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Alun Rees-Williams

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290 total appearances

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The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

Yeah, exactly.

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The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

Yeah.

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The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

Look, it's not common common for people.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

Some people keep track.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

You find people with multiple schemes like that tend to have smaller balances.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

They might have worked somewhere for two years, somewhere else for two years, somewhere for three years.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

So they have a lot of small balances as opposed to someone – we had a case years ago and we had one client that came to us with a pension transfer that he thought was about Β£400,000, so a lot of money to start with.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

It wasn't a Kiwi who'd been overseas but an immigrant.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

We did some tracking down for him.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

It turns out he had two policies with the same company that he thought were the same scheme because they had similar balances, so Β£400,000 plus Β£400,000.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

So that's probably about four or five years ago.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

And funnily enough, we have a case just landed in the last week where we transferred someone's money 10 years ago.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

And for some reason, a UK company called Aviva have just caught up with him and sent him a statement balance and it's about 236,000 pounds, which he never knew he had.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

So is it common?

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

Not hugely, but they are interesting when they come up and people are life-changing for some people.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

Yeah.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

Yep.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

Yes.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

So if you think about the two different tax regimes, New Zealand is what we call TTE.

The Prosperity Project
The forgotten pension money Kiwis are leaving behind

So your money's taxed before it goes in.

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