 Jun 2006 OCR remains at 7.25%
08 Jun 2006 New disclosure bill delayed
07 Jun 2006 COMPASS Product Launch Presentation
07 Jun 2006 New fixed interest manager at AMP Capital
07 Jun 2006 Bollard leaves rates unchanged despite worsening inflation outlook
06 Jun 2006 COMPASS Product Launch Presentation
06 Jun 2006 COMPASS Product Launch Presentation
06 Jun 2006 Provincial and Perpetual fail to agree
05 Jun 2006 Fascinating Provincial questions
05 Jun 2006 Provincial and Perpetual fail to agree
05 Jun 2006 Rate cuts looking more distant
02 Jun 2006 Provincial Finance placed in receivership
02 Jun 2006 COMPASS Product Launch Presentation
02 Jun 2006 Chapman leaves Sovereign
01 Jun 2006 Market Review: The sell-off
01 Jun 2006 Dunne's bomb making manual
01 Jun 2006 Minister encourages submissions
May 2006
31 May 2006 Insurance guidelines to be reviewed
31 May 2006 Outlook for rate changes low
31 May 2006 Edwards gets top job at Perpetual
31 May 2006 Co-regulation hard to make work: Kent
30 May 2006 Increasing risks may catch investors out: S&P
30 May 2006 Bill to give Government wide powers over advisers
30 May 2006 Waistlines will fatten premiums
29 May 2006 TSB holds its market share
29 May 2006 Tower Health & Life beefs up adviser support
29 May 2006 News Round Up
29 May 2006 NZPIF: voice of landlords
28 May 2006 Deposit rate news briefs
26 May 2006 Tower reports strong result
25 May 2006 Carefully check mortgage costs: Crossan
25 May 2006 Michael Cullen is wrong, wrong, wrong
25 May 2006 New Zealand Fixed Income Forum
25 May 2006 Cullen says no more tax holidays
25 May 2006 IRD cracks down on chattel depreciation
25 May 2006 Queenstown market volatile
25 May 2006 Property Investors in a mood to buy
24 May 2006 Tower aiming to be KiwiSaver default provider
24 May 2006 Life Brokers Association conference
24 May 2006 Guardian Trust back again
24 May 2006 New marketing group for advisers
23 May 2006 Provincial talks to South Canterbury
23 May 2006 Finally it has happened
23 May 2006 Provincial Finance talks to South Canterbury
23 May 2006 Residential property prices still reach new record
23 May 2006 Feature: Regional housing market report April
22 May 2006 News Round Up
21 May 2006 Liontamer appoints research manager
19 May 2006 Government to issue infrastructure bonds
19 May 2006 Brokers' volume drops, but recovering
19 May 2006 Deposit rate news briefs
18 May 2006 Budget 2006
18 May 2006 Time for biffo on tax changes
18 May 2006 Tax laws out, and out of favour
18 May 2006 Unusual things happening with home loan rates
17 May 2006 Dowler joins Sherpa
17 May 2006 MFS to become fund manager
16 May 2006 One in three Mums have no life cover
16 May 2006 Tax changes in for bumpy ride
15 May 2006 News Round Up
15 May 2006 New head of fixed interest at AMP
14 May 2006 SIFA Mid-Year Conference
12 May 2006 FPIA board meeting
12 May 2006 Predicting finance company failures
12 May 2006 S&P warns of more collapses
12 May 2006 BNZ reckons it's the winner
11 May 2006 FPIA council meeting
11 May 2006 Super Fund awards another mandate
11 May 2006 KiwiSaver start should be deferred: Spooner
11 May 2006 KiwiSaver start should be deferred: Spooner
11 May 2006 HFA gets Styles
10 May 2006 Provincial Finance stops accepting new investments
10 May 2006 UDC retains investment grade rating
10 May 2006 Auckland University sets up retirement research centre
10 May 2006 Associations outline concerns with disclosure bill
10 May 2006 QV price data for April
10 May 2006 More rate rises happening
10 May 2006 Mixed results for Auckland market
09 May 2006 Cullen rubbishes switching claims
09 May 2006 More rate rises happening
09 May 2006 InvestmentLink calls for electronic KiwiSaver access
09 May 2006 What managers are looking for
08 May 2006 News Round Up
08 May 2006 Grosvenor's Tume joins NZ Super Fund
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.
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