The Government has missed a chance to improve New Zealanders’ retirement investment outcomes, Morningstar research shows. Morningstar has released a new report Mind the Gap, which shows the difference in individual investors’ outcomes compared to the asset class as a whole. It calculates fund returns using asset-weighted calculations as opposed to time-weighted returns and takes […]
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Behavioural insights change KiwiSaver behaviour
KiwiSaver members who received engaging communication about making a fund choice are more likley to switch out of default funds, new research has found. The FMA has reported on its work with Kiwi Wealth, which was designed to determine whether behavioural prompts increased the number of active fund choices members made. New Zealand’s nine default […]
Government signals more KiwiSaver changes possible
The Government is cautiously supportive of including higher KiwiSaver contribution rate options and “increasing KiwiSaver coverage” but cannot say yet what that might mean. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Jacqui Dean has released the Government’s response to the Retirement Commissioner, Diane Maxwell’s, review of retirement income policies. Maxwell made a range of recommendations as part […]
$2m ANZ KiwiSaver processing error to be fixed
More than 50,000 of ANZ’s KiwiSaver members will receive an additional member tax credit due to processing errors amounting to about $2 million. ANZ is making a claim on behalf of impacted KiwiSaver members to Inland Revenue for the additional member tax credits to be credited to those customers’ KiwiSaver accounts. Those affected are people […]