A new Asset for advisers

A new monthly magazine written specifically for advisers in New Zealand will be available this week.

Asset is published by Tarawera Publishing the company behind Good Returns.

Good Returns will remain your number one source of news, information and data. Asset will go behind the headlines and provide readers with in-depth features and interviews, regular columns and commentary.

In the first issue of Asset magazine advisers will:

• Find out more about the Securities Commission's plans to tighten up disclosure rules, and how it will impact on them.
• Meet the new boss at AXA, Vaughan Underwood.
• Learn about how the Internet is becoming one of their major competitors.

One of the goals of Asset is to provide regular commentary and opinion. In the April issue Reserve Bank deputy governor Rod Carr points out that New Zealand is one of the most indebted nations in the world and that poses a number of challenges to advisers when it comes to portfolio construction.

Economics New Zealand managing director Donal Curtin provides the first of his monthly columns. In this issue he asks whether the recovery in the United States is all it's cracked up to be.

Also Asset looks at what's happening in the mortgage trust sector, and there is a practice management series designed to give advisers tools and strategies to help them run their businesses.

Asset also includes a crossword, a books section, and Jobline.

Tarawera Publishing managing director Philip Macalister says that Asset is totally complementary to Good Returns.

Asset will build on the reputation Good Returns has established as a provider of high quality, accurate and timely news for people interested in personal finance.