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Each week the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB's Cooking The Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's how to supercharge your KiwiSaver without spending a cent. Hosted by Frances Cook.
It's been ten years since KiwiSaver launched, and now it seems that the Financial Markets Authority is losing patience with how the scheme is being run.
The FMA is the watchdog that makes sure you and I don't get ripped off when it comes to investing our money. So it's a big deal that last week they fired a warning shot a KiwiSaver providers, telling those running the default accounts that they need to do better.
If you signed up to KiwiSaver, but never chose where your money went or what type of fund it went into, you're in a default account. Those default accounts are conservative, which means there's very little risk to them, but also much less reward.
You could be missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars, when switching wouldn't cost you a cent.
Those default accounts were never meant to be permanent, and the providers are supposed to help you decide what to do next, and what type of fund is best for you.
But in the year to 31 March 2017, 16,902 people switched out of their default fund and into a better one. That's way down from the 28,608 the year before.
Now the FMA says that has to change. They want the default providers to explain what's going on, and come up with a plan to do better.
But hey, why wait for them to get their act together when there's plenty we can do ourselves?
I called AUT professor of finance Bart Frijns, to pick his brains on what people can do to make their KiwiSaver better.
We talked about how what type of fund you're in matters more than how much money you put into it, and what providers can do to look after their customers better. For the interview, listen to the podcast.
If you have a question about this podcast, or something you want me to look into for next time, come and talk to me about it. I'm on Facebook here www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist and Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesCook
It's been ten years since KiwiSaver launched, and now it seems that the Financial Markets Authority is losing patience with how the scheme is being run.
The FMA is the watchdog that makes sure you and I don't get ripped off when it comes to investing our money. So it's a big deal that last week they fired a warning shot a KiwiSaver providers, telling those running the default accounts that they need to do better.
If you signed up to KiwiSaver, but never chose where your money went or what type of fund it went into, you're in a default account. Those default accounts are conservative, which means there's very little risk to them, but also much less reward.
You could be missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars, when switching wouldn't cost you a cent.
Those default accounts were never meant to be permanent, and the providers are supposed to help you decide what to do next, and what type of fund is best for you.
But in the year to 31 March 2017, 16,902 people switched out of their default fund and into a better one. That's way down from the 28,608 the year before.
Now the FMA says that has to change. They want the default providers to explain what's going on, and come up with a plan to do better.
But hey, why wait for them to get their act together when there's plenty we can do ourselves?
I called AUT professor of finance Bart Frijns, to pick his brains on what people can do to make their KiwiSaver better.
We talked about how what type of fund you're in matters more than how much money you put into it, and what providers can do to look after their customers better. For the interview, listen to the podcast.
If you have a question about this podcast, or something you want me to look into for next time, come and talk to me about it. I'm on Facebook here www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist and Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesCook
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Each week the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB's Cooking The Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's how to supercharge your KiwiSaver without spending a cent. Hosted by Frances Cook.
It's been ten years since KiwiSaver launched, and now it seems that the Financial Markets Authority is losing patience with how the scheme is being run.
The FMA is the watchdog that makes sure you and I don't get ripped off when it comes to investing our money. So it's a big deal that last week they fired a warning shot a KiwiSaver providers, telling those running the default accounts that they need to do better.
If you signed up to KiwiSaver, but never chose where your money went or what type of fund it went into, you're in a default account. Those default accounts are conservative, which means there's very little risk to them, but also much less reward.
You could be missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars, when switching wouldn't cost you a cent.
Those default accounts were never meant to be permanent, and the providers are supposed to help you decide what to do next, and what type of fund is best for you.
But in the year to 31 March 2017, 16,902 people switched out of their default fund and into a better one. That's way down from the 28,608 the year before.
Now the FMA says that has to change. They want the default providers to explain what's going on, and come up with a plan to do better.
But hey, why wait for them to get their act together when there's plenty we can do ourselves?
I called AUT professor of finance Bart Frijns, to pick his brains on what people can do to make their KiwiSaver better.
We talked about how what type of fund you're in matters more than how much money you put into it, and what providers can do to look after their customers better. For the interview, listen to the podcast.
If you have a question about this podcast, or something you want me to look into for next time, come and talk to me about it. I'm on Facebook here www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist and Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesCook
It's been ten years since KiwiSaver launched, and now it seems that the Financial Markets Authority is losing patience with how the scheme is being run.
The FMA is the watchdog that makes sure you and I don't get ripped off when it comes to investing our money. So it's a big deal that last week they fired a warning shot a KiwiSaver providers, telling those running the default accounts that they need to do better.
If you signed up to KiwiSaver, but never chose where your money went or what type of fund it went into, you're in a default account. Those default accounts are conservative, which means there's very little risk to them, but also much less reward.
You could be missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars, when switching wouldn't cost you a cent.
Those default accounts were never meant to be permanent, and the providers are supposed to help you decide what to do next, and what type of fund is best for you.
But in the year to 31 March 2017, 16,902 people switched out of their default fund and into a better one. That's way down from the 28,608 the year before.
Now the FMA says that has to change. They want the default providers to explain what's going on, and come up with a plan to do better.
But hey, why wait for them to get their act together when there's plenty we can do ourselves?
I called AUT professor of finance Bart Frijns, to pick his brains on what people can do to make their KiwiSaver better.
We talked about how what type of fund you're in matters more than how much money you put into it, and what providers can do to look after their customers better. For the interview, listen to the podcast.
If you have a question about this podcast, or something you want me to look into for next time, come and talk to me about it. I'm on Facebook here www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist and Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesCook
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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