{"id":572762,"date":"2026-08-18T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572762\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:50:31","slug":"michelle-levy-on-why-super-funds-must-be-allowed-to-give-personal-advice-and-not-just-default-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572762\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Levy on why super funds must be allowed to give personal advice, and not just default products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recommendations I made in the Quality of Advice Review were intended to make it easier for financial institutions \u2013 banks, superannuation funds and insurers \u2013 to give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/wealth\/superannuation\/super-advice-should-not-limit-choice-and-competition-for-retirees-20260811-p60n8i\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">good financial advice<\/a> to their customers.<\/p>\n<p>My purpose was not to help them sell their products nor to replace professional advisers, but rather to help their customers get a direct, informed and sound answer to the question: \u201cWhat should I do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recommendations I made in the Quality of Advice Review were intended to make it easier for financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-572762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}