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Nathan Stanners

Nathan Stanners

KiwiSaver Adviser at Generate KiwiSaver Scheme in Auckland, New Zealand, guest speaker on personal finance and investment topics.

Jun 22, 2026

24:38
... within, uh, the Generate KiwiSaver scheme, but w- what, uh, what approach do you guys take to ethical investing? Because- It, it, life has a lot of gray areas, doesn't it?
24:48
Yeah.
24:48
So I mean, we've got our exclusion framework to start.
24:50
So we look at excluding tobacco manufacturing, nuclear weapons, the manufacturing of cluster munitions, uh, whale meat, anti-personnel mines.
24:58
Those are our outright exclusions.
24:59
And you might think that list is quite slim, but then ultimately it gets very nuanced where your money is going, as you were kind of explaining before.
25:05
So what we do is actually have an analyst.

9 MINS LATER

34:29
So it's really how long have you got to wait for your stock to recover.
9:28
Okay, so what are the standout things, what popped out to you out of the announcement from National? So yeah, let's start from the top,
9:36
especially with the change in contribution rates.
9:38
So we'll lift to 6% by 2032.
9:39
And that's 6%? From both sides.
9:43
So you and your employer on both sides.
9:45
And I imagine that will be staggered.
9:47
So if you're someone who was at home as a businessman who owns a business and you're looking at, hey, look, how much is it going to cost me? It's going to be staggered over a number of years, I expect.

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