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March 2017
23 Mar 2017 Deadline needed for clean default schemes: Greens
23 Mar 2017 Partners gets an upgrade from AM Best
23 Mar 2017 BNZ adopts ethical screen on investments
23 Mar 2017 Reaction: OCR - 'Nothing to see here'
23 Mar 2017 OCR decision: 'Nothing to see here'
23 Mar 2017 OCR left on hold: Here's why
23 Mar 2017 OCR left on hold: Here's why
23 Mar 2017 What the RB governor said
23 Mar 2017 Government 'suffocating' peer-to-peer
23 Mar 2017 Dodds: All Blacks must be better than club rugby
23 Mar 2017 JBWere appoints adviser
23 Mar 2017 Ethical fund set for ASX wants Kiwi money
22 Mar 2017 All quiet in lead up to tomorrow's OCR announcement
22 Mar 2017 Generate adds senior portfolio manager
22 Mar 2017 MBIE: Tell us what's better than FAR
22 Mar 2017 Bright line test dents flipping
21 Mar 2017 Migration driver powers on
21 Mar 2017 Improve urban development in NZ - OECD
21 Mar 2017 AIA New Zealand appoints new CEO
21 Mar 2017 HFANZ: Health costs need attention, too
21 Mar 2017 KiwiSaver transfer lags a concern
21 Mar 2017 AMP Capital drops tobacco
20 Mar 2017 Newpark appoints national sales manager
20 Mar 2017 Fidelity adds sales boss
20 Mar 2017 Three rises from SBS
20 Mar 2017 Getting to grips with body corporates
19 Mar 2017 Future returns may be half what investors used to: Singh
19 Mar 2017 First landlord conviction under new tenancy law
17 Mar 2017 Next to no chance of OCR cut
17 Mar 2017 Bold move equals big success
17 Mar 2017 Friday news in brief
17 Mar 2017 FMA files charges over insurance policies
17 Mar 2017 ANZ makes just one change
17 Mar 2017 No monitoring team, no plan for AFAs: FMA
17 Mar 2017 Rent for “typical” NZ house hits all-time high
16 Mar 2017 New fire regs costly, complex for investors
16 Mar 2017 Fed lifts interest rate
16 Mar 2017 Code Committee voices objections
16 Mar 2017 Timing key for contrarian investing
15 Mar 2017 Give tenants greater security - TOP
15 Mar 2017 Agents to 'bid' for new property listings
15 Mar 2017 Negative gearing to go...under Labour
15 Mar 2017 Labour: Support for regulation change
15 Mar 2017 Decline in price growth optimism
14 Mar 2017 Negative gearing to go under Labour
14 Mar 2017 Let's get these adviser rules right
14 Mar 2017 TSB raises rates
14 Mar 2017 Clients' retirement can be ruined by one bad year
14 Mar 2017 White takes top AMP prize again
13 Mar 2017 Hunter Hall to tell shareholders to back merger
13 Mar 2017 Are you being double-taxed?
13 Mar 2017 Auckland house prices down - again
13 Mar 2017 Nikko appointments new Head of Product and Operations
13 Mar 2017 They don’t start out caring, making them care is our job
13 Mar 2017 Warminger's trial shows traders' purpose important
13 Mar 2017 Market flat line continues
10 Mar 2017 What have we learnt this week?
10 Mar 2017 Bridging the finance gap
10 Mar 2017 QROPS providers surprised by tax change
10 Mar 2017 Consumers 'deserve clarity'
10 Mar 2017 REAA gets tough on flipping
09 Mar 2017 Smaller options drive February rebound
09 Mar 2017 Apartments lead the way for Christchurch
09 Mar 2017 Bringing clarity to meth drug haze
09 Mar 2017 Managers pay up for licenses
08 Mar 2017 Share adds advisers
08 Mar 2017 FSC welcomes super move
08 Mar 2017 Auckland affordability a credit negative - Moodys
08 Mar 2017 More changes
08 Mar 2017 FMA: No hard lines on KiwiSaver incentives
08 Mar 2017 Pension age change a minor hiccup for advice clients
08 Mar 2017 Fringe areas approved for urban growth
08 Mar 2017 Illegal renting charge for Molesworth landlord
08 Mar 2017 Insurer tackles meth contamination confusion
07 Mar 2017 KiwiSaver feels hit of rising interest rates
07 Mar 2017 New chairman for Fidelity
07 Mar 2017 DTIs should be in RBNZ toolkit - IMF
07 Mar 2017 Partners to write business without underwriting
07 Mar 2017 Election 2017: what investors need to know
07 Mar 2017 Kiwibank follows suit but still competitive
07 Mar 2017 Risky masonry streets identified
07 Mar 2017 Robo development under way
07 Mar 2017 Advisers must add value in digital future
07 Mar 2017 Advice stalwart farewelled
06 Mar 2017 Super age to rise
06 Mar 2017 Airbnb sub-letting breaches RTA – Tribunal
06 Mar 2017 Consents trending down
06 Mar 2017 ANZ takes floating rates higher
06 Mar 2017 US rate rise likely this month
06 Mar 2017 Low-cost model better for advisers: Simplicity
06 Mar 2017 Elevation signs Australian deal
03 Mar 2017 Court says Warminger manipulated the market
03 Mar 2017 Limited action at lower end of market
03 Mar 2017 Time to invest in Auckland Central
03 Mar 2017 Study options 'discriminatory'
03 Mar 2017 MBIE missed the mark
02 Mar 2017 Renfrew's firm joins Consilium platform
02 Mar 2017 Auction rates reflect quieter market
02 Mar 2017 OCR could go either way, RBNZ says
02 Mar 2017 Interest rate risk equally balanced: RBNZ
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?
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[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
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NZX aims for 5% of KiwiSaver market in three-to-five years
NZX aims for 5% of KiwiSaver market in three-to-five years
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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