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Time running out for claims licences

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... these services were not required to hold an AFSL or be an authorised representative. This exclusion has now been removed. Treasury is still consulting on regulation of insurance claimant intermediaries, so further reforms could be on the cards.

NZ Super Fund appoints two GMs

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... officer in 2007 and went on to become general manager of portfolio completion in 2012. Prior to this, he held senior treasury or risk management roles at The Warehouse Group, Forestry Corporation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and NZ Railways ...

Chief economist update: Too much of a good thing could be a bad thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... America's public debt soared from US$9 trillion to US$21 trillion between 2010 and 2020. So much so that benchmark 10-year US Treasury bond yields have risen to a 14-month high of 1.78%. This suggests that Uncle Sam would be paying higher interest ...

ISA chief economist departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... economics at La Trobe, and a master's in public policy at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He has worked at the Treasury as a fiscal strategy specialist, and the department of finance. In 2007, he founded his own company Macroeconomics, to ...

K2 Asset Management co-founder exits board

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... Equity Trustees. Boubouras has also held senior roles at HSBC Global Asset Management, Macquarie Group, Westpac, NSW Treasury and UBS (then SBC). Newman owns about 13.4 million KAM shares, according to his final directors' interest notice filed with ...

Chief economist update: Australia's virtuous cycle keeps on turning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... world's biggest importer of iron ore. In its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) handed down in December 2020, the Treasury forecast that iron ore prices will drop to US$55.0 per tonne by the end of September 2021 quarter. Iron ore prices ...

QSuper pokes holes in YFYS legislation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
... reversal of the burden of proof, and the limitations of APRA's new performance measures for superannuation funds. Treasury in October 2020 introduced new APRA benchmarking for superannuation funds, which would cut inflows of new member funds to any ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... private sector. More people held on to their jobs, more businesses kept their doors open, and more incomes were saved." Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's testimony was equally optimistic: "We are meeting at a hopeful moment for the economy"; "we're ...

WTW wins mandate from NZ government super fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... standards and procedures for their appropriateness and compliance. The final report will have to be delivered to New Zealand Treasury by mid-May this year. "Following the Treasury's Request for Proposal to execute the one-in-five-year statutory review ...

Banks should pay advice exit levy: TAA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... of the past, largely committed by the big end of town, is unconscionable," Macdonald said. The TAA acknowledged that Treasury is responsible for the model that causes the levy hikes and is pushing for a remodel and review of the downstream impact of ...