Advisers were given some serious messages yesterday from the Retirement Commissioner and the FPIA chief executive.

The reasons why public servants picked different savings products available in the government’s new State Sector Retirement Savings Scheme have been revealed.

Finance Minister Michael Cullen says the government doesn’t have enough money to provide “sweeteners” to encourage workplace savings.

ING is launching a new wrap account to retail investors in April.

ASB has emerged even more successfully than was thought in the bidding war for civil servants’ savings.

ASB has emerged even more successfully than was thought in the bidding war for civil servants’ savings.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is poised to move into alternative asset classes such as infrastructure.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is poised to move into alternative asset classes such as infrastructure.

Despite the marked lack of detail in Prime Minister Helen Clark’s ‘ownership society” rhetoric last week, tax relief for savings appears to be on the way.

Money Managers is launching its new line of insurance products at the beginning of April.

AMP Capital Investors is tilting its investments towards global equities and local bonds in expectation of a local slowdown in the coming year.

New Zealanders seem wary of employer involvement in retirement saving’s according to a new international survey by AXA.

New Zealand First is hanging on to its policy of converting the New Zealand Superannuation Fund into individualised accounts.

Tower shareholders gave the go ahead to a split of the group into an investment and insurance company and an Australian Wealth management company.

United Future is pushing for changes to superannuation which would include allowing people to claim payments into a superannuation fund as a deductible expense.

United Future is pushing for changes to superannuation which would include allowing people to claim payments into a superannuation fund as a deductible expense.