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December 1999
07 Dec 1999 Smoking: a question of lifestyle or health?
07 Dec 1999 NZ Super is like an old-fashioned wobble doll
06 Dec 1999 Here come the banks
06 Dec 1999 Labour lacks support for its super policy
05 Dec 1999 How to avoid the 39 cent tax rate
05 Dec 1999 Weekly briefs
03 Dec 1999 Taskforce wants goverance structure changed
03 Dec 1999 Plea for cross-party consensus on super
02 Dec 1999 AJ lures new clients
02 Dec 1999 Banks raise their floating rates
02 Dec 1999 Raising private capital
02 Dec 1999 Fund management practices come under scrutiny
02 Dec 1999 Oh dear, Michael Cullen really believes he knows best
02 Dec 1999 Labour to axe super taskforce
01 Dec 1999 Charity begins at home
01 Dec 1999 No guarantee high returns from property will continue
01 Dec 1999 GREY POWER WELCOMES THE CANNING OF TASK FORCE 2000
November 1999
30 Nov 1999 Major bank joins the pack with redraw facility
30 Nov 1999 Change of government
30 Nov 1999 Comment - We can learn from the Aussies
29 Nov 1999 Weekly briefs
28 Nov 1999 Success for the Centre Left means a waiting game for markets
26 Nov 1999 Private capital: A new approach to equities
25 Nov 1999 New Zealand part of Australia? No way cobber
25 Nov 1999 What does the election mean for the savings industry?
24 Nov 1999 Joint ownership: a cautionary tale
24 Nov 1999 Global bonds turned the corner
24 Nov 1999 Retirement Savings with your Employer II
24 Nov 1999 Retirement Savings with your Employer I
24 Nov 1999 GST Funded Super
24 Nov 1999 "Critical analysis" of Labour's super policy is fundamentally flawed i
23 Nov 1999 Labour and the Alliance differ on super
22 Nov 1999 What's on offer this election w
21 Nov 1999 Weekly briefs
21 Nov 1999 Shuffle shuffle
21 Nov 1999 Super - political football kicked into touch
21 Nov 1999 Helen Clark promises to keep the faith
19 Nov 1999 Rebranding an old warhorse
18 Nov 1999 Bear market in time, not price, US expert says
17 Nov 1999 Trusts: Love and affection can extend beyond the family
17 Nov 1999 No surprises on OCR
17 Nov 1999 Superannuation stirs
17 Nov 1999 Superannuation stirs
17 Nov 1999 Calculating the extra tax needed
17 Nov 1999 What's wrong with Labour's New Zealand Superannuation Fund proposal?
17 Nov 1999 Only Labour would pay decent pensions
17 Nov 1999 Experts agree Labour’s Super Policies Fundamentally Flawed
15 Nov 1999 People: John Drabble<br>AMP general manager
15 Nov 1999 WiNZ a winner
14 Nov 1999 Weekly briefs
14 Nov 1999 Home loan with a twist
12 Nov 1999 Australian planners say compulsory super doesn't workn
10 Nov 1999 Hold on to your houses
10 Nov 1999 IRD audits life offices
10 Nov 1999 Planner Profile:John Neas, TOWER Financial Advisory Services
10 Nov 1999 Return expectations rise
09 Nov 1999 Property News
09 Nov 1999 Simpler taxes, but not necessarily lower
08 Nov 1999 Eriksen's Master Trust Surveyat
08 Nov 1999 Weekly briefs
07 Nov 1999 Cloud over borrowing
07 Nov 1999 Research: Making sense of property investments
06 Nov 1999 Why do I need to invest?
05 Nov 1999 Universality is essentially another of NZ's unfortunate Muldoonist leg
05 Nov 1999 Roundtable says pension should be a benefit
04 Nov 1999 Watch out for global growth
04 Nov 1999 Signs of life in insurance bonds
03 Nov 1999 NZ equity funds do well
03 Nov 1999 What's wrong with New Zealand's taxation regime?
02 Nov 1999 Keen demand for holiday homes
02 Nov 1999 Property news
02 Nov 1999 Political parties asked if they could work together on super
01 Nov 1999 Dow becomes more relevant
01 Nov 1999 Should NZers consider Australia part of the local market Mate?
October 1999
31 Oct 1999 Few bargains left on floating rates
31 Oct 1999 Weekly briefs
31 Oct 1999 The 'right of citizenship' wins out
31 Oct 1999 The 'right of citizenship' wins out
29 Oct 1999 RSB investors likely to get all their money back
28 Oct 1999 Watch out for the Wizard...
28 Oct 1999 Adding value to syndicated property
28 Oct 1999 The last thing superannuation needs is revolutionary change: Anderton
28 Oct 1999 Thinking Ahead - Planning your savings
27 Oct 1999 National Bank holds out on mortgage rates
27 Oct 1999 Glossary of terms
26 Oct 1999 ISI floats "radical" tax package
26 Oct 1999 Weekly briefs
25 Oct 1999 Fraudsters found fiddling the figures
21 Oct 1999 Minto takes up new position
21 Oct 1999 Property market picks up
21 Oct 1999 Small company funds quarter in the spotlight
21 Oct 1999 New Zealand’s publicly provided Retirement Income
21 Oct 1999 Should NZ Super be a benefit or an entitlement
20 Oct 1999 The National Bank Investment Race - Just like Investment Markets
19 Oct 1999 Tower manages its<br>fund line-up
19 Oct 1999 BNZ move could spark further rate increases
19 Oct 1999 We've got nothing to hide: Russell
19 Oct 1999 A policy with everything
19 Oct 1999 The Greens super policy
18 Oct 1999 What the research houses have to say about <i>Consumers'</i> list of t
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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.
3 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