ANZ Investments profit falls, dividend and costs paid to ANZ Bank rise in 2017
By Sophie Boot
Dec. 11 (BusinessDesk) - ANZ New Zealand Investments saw profit fall but income rise in the latest financial year as it
paid a bigger dividend and more in operating costs to its parent company.
Funds management fee income rose 10 percent to $141.6 million in the year to Sept. 30. Operating expenses rose 19
percent to $87 million, and net profit dipped 2.6 percent to $40 million.
The biggest increase in operating expenses came from the expenses it paid back to its immediate parent ANZ Bank New
Zealand. The company paid $48 million in dividends to ANZ, from $40 million a year earlier, and operating expenses from
ANZ Bank, which covers the investment fund's management's salaries along with the premises and technology used by the
fund, increased to $28 million from $18.2 million in 2016.
The fund's investment management expenses rose 15 percent to $22 million n the year, while commissions rose 16 percent
to $18.4 million.
In the year, ANZ New Zealand Investments incurred $5.6 million in new and increased provisions to cover the estimated
gap in its customers' Kiwisaver accounts which came from some members not receiving their full tax credits due to
historical processing errors from the bank. The bank told BusinessDesk that all unpaid member tax credits and a related
investment performance payment have now been repaid to KiwiSaver members.
In June this year, ANZ Bank said it had identified 51,000 Kiwisaver members affected, and most of those would have had
underpaid amounts of $50 or less.
ANZ New Zealand Investments acts as manager for a number of superannuation funds, and had total funds under management
of $13 billion as of Sept. 30, from $11.2 billion a year earlier.
(BusinessDesk)