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April 2006
04 Apr 2006 Marac first non-bank finance coy to get S&P rating
04 Apr 2006 Expect lower returns
04 Apr 2006 Next round of cuts underway
04 Apr 2006 Expect lower returns
04 Apr 2006 Super team strengthened
03 Apr 2006 Market Review: A little bit of history repeating
03 Apr 2006 Trail commissions introduced
03 Apr 2006 News Round Up
03 Apr 2006 Next round of cuts underway
02 Apr 2006 Federation opposes new tenant bill
01 Apr 2006 Hand-held computers
March 2006
31 Mar 2006 April Fools Day 2007 no joke
31 Mar 2006 Manager experiences best day ever
30 Mar 2006 ASB profit and home loan market share jumps
30 Mar 2006 Timetable on tax changes tight
30 Mar 2006 Deposit rate news briefs
30 Mar 2006 Investment manager at Goldridge
29 Mar 2006 Concern over KiwiSaver and tax
29 Mar 2006 Concern over KiwiSaver and tax
28 Mar 2006 7th Annual SuperFunds Summit 2006
28 Mar 2006 Australia looks attractive
28 Mar 2006 A swarm of rate changes
28 Mar 2006 Lewington to head up MGIs' NZ business
27 Mar 2006 BNZ loses some market share
27 Mar 2006 News Round Up
25 Mar 2006 Slowing market isn't stopping investors: Survey
24 Mar 2006 Investments help Fidelity's profits
24 Mar 2006 A reason to be worried
24 Mar 2006 Management changes needed to make property trusts more attractive
23 Mar 2006 Giannoulis gets expanded role
23 Mar 2006 Allied Farmers after Prime
23 Mar 2006 Cullen speaks on Kiwisaver
23 Mar 2006 Even more disclosure rules suggested
22 Mar 2006 Deposit rate news briefs
22 Mar 2006 Kiwibank buys into NZ Home Loans
22 Mar 2006 Invitations to become default providers out
22 Mar 2006 International shares continue to shine
21 Mar 2006 Rate falls ease
21 Mar 2006 Birch leaves PIS
21 Mar 2006 Morrison & Co to manage infrastructure mandate
21 Mar 2006 Aust firm buys half of Strategic
21 Mar 2006 Extend tax review to housing: Arcus
21 Mar 2006 Aust firm buys half of Strategic
20 Mar 2006 Arcus new product manager
20 Mar 2006 Problems understanding the jargon
20 Mar 2006 News Round Up
20 Mar 2006 $37,000 net gain for homeowners
20 Mar 2006 Bill to protect tenants
17 Mar 2006 Putting financial knowledge on the fast track
17 Mar 2006 New survey shows value of advice
17 Mar 2006 NZMBA keeping its options on regulation open
17 Mar 2006 AIA makes two new appointments
16 Mar 2006 Questions about size of sacrifice problem
15 Mar 2006 Putting advisers into KiwiSaver coming soon: Dunne
15 Mar 2006 Superbank grows mortgages, deposits and pares losses
15 Mar 2006 Price median slips slightly
14 Mar 2006 So what's happening at the FPIA at the moment?
14 Mar 2006 Adviser associations start talking to each other
14 Mar 2006 Two new FundSource people
14 Mar 2006 Views differ on when rates will fall
14 Mar 2006 Deposit rate news briefs
13 Mar 2006 Managed funds closing
13 Mar 2006 Bridgecorp New Zealand free of Westpoint
12 Mar 2006 Property market softens: QV
12 Mar 2006 Property values ease slightly
10 Mar 2006 ING the big thing at awards
09 Mar 2006 Monetary Policy Statement
09 Mar 2006 Reserve Bank leaves OCR unchanged and rules out any easing this year
09 Mar 2006 OCR unchanged at 7.25%
09 Mar 2006 Advisers risk being left behind
09 Mar 2006 Lombard to establish insurance company
09 Mar 2006 Credit Union members good savers
09 Mar 2006 Goldman Sachs JBWere appoints portfolio manager
08 Mar 2006 Latest trends in international shares
08 Mar 2006 Levy collecting proving difficult
08 Mar 2006 Bollard guarded on property slowdown
08 Mar 2006 Industrial adds weight to commercial sector
07 Mar 2006 KiwiSaver may force some managers out of business
07 Mar 2006 KiwiSaver Bill - First Reading Speech
07 Mar 2006 OMNIMax™ Certification Course
07 Mar 2006 KiwiSaver – a New Zealand landmark
07 Mar 2006 Home loan changes muted in past week
07 Mar 2006 Stone's new regional manager
07 Mar 2006 KiwiSaver may force some managers out of business
06 Mar 2006 News Round Up
05 Mar 2006 Markets ponder bank's upcoming statement on rates
03 Mar 2006 Do advisers have a role in KiwiSaver?
03 Mar 2006 Weekly Wrap: Kiwisaver legislation
03 Mar 2006 Role of adviser critical in preventing under-insurance
03 Mar 2006 Finalists for Morningstar awards announced
02 Mar 2006 ANZ profit up, market share down
02 Mar 2006 AXA buys more of Salvus
02 Mar 2006 Deposit rate news briefs
02 Mar 2006 It's not all about looks
02 Mar 2006 Land prices seen as key to limits on housing
01 Mar 2006 Market review: How hard will the landing be?
01 Mar 2006 KiwiSaver fish hooks
01 Mar 2006 ING applauds savings initiative
01 Mar 2006 Window of opportunity
01 Mar 2006 Advisers don't have role in KiwiSaver
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