KiwiSaver's overlooked features and performance update

Colin Nefdt | NZ Trends | 25 July 2012

KiwiSaver has been in operation for five years with overall membership approaching two million. It still has its detractors who find fault with design and implementation but the occasional glitch should not detract from the overall success, to date, of KiwiSaver. The generous incentives in place at inception - that surely enticed many people to join - have slowly been withdrawn at the expense of a newly acquired savings habit.

KiwiSaver has a number of inbuilt fe...