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August 2009
24 Aug 2009 ASFONZ Education – Introduction to Workplace Savings
24 Aug 2009 BNZ coy on whether it will return to brokers
23 Aug 2009 Rates Round Up
22 Aug 2009 News Round Up
21 Aug 2009 [Weekly Wrap] ING coughs up $400 million
21 Aug 2009 Out of the woods
21 Aug 2009 Select committee enquiry into finance companies launched
20 Aug 2009 Kiwibank continues break neck growth
20 Aug 2009 Forecasting interest rates dangerous
20 Aug 2009 First home buyers' scheme expanded
20 Aug 2009 Surrenders hit AMP's life book
20 Aug 2009 First home buyers' scheme expanded
20 Aug 2009 ING makes $398m payment to frozen fund investors
20 Aug 2009 Interest rate changes this week
20 Aug 2009 Gap between OCR and 5yrs opens
20 Aug 2009 Marac faces long road to bank status
20 Aug 2009 Marac faces long road to bank status
20 Aug 2009 Westpac warns of waning rates
19 Aug 2009 Bank continues unusual behaviour
19 Aug 2009 Prevent fraud through pre-tenancy checks
19 Aug 2009 PLAN NZ up for sale
19 Aug 2009 Women in Super 'After Five' Function
19 Aug 2009 Capital gains tax back on the menu?
19 Aug 2009 AXA GI swaps Brook for global infrastructure fund
19 Aug 2009 First residential real estate trust on its way
18 Aug 2009 F&P Finance doing better than expected
18 Aug 2009 New philanthropy manager at Guardian
18 Aug 2009 BNZ scraps mobile mortgage managers
18 Aug 2009 SPI Capital: Syndication domination
18 Aug 2009 AMP's new local SRI paves the way for better analysis
17 Aug 2009 Further rate cut unlikely to inflame housing market
17 Aug 2009 BNZ and Kiwibank increase long term TD rates
17 Aug 2009 Mark Childs wins Broker of the Year
17 Aug 2009 Landlord of the Year announced
16 Aug 2009 Rates Round Up
16 Aug 2009 Standards for some advisers could be higher than first thought
16 Aug 2009 Australian economic downturn 'shallower', rates will rise, Stevens say
16 Aug 2009 ShareTrader
14 Aug 2009 NZMBA Conference 2009
14 Aug 2009 [Weekly Wrap] Slings, arrows and a bit of outrageous fortune
14 Aug 2009 Big growth in trauma sales
14 Aug 2009 My earlier advice right, says Alexander
14 Aug 2009 Two top finance companies junked
14 Aug 2009 House prices and sales volumes steady
13 Aug 2009 Two top finance companies junked
13 Aug 2009 Johnson joins Russell
13 Aug 2009 Message in a bottle
13 Aug 2009 Yield curve gets even steeper
13 Aug 2009 Kiwibank laying down the gauntlet
13 Aug 2009 Brutally competitive deposit rates as banks woo savers
13 Aug 2009 Fyfe on board as new advisory group tees off
13 Aug 2009 Tower expands KiwiSaver development team
13 Aug 2009 PINs protection weakened
13 Aug 2009 Capital gains tax on property still alive
12 Aug 2009 Keeping P out of your property
12 Aug 2009 Opinion: Could commission disappear?
12 Aug 2009 Kiwibank set to dump Mercer as its KiwiSaver manager
11 Aug 2009 NZF moves from LMI to LEM
11 Aug 2009 Banks up stakes in the term deposit battle
11 Aug 2009 PIS National Conference 2009
11 Aug 2009 Market Review: August 2009 Commentary
11 Aug 2009 Market Review: August 2009 London Commentary
11 Aug 2009 House prices set to soar
11 Aug 2009 Head announced for Perpetual Asset Management
11 Aug 2009 Ombudsman looks to open service to advisers
10 Aug 2009 Market getting ahead of itself with pricing in rate rises
10 Aug 2009 Rates round-up
10 Aug 2009 Fee-based firm looks to grow
10 Aug 2009 Vidler changes tack at Fidelity Life
10 Aug 2009 Property values rise for third straight month
10 Aug 2009 Regional snapshot: QV
07 Aug 2009 [Weekly Wrap] Pierce to leave AIG; ING Life appoints new MD
07 Aug 2009 Data re-vamp good news for investors
07 Aug 2009 Pierce to leave AIG
07 Aug 2009 ING Life appoints new MD
07 Aug 2009 REINZ house price index gets makeover
07 Aug 2009 Kiwi commodities missing out on inflation-hedging opportunities
07 Aug 2009 Now a good time to buy a house: survey
06 Aug 2009 RB mum on who it has given exemptions too
06 Aug 2009 Employment numbers help keep rates low
06 Aug 2009 SBS raises rates: Will others follow?
06 Aug 2009 Current swap rates docile
06 Aug 2009 ASFONZ 2009 Forum
06 Aug 2009 Long term rates steep.
06 Aug 2009 Camelot Mid-Year Conference
06 Aug 2009 Where's Boris?
06 Aug 2009 IRG looks for $500,000 in capital
05 Aug 2009 Recovery of collapsed finance company books starts
05 Aug 2009 Women in Finance Lunch
05 Aug 2009 Auckland home sales fall as listings rise
05 Aug 2009 Everyone's an adviser, but not necessarily a financial planner
05 Aug 2009 [Book] The Housing Bubble by Kieran Trass
04 Aug 2009 Officials still deciding whether insurance products Category 1or 2
04 Aug 2009 PAA August Roadshow
04 Aug 2009 More signs banks easing lending rules
04 Aug 2009 Brown steps down from ombudsman
04 Aug 2009 Taskforce calls for even tougher regulation on financial advisers
04 Aug 2009 Banks driving apartment buyers to the suburbs
03 Aug 2009 Still some hope OCR will be cut again this year
03 Aug 2009 Investing made easy: Knowledge is power
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