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September 2012
04 Sep 2012 Shift to fixed continues: Broker charged
04 Sep 2012 China's food pain to be New Zealand's gain
04 Sep 2012 Move to fixed rates continues
04 Sep 2012 Strategi takes over Adviserlink's business
04 Sep 2012 IRD keeps eye on property profit
04 Sep 2012 Rate stategy offers variety
04 Sep 2012 Hamish Douglass Unplugged - Latest Video from Adviser Briefing - August 2012
03 Sep 2012 TSB's mortgage book shrinks due to government restrictions
03 Sep 2012 News Round Up:September 3
03 Sep 2012 The ideal medical insurance product
03 Sep 2012 Westpac maintains market share
03 Sep 2012 New boss plans FundSource rebirth
03 Sep 2012 SBS makes another cut
03 Sep 2012 Inquiries slow for no-reserve auction
03 Sep 2012 More regulation likely for proportionate schemes
03 Sep 2012 Where have the big gains been?
August 2012
31 Aug 2012 Co-operative exploits temporary window to grow low equity mortgages
31 Aug 2012 [Weekly wrap] Calls to reclassify KiwiSaver
31 Aug 2012 Call to relax KiwiSaver advice rules
31 Aug 2012 New Zealand rents too low: Federation
31 Aug 2012 Construction rates up but not enough: Master Builders
31 Aug 2012 High-flier bankrupted
30 Aug 2012 Syndicate wind-up plan approved
30 Aug 2012 IT man for Newpark
30 Aug 2012 PAA gets ETITO tick, new roommate
30 Aug 2012 Heartland to give residential lending the flick
30 Aug 2012 Heartland leaves home loans to the banks
30 Aug 2012 TNP hooks up with Aussie firm
30 Aug 2012 Salvation Army weighs in on affordability
29 Aug 2012 Quake shakes up SBS book
29 Aug 2012 Insurance advisers face non-Pharmac poser
29 Aug 2012 Commission ban no big deal
29 Aug 2012 SBS mortgage book shrinks again
29 Aug 2012 Westpac offers online house hunting tool
29 Aug 2012 Construction work picks up pace
28 Aug 2012 Perpetual challenges FMA raids
28 Aug 2012 Making sense of ASB's strategy
28 Aug 2012 Take care with water charges: MoBIE
28 Aug 2012 Not installers' right to limit access
27 Aug 2012 Investor surprised by lack of adviser lawsuits
27 Aug 2012 Different home loan strategies
27 Aug 2012 GFNZ has new funding line and to complete repayment to former Geneva debentureholders
27 Aug 2012 Loan will be repaid: SPI
27 Aug 2012 ASB & Co cut rates
27 Aug 2012 Syndicated sale of bank building sells out
27 Aug 2012 Insurance warning for investors
26 Aug 2012 Rates round-up: August 26
24 Aug 2012 Price of Morgan's KiwiSaver business revealed
24 Aug 2012 TSB's 15 month rate
24 Aug 2012 [Weekly wrap] Morgan's KiwiSaver pocket money
24 Aug 2012 FMA monitoring not just for AFAs
24 Aug 2012 Prices will keep rising: Economist
23 Aug 2012 Kiwibank's life insurance aspirations
23 Aug 2012 Fisher & Paykel Finance lifts profit 6.9% in four months ended July
23 Aug 2012 S&P slashes GFNZ credit rating to "currently highly vulnerable"
23 Aug 2012 Syndicate wind-up plan opposed
23 Aug 2012 Ground rent debate subdues prices
22 Aug 2012 BNZ and Kiwibank tell their stories
22 Aug 2012 SFO to appeal Capital + Merchant verdict
22 Aug 2012 BNZ's mortgage book growth losing momentum, profit jumps
22 Aug 2012 Kiwibank's mortgage growth momentum slows; need $200m in fresh capital
22 Aug 2012 Workplace financial advice a ‘loss leader’
22 Aug 2012 AMP's new business levels hammered
22 Aug 2012 Apps changing house hunt
22 Aug 2012 Westie property market springs into life
21 Aug 2012 Businesses and households expect subdued inflation
21 Aug 2012 CPD courses come under scrutiny
21 Aug 2012 ANZ sets home loan record
21 Aug 2012 All this draught is daft
21 Aug 2012 Over-valued houses mean nothing for prices: Alexander
20 Aug 2012 New life business bounces back
20 Aug 2012 Tyndall appoints new analyst
20 Aug 2012 ANZ sets record for home loans
20 Aug 2012 Rates round-up: August 20
20 Aug 2012 Minister surprised by lack of draw-down products
20 Aug 2012 Housing market to remain sketchy: ANZ
20 Aug 2012 Low-doc lending finding favour again
20 Aug 2012 Affordability efforts need to broaden focus: ANZ
17 Aug 2012 RIIA executive director to step down
17 Aug 2012 ANZ and National banks move rates
17 Aug 2012 Feeling busy?
17 Aug 2012 [Weekly wrap] Measuring up advice standards
17 Aug 2012 The high life for five-star Partners and Fidelity
17 Aug 2012 Government flunks own advice standards
17 Aug 2012 Property market consolidating: ANZ
17 Aug 2012 Pegasus Town in liquidation
16 Aug 2012 Partners Life joins the Financial Services Council
16 Aug 2012 AMP's premium income up
16 Aug 2012 Rodney Hartles responds to judgment
16 Aug 2012 ASB's branded home loans grow
16 Aug 2012 Problems with pension transfer tax proposal
16 Aug 2012 Savings confidence drops despite KiwiSaver growth
16 Aug 2012 ASB comments on home loans
16 Aug 2012 Regional Review: Porirua pulse
16 Aug 2012 Mortgage enquiries up 50 per cent
15 Aug 2012 Blue Star to keep bondholders in the dark after doing their dough
15 Aug 2012 Dorchester noteholders approve early discounted buyback
15 Aug 2012 The risks of pro bono work
15 Aug 2012 Calling all property investors
15 Aug 2012 Acquisition tipped to push transtasman collaboration
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Koura reports another loss
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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
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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