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The KiwiSaver IPO illusion: value created, then quietly lost

ANALYSIS: For a system that was designed to help build New Zealand’s capital base, it is not working out that well.

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KiwiSaver now manages more than $120 billion of New Zealanders’ savings. It was designed to increase savings but also to support a domestic capital market, which it is struggling to do.

The gap between the size of those funds and the strength of the NZX is getting harder to ignore. For a system

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Hillmarè Schulze Mon, 08 Jun 2026
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