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April 2017
13 Apr 2017 Prices, sales up – driven by high end sales
13 Apr 2017 FMA appoints enforcement head
13 Apr 2017 Lower prices mean budget squeeze
13 Apr 2017 Reigns handed over at Westpac – again
13 Apr 2017 Getting to Know: Rod Severn
13 Apr 2017 Thursday news in brief
13 Apr 2017 Platforms vie for adviser FUM
12 Apr 2017 Build more bloody houses - Little
12 Apr 2017 Broker concerns referred to FMA
12 Apr 2017 Interest-only loans under the spotlight
12 Apr 2017 Call for crackdown on tax disclosure requirements
11 Apr 2017 FMA asks: How should KiwiSaver fees be calculated?
11 Apr 2017 Interest-only loans come under the spotlight
11 Apr 2017 Changing times for interest rate setting
11 Apr 2017 Don't look to new grads to boost industry
10 Apr 2017 Hunter Hall Global Value fund trading again
10 Apr 2017 Kiwibank chairman stands down
10 Apr 2017 New CEO for NZX
10 Apr 2017 Final price fixing defendants get $1.5m fine
10 Apr 2017 Rate rises not prompting action
10 Apr 2017 Stop tarring investors with speculator brush
10 Apr 2017 Unlocking the gold in your client base…
10 Apr 2017 Major changes for Reserve Bank?
10 Apr 2017 Landlords on notice - MBIE
10 Apr 2017 Beware a 2019 recession
10 Apr 2017 NZ’s hottest suburbs: highest yield locations exposed
10 Apr 2017 Financial Advice plan to be revealed next month
10 Apr 2017 Shareholders chip in
09 Apr 2017 Accuro launches kids policy
09 Apr 2017 FSC makes appointments
07 Apr 2017 Shortfall to get worse before it gets better
07 Apr 2017 Are Kiwi firms blinded by fintech start-ups?
07 Apr 2017 Surprise, surprise. Rates fall
07 Apr 2017 Getting to Know: David Whyte
06 Apr 2017 Auckland no longer least affordable
06 Apr 2017 New chair and deputy for Accuro
06 Apr 2017 Lending growth will slow – S&P
06 Apr 2017 The mortgage rate creep continues
06 Apr 2017 Ready for Bretirement?
06 Apr 2017 Spotlight on emerging tech and financial markets
06 Apr 2017 Apartment attraction on the rise
06 Apr 2017 Thursday news in brief
06 Apr 2017 Reserve Bank reviews insurance rules
06 Apr 2017 Advisers can work with many entities: MBIE
05 Apr 2017 Auckland market different now – B&T
05 Apr 2017 Shallow LVR effect likely - QV
05 Apr 2017 Advice firms give up on pursuing restraint of trade cases through court
05 Apr 2017 Research shows benefit of advice
05 Apr 2017 Milford Asset Management gets new advice head
04 Apr 2017 AMP Capital launches fund with focus on absolute return
04 Apr 2017 Challenging times for credit unions
04 Apr 2017 Bubble risk for halo regions
04 Apr 2017 Rate hikes continue to trickle through
04 Apr 2017 Mortgage Express, Q Advisor Group signal closer ties
04 Apr 2017 New role for Fidelity man
04 Apr 2017 PAA: Draft bill essentially 'demoting the AFAs'
04 Apr 2017 New Simplicity Investment Funds could save Kiwis $1/2 billion annually in fees
03 Apr 2017 Warminger appeals High Court ruling
03 Apr 2017 Tackle restrictions on development - report
03 Apr 2017 Investors' learned behaviour in need of revision?
03 Apr 2017 The Co-Op Bank now pricing loans on risk
03 Apr 2017 Dunedin experiencing growth
03 Apr 2017 Industry rallies to make its voice heard
03 Apr 2017 ANZ to refuse handwritten applications
01 Apr 2017 Auckland property listings jump up
March 2017
31 Mar 2017 Top 10 value adding renovation tips
31 Mar 2017 HSBC's turn today
31 Mar 2017 Risk based pricing for Co-op Bank personal loans
31 Mar 2017 ASIC review calls for commission overhaul
31 Mar 2017 Getting to Know: Michael Dowling
31 Mar 2017 Flat line in consents continues
30 Mar 2017 Eagerly awaited meth standard delayed
30 Mar 2017 New fire levy rates announced
30 Mar 2017 Thursday news in brief
30 Mar 2017 Synergy launches SRI portfolios
30 Mar 2017 Young women take up advice posts
29 Mar 2017 Market slowdown different this time
29 Mar 2017 Revamp planning system, end crisis
29 Mar 2017 SBS raises floating rate
29 Mar 2017 FARs - where's the accountability?
28 Mar 2017 AIA offers bolt-on cancer drug cover
28 Mar 2017 Investor confidence remains high across most of NZ
28 Mar 2017 Older people priced out of insurance
28 Mar 2017 No submission but Financial Advice NZ 'active' on new rules
