Tag: FSC
FMA Targets QFE Advice Quality
QFE insurance providers appear to be considering their own risks ahead of their customers when it comes to replacement business, the Financial Markets Authority...
Linking Life Events With Provision of Advice
The idea to tie life events more strongly to certain forms of advice was put forward at the Financial Services Council’s Breakfast event ‘Advice...
Millennials to Rely on KiwiSaver in Old Age
New research commissioned by the Financial Services Council (FSC) has concluded that millennials are going to be ‘Generation Kiwisaver’, as they become more reliant on...
FSC Welcomes KiwiSaver Changes
A number of proposed KiwiSaver changes contained in the Taxation Bill were introduced to Parliament this week.
The changes in the Bill included:
Opening KiwiSaver...
Tap Into Employment to Encourage Financial Advice, Says Insurer
The Managing Director of Partners Life has suggested that the industry turn to employment as a channel to connect people with the concept of...
Minister Faafoi to Address 2018 FSC Conference
The Financial Services Council (FSC) and Workplace Savings NZ have announced Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister, Kris Faafoi, will be making a keynote presentation at...
FMA Asks Insurers to Prove Themselves
The FMA has released the letter it has sent to the chief executives of New Zealand’s licensed life insurers, asking them to prove themselves in...
FMA Report Driving ‘Important Conversation’ on Transparency Around Incentives – FSC
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has welcomed the FMA report on soft commissions (see: FMA Targets Soft Dollar Commissions), which has fuelled discussion on...
UPDATED: FSC and Workplace Savings NZ Conference Returns in 2018
UPDATED: The Minister of Finance, the Hon Grant Robertson, and Jake Bailey with his story ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’, are confirmed guest speakers...