Duff calls time on a 63-year insurance career

On January 15, 1958, Warren Duff joined the National Insurance Company in Dunedin beginning what was to be a 63-year career in the insurance industry.

"After some five years, National promoted me to Rotorua as the company were opening a branch and were desperate for staff.  They were long days and not what I enjoyed and after a reassessment of what I was there for, I called on Owen Longhurst, manager at Colonial Mutual Life."

Longhurst said Duff was probably too young at age 25 to sell life insurance but he was prepared to give him ...MORE»

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Advisers’ part to play: FMA KiwiSaver fee guidance

The FMA has released its long-awaited guidance on managed fund fees. Director of investment management Paul Gregory says advisers have their part to play.

The FMA’s long-awaited guidance for investment funds calls on fund managers to annually review their fee structure and value for money, and to prove that they have done so to the FMA.

But one of the most notable aspects of the guidance is the removal of the regulator’s hard line attitude to advice fees. The proposal in the draft guidance that stipulated KiwiSaver providers would have to ...MORE»

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