Welcome to SuperNews - February 2010
SuperNews is our bi-monthly electronic newsletter, keeping you abreast of what's happening in the workplace savings industry.
Feedback, comments and submissions for SuperNews are welcomed - Contact us, we appreciate hearing from our members!
Membership Renewal
By now all of the nominated representatives for each of our member organisations will have recevied communications regarding subscriptions for 2010. A reminder to please action your membership renewal.
If you haven't heard or received anything from us yet, please let us know!
Your membership is highly valued by Workplace Savings NZ as it strengthens the collective voice of the workplace retirement savings industry, and helps our organisation go forward.
Our thanks to those who have renewed already. We look forward to having your continued support for this year and beyond.
If you have any queries about membership please contact us.
Legislative Change
Workplace Savings NZ has been active in the legislative and regulartory changes arena. Our recent submissions include:
We are also in the process of drafting our submissions on:
a) Financial Services Providers (Pre-Implementation Adjustments) Bill - required by the Commerce Select Committee by 25 March 2010.
b) Financial Service Providers (Registration and Disputes Resolution) Act 2008 - "Proposed Reserve Scheme Levies" which is required by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs by 23 March 2010.
c) Securities Trustees and Statutory Supervisors Bill - to receive its first reading and be referred to Select Committee stage very soon.
We are also reviewing the Government's response to the report from the Capital Markets Taskforce. Government has indicated that many of the issues have been added to the upcoming Securities Act Review, and we will keep members informed as this progresses.
2010 National Conference & Super Expo
Christchurch Convention Centre
Thursday 26 & Friday 27 August 2010
If you haven't already, do put these dates in your diary now!
The theme we are exploring during this Conference is Workplace Savings 20/20 - where do we want our industry be in 10 years time and how will we make that happen?
As has been the case at past Conferences, we will also have break-out sessions covering topics of relevance to all sectors of the workplace savings industry.
A programme and speaker line-up is pending, please watch this space.
A big thank you to those who sent in suggestions for speakers and presentation topics - these are great ideas and we are working on incorporating these into the Conference programme.
2010 AGM & Council Elections
The 2010 Annual General Meeting of Workplace Savings NZ Incorporated will be held Wednesday 28 April 2010.
This will be an after-5 function at the Wellington Club (88 The Terrace, Wellington) and we hope you can join us for drinks & nibbles.
The Workplace Savings NZ Council requires changes to its make-up in 2010. Nominations for Council members will be called for next month.
Below is a list of our current members of Council:
Re-elected 2007, Must stand-down 2010
Bruce Dutton
John Melville
David Penney
Must stand for Re-Election 2010
David Ireland
Murray Sarelius
Continuing
Monica Davis
Graham Evans
Dianne Kidd
Ian Miller
Perhaps you may like to help out at governance level at Workplace Savings NZ? Here is your chance! Keep an eye out for our Council Elections notice.
March Industry Breakfasts
Workplace Savings NZ & Women in Super are pleased to present Andrew Pease (Investment Strategist, Russell Investments) as our guest speaker for our upcoming March industry breakfasts.
Andrew will talk about the global market outlook for 2010. We hope you can join us for this presentation in either Wellington or Auckland.
Wellington (click here to register)
Wednesday 31 March 2010, 7.30 - 9.00 am
The Wellington Club, 88 The Terrace, Wellington
Auckland (click here to register)
Thursday 1 April 2010, 7.30 - 9.00 am
The Auckland Club, 34 Shortland Street, Auckland
These breakfast presentations offer professionals an ideal networking opportunity to meet other people from within the workplace retirement savings industry.
Communication Awards 2010
Workplace Savings NZ would like to encourage those schemes who have a March year-end, to take a look at the content from our 2009 Communication Awards winners - you could consider incorporating those elements that made our Awards winners successful into your own reporting.
You can view these examples on our website, please click here.
And don't forget - you can always enter your report into our 2010 Communication Awards.
Welcome New Members
Workplace Savings NZ extends a warm welcome to our newest member, Prime Consulting Services (based in Auckland).
And we welcome back Perpetual Trust Ltd. to the Workplace Savings NZ membership.
Media Releases
A snapshot of our recent releases to the media:
19 February 2010 - KiwiSaver transfer process needs streamlining
Workplace Savings NZ - the voice of workplace savings - says streamlining the transfer process between different providers is necessary to improve the KiwiSaver experience. The comments follow a meeting of KiwiSaver providers in Auckland this week more>
Our Chairman, David Ireland, has penned an article titled Guiding employees on workplace savings ready to be published in the March edition of Employment Today - a leading independent HR and employment law magazine. Keep an eye out for it! This will also be published on our website.
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