27 Mar 2017 NZ Funds drops Wellington investment
27 Mar 2017 OCR predictions; Mortgage adviser survey
27 Mar 2017 Responsible Investing Part Two: implications for everyone in financial markets
27 Mar 2017 More AFAs and Govt eyeing ways to keep them
27 Mar 2017 New cash rules 'no big deal for advisers'
27 Mar 2017 McEwan gets top Massey honour
24 Mar 2017 Want to develop the new code?
24 Mar 2017 AMP offers zero fees
24 Mar 2017 Address Auckland infrastructure issues
24 Mar 2017 AIA appoints Golden Boots as global ambassador
24 Mar 2017 Tenant magnetism: top 10 tips
24 Mar 2017 What keeps mortgage advisers awake at night?
24 Mar 2017 Friday news in brief
24 Mar 2017 PIE Funds reopens soft-closed fund
24 Mar 2017 Getting to Know: Rosemary Hassan
23 Mar 2017 Law change won't redraw boundaries
Latest News
Koura reports another loss
Koura reports another loss
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Can AI pick the best KiwiSaver provider?
Can AI pick the best KiwiSaver provider?
4 min read
[Weekly Wrap] What we know, and don't know, about Labour's retirement policies. Plus a potential surprise
[Weekly Wrap] What we know, and don't know, about Labour's retirement policies. Plus a potential surprise
2 min read
NZX aims for 5% of KiwiSaver market in three-to-five years
NZX aims for 5% of KiwiSaver market in three-to-five years
3 min read
Latest Comments
FE Investments in receivership
Fei , trustees still hold large of money not yet refund fully.
1 week ago Raymond Yang
Who is responsible for notifying policy changes?
There is no doubt the obligation is on the insurer who the contract is with. Clearly it would be prudent for an adviser to assist once given clear information by an insurer to assist with the communication but to extend this further. For an insurer to attempt to slide this onto an advisers plate is abdication. The adviser can not change the contract.
1 week ago Darryl Scott
FMA CEO on leave
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the fundamental flaw in the legislation came about partly through the event that Murray mentions, and also through the negligence of the Select Committee in ignoring the single most cited recommendation in all the submissions (over 34% from memory) of drawing a distinction between product sales and financial advice. To add to their misdemeanour, the Committee then added a paragraph to the Bill confirming that recommendation of one product only constituted financial advice - or words to that effect. The inherent conflict of interest lies in an individual retained by a Class 4 licensee being required to adhere to a code of conduct that requires prioritisation of client interests. To expect a product sales person to subordinate their contractual obligation to their employer is unrealistic, unworkable, and unreasonable. To emphasise, I have no issue with a product provider marketing and selling their own products - but not behind the opaque veil of legislation intended to govern financial advice. If MBIE ever gets around to review FSLAA, Financial Advisers, FANZ, and all other interested stakeholders should mount a fully-funded intensive campaign to persuade our employees in Wellington to remove class 4 licensees from FSLAA, and replace their obligations within an amended CoFI Act.
2 weeks ago David Whyte
FMA CEO on leave
@Murray: The reps seemed to be acting on their personal interests rather than the interests of advisers. Conflict of interest, isn't it?
3 weeks ago w k
KiwiSaver funds shake off Middle East tension
In this recent presentation of mine https://www.knowrisk.co.nz I show that the average Balanced KiwiSaver fund has added approximately +0.43% over and above the gross average policy Benchmark's return's. However, the averge annual costs of -0.97% for Balanced funds have eroded that to be slighly below BMK after costs consistent with typical SPIVA studies. Note this cost number is for the 45 Balanced Funds used only - for all KiwiSaver Funds it is closer to -0.70% p.a. The presentation goes on to show that quite a bit of return is being left on the table by the one size fits all view of risk.
3 weeks ago P Urbani