Mint offers new fee option to help advisers

Mint Asset Management has started offering a new service to help advisers charge a fee to their clients, but also to provide a way to get advice to people with smaller balances.

Mint's Head of Sales and Marketing, David Boyle, says one of the issues facing advisers is how to get advice to people with smaller balances.

The majority of advisers who work on a fee basis generally are only interested in taking on clients who have portfolios of at least $500,000 or even $1 million. However, most New Zealanders have balances below these levels.

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The programme as promoted so far involves business partners paying $3000 each to help the association deliver projects that promote the value of advice, inform legislators and regulators, encourage new talent into the industry and lift standards.

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