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February 2005
02 Feb 2005 Improving savings levels appears on Govt's agenda
02 Feb 2005 What the PM said on Savings Initiatives
01 Feb 2005 Large fund outflows confound experts
January 2005
31 Jan 2005 New survey reveals interesting facts about superannuation
31 Jan 2005 News Round Up
28 Jan 2005 TOWER QuickStart 2005
28 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
28 Jan 2005 Interesting and uncertain year ahead: Caton
27 Jan 2005 Home loan wars keep houses affordable
27 Jan 2005 Mortgage rate wars keep home loans affordable
27 Jan 2005 Mortgage rate wars keep home loans affordable
27 Jan 2005 Manukau property developers face new levy
27 Jan 2005 Dream of own home becoming nightmare
27 Jan 2005 Reserve Bank leaves interest rates unchanged
27 Jan 2005 Property tax cheats in IRD sights
27 Jan 2005 Institute to fight rent rule at resorts
27 Jan 2005 Trusts on surge for five years
27 Jan 2005 Rate rise not expected this week: Economists
27 Jan 2005 House prices on the rise on the North Shore
27 Jan 2005 TOWER QuickStart 2005
27 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
27 Jan 2005 Advancing Enterprise Ltd (AEL)
27 Jan 2005 Allen Realty
27 Jan 2005 Premier Mortgages
27 Jan 2005 The Document Factory
27 Jan 2005 Rotherhams
27 Jan 2005 Placefinders
27 Jan 2005 Sovereign
27 Jan 2005 Accounts Online
27 Jan 2005 Dulux
27 Jan 2005 Guthrie Bowron
27 Jan 2005 Rolston Group of Companies
27 Jan 2005 Reserve Bank leaves interest rates unchanged
27 Jan 2005 Company Solutions Ltd
27 Jan 2005 Hybrid Group
27 Jan 2005 Bluestone Mortgages
27 Jan 2005 Deposit Power
27 Jan 2005 OCR unchanged at 6.5%
27 Jan 2005 ISI to advocate major changes to advisers: Arkinstall
26 Jan 2005 TOWER QuickStart 2005
26 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
26 Jan 2005 Where will the new minister take the taskforce?
26 Jan 2005 What NZ First and George W Bush have in common
25 Jan 2005 Tower hints at further growth
25 Jan 2005 TOWER QuickStart 2005
25 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
25 Jan 2005 UPDATED: Australian hedge fund appears in NZ
25 Jan 2005 TOWER Health & Life appoints new BDM
24 Jan 2005 TOWER QuickStart 2005
24 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
24 Jan 2005 AIA January speaker series
24 Jan 2005 News Round Up
24 Jan 2005 Labour of love pays off - Mary Holm
24 Jan 2005 Kiwi Income to review its fees
24 Jan 2005 Hawke's Bay, Auckland home prices fall
24 Jan 2005 IRD cracks down on property investment schemes
24 Jan 2005 Steady she goes
24 Jan 2005 Building Act puts brakes on consents
24 Jan 2005 Paying for a million-dollar view
24 Jan 2005 Cheaper house sale fee pledged
24 Jan 2005 Rate rise not expected this week: Economists
24 Jan 2005 Stay of execution for deco block
24 Jan 2005 Warning on investor's land splurge
24 Jan 2005 House sales in 2004 just shy of record
24 Jan 2005 Inflation hits two-year high
24 Jan 2005 Macquarie Goodman adds to South Sydney estate
24 Jan 2005 Two-year rates still a good deal: economist
23 Jan 2005 Spicers to start using finance companies
21 Jan 2005 Newland joins St Laurence and takes a stake
21 Jan 2005 Managed funds produce good returns in 2004
20 Jan 2005 House prices stable, but fewer selling
20 Jan 2005 House prices see some consolidation
20 Jan 2005 Allocating money to NZ assets in 2005
20 Jan 2005 What I like about our industry
20 Jan 2005 Asteron buys Stone & Associates
19 Jan 2005 Why I like financial services
19 Jan 2005 United pushes for tax deductibility of super payments
19 Jan 2005 United pushes for tax deductibility of super payments
18 Jan 2005 Trass reckons no property crash on cards
18 Jan 2005 Macquarie appoints new director
18 Jan 2005 News Round Up
17 Jan 2005 Two-year rates still a good deal: economist
17 Jan 2005 Firm offers probes to test house damp risk
17 Jan 2005 Confidence brings rise in Australian home loans
17 Jan 2005 Many turn a deaf ear to house alarms
17 Jan 2005 Council still out on Urupukapuka redevelopment
17 Jan 2005 Bankrupt man living in luxury
17 Jan 2005 Rent dispute has publicans kept out of their own bar
17 Jan 2005 TDC eyes expansion
17 Jan 2005 Investors still optimisic despite good year
14 Jan 2005 Australian banks likely to takeover mortgage brokers: Deloitte
14 Jan 2005 Too hard, says News as it hands over super
14 Jan 2005 Too hard, says News as it hands over super
12 Jan 2005 Alternative investments picked for 2005
12 Jan 2005 Julie Chambers: Back to front policy for old buildings
12 Jan 2005 Fletchers in $425m buy-up
12 Jan 2005 More data hints at slowing property market
12 Jan 2005 Five-star tourist apartments planned
12 Jan 2005 Fixing our image
12 Jan 2005 Call for investigation
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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.
2 weeks 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.
3 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