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Look into the future with Financial Forecasts

Financial Forecasts - in the Special Report section - is your blueprint to the year ahead.

Wednesday, February 7th 2001, 8:47PM

by Philip Macalister

The past 12 months have been a tough year for investors and advisers, particularly in the area of markets and returns.

In the year ending December 31 nearly all the major indices reported negative returns. The only exceptions where the Canadian and Australian stock markets.

Bonds rallied in the last quarter as central bankers cut rates to keep economic growth going and property had one of those years that are best to forget.

What does 2001 offer?


In Financial Forecasts Good Returns has assembled a group of expert commentators and asked them to look at the year ahead and what it offers.

Two things are clear. On the markets front there is a cautious sense of optimism for returns. There are, as usual, plenty of caveats to these predictions. One of the key ones being that the good news is probably not really due to hit until the second half of the year.

As Bank of New Zealand investment strategist Michael Daly points out in his piece on international sharesthe coming months will "likely provide much ugly economic news," but the situation isn't all doom and gloom.

"We believe excellent buying opportunities will present themselves in 2001."

The other theme to come out of Financial Forecasts is that the environment in which advisers and investors operate in is likely to change significantly.

Firstly there is the Government's proposed multi-billion fund to help pay a small proportion of the state pension in several decades time.

Submissions on the bill close on Friday (February 9). While the bill received overwhelming cross-party support from Parliament to go to a select committee, that doesn't indicate the bill will pass through the next stage easily. As reported earlier some parties are already showing they strongly oppose key aspects.

The essential part of the superannuation process has still to be started. That is what does the Government plan to do in what is known as tier two and tier three parts of superannuation?

Finance minister Michael Cullen has suggested changing the tax system to one based on a tax-exempt-taxed formula which would see allow savings to accumulate tax-free, then be taxed on withdrawal.

However, as Investment Savings and Insurance chief executive Vance Arkinstall and PricewaterhouseCoopers tax partner Paul Mersi point out such a change comes at a cost.

Arkinstall sums up the present situation well in his article. He says that changes need to be made and after a decade of being left in the wilderness there is now the prospect of "significant and positive progress on a range of savings policy and taxation issues."

Investors and advisers need to stay abreast of this changing landscape to ensure they are well positioned for the changes.

Financial Forecasts is forward looking and is designed to help you focus on the issues. Use the links below to read the articles in Financial Forecasts.

Economy: New Zealand's chance to outshine?

International Equities: Buying opportunity coming

NZ Equities: Interesting year predicted

Bonds: Lower returns expected from global bonds

Property: Looking healthier, but still some concerns

Technology: Online advice a reality

Tax: Time for decisions to be made

Super & Savings: The door has opened for positive change

Insurance: Pressure likely to come on some products this year

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