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PIS pre-empts NZ adviser surge

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2007
Professional Investment Services New Zealand has announced it will purchase more financial advice and insurance businesses in a possible pre-emptive move to accommodate investors rushing to seek advice after KiwiSaver kicks in. Speaking to delegates ...

Talisman now KiwiSaver compliant

New Zealand-based ASB and Trustees Executors were among the funds that used the IT solutions of Australia-based software group Bravura Solutions to comply with the new KiwiSaver legislation. Bravura Solutions has upgraded a number of their clients ...

NZ bourse doubles earnings ahead of KiwiSaver

The New Zealand Exchange has posted a 102 per cent increase in earnings in the first half of 2007 and expects a stronger boost later in the year once the KiwiSaver and other related tax changes kick in. The group has announced that half-year EBITDA ...

AMP NZ shifts passive portfolio to 100% active

The largest fund manager in NZ, AMP Capital Investors, has moved its entire global equities portfolio from 80 per cent passively managed and 20 per cent actively managed to 100 per cent actively managed to take advantage of new rules that will come ...

ABN AMRO Craigs selects Gatekeeper

New Zealand-based advisory group ABN AMRO Craigs has signed up to use Gatekeeper, a new software solution developed by InvestmentLink to cater for new legislation around the KiwiSaver scheme. "With less than five months between the Budget and KiwiSaver ...

Economic round-up: Kiwis at war with inflation

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... rate increases earlier in this cycle&Indeed, at present the risks to domestic activity appear to remain on the upside." The Kiwis' obsession with real estate saw house sales rise 8.1 per cent in April from the same period in 2006. First retail sales ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
The local market will likely open weaker with New York finishing lower and industrial metals prices plunging, with copper dropping to a six-week low on the London Metal Exchange. At 0755 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index ...

Kiwibank fined over lack of disclosure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
New Zealand government-owned bank Kiwibank yesterday pleaded guilty to breaching the Fair Trading Act while a banking group recently appointed as a KiwiSaver default fund is also under investigation. The case concerns banks which failed to properly ...

Aussie super software turns Kiwi

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
IT systems provider InvestmentLink has announced a software package for managed fund providers offering KiwiSaver schemes or Portfolio Investment Entities (PIE funds) to New Zealand investors. Initially, the package only comes with 'Gatekeeper', designed ...

NZ Govt appoints KiwiSaver defaults

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
The New Zealand Government has appointed the six super funds it has chosen as default providers for its KiwiSaver voluntary retirement savings scheme. The six providers are the ASB banking group, AMP, ING, Mercer, National Mutual Corporate Super and ...