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7% say don’t compensate disaster victims who must move

25 May 23 – New Zealanders think insurance companies and local and central government should help compensate home owners whose homes or areas can no longer be lived in because natural disasters will occur there again. A special Horizon Research surveys finds 64% of...
How Kiwis gamble with life through under insurance

27 Jan 20 – New research commissioned by the Financial Services Council (FSC) has revealed the high number of New Zealanders that are underinsured when it comes to their lives, incomes or suffering a major illness. The third and final part in the FSC’s research series on New...
Kiwis are risking everything

19 Jun 19 – New research commissioned by the Financial Services Council (FSC) has revealed many New Zealanders are taking a high stakes gamble on managing risk.The research ‘Risking Everything’, carried out by Horizon Research, looked at New Zealanders' attitudes to financial risk...
Where the money's coming from in retirement

6 Dec 17 – Those over 65 and retired are relying strongly on the New Zealand Superannuation pension income (86%). Research by Horizon for the Financial Services Council, finds...
Trust in charities "moderate" but higher than banks

19 Apr 17 – Charities in New Zealand score a moderate trust rating of 5.9 out of 10. The result is in the 2016 Public Trust and Confidence in Charities survey, conducted for Charities Services by Horizon Research. Trust is slightly down from...
Making a living difficult for writers

6 Mar 17 – A new report that looks at how New Zealand writer’s earn from their writing has revealed that very few are able to...
How long can you stay afloat if you become seriously ill?

18 Nov 15 – Polling shows around half (47%) of employed 18-64 year olds can’t survive for more than a month after using up their sickness and annual leave if they fall seriously ill and can’t work. The Horizon Research survey for the...
Banks, insurance firms financial advisers' main competitors

13 Nov 13 – Banks and insurance companies remain the biggest threat to insurance advisers in spite of the rise of online insurance sales, according to a new survey by Horizon Research. Niko Kloeten, ...
Retirement income: “They have to do something”

30 Oct 13 – The idea of introducing compulsory retirement saving is generally well received among employees on below-average incomes, according to qualitative research conducted through the HorizonPoll panel. Horizon Research recruited 33 people for one-on-one interviews which were...
Insurers can sell a million new policies in next year

20 Mar 13 – A new survey shows just New Zealand adults intend buying more than a million new insurance policies during the next 12 months. Existing customers also intend to increase their existing insurance cover on 695,000 of their policies, but only cancel 94,000 policies. ...
Serious illness equals serious financial trouble

18 Feb 13 – Key point summary: 972,700 households with annual incomes $20,000+ do not have income protection Each year the primary income earner in 14,980 of those households will fall seriously ill and be...
Third of households can't pay bills after 3 weeks' illness

18 Feb 13 – In New Zealand serious illness is 2.6 more times more likely to strike than a serious accident putting an earner off work for six months or more. The accident victim will get 80% of income from Accident Compensation. The illness victim without...
45% more Kiwis aim to change jobs in 2013

10 Jan 13 – 12% of Kiwis 18 years of age or over will look to change jobs in the next twelve months, according to a recent HorizonPoll, and one in twenty will look to go overseas to work. Horizon Research has been listening to New Zealanders’ personal view of their...
Great holiday news for Dunedin HorizonPoll member

10 Jan 13 – He was away on holiday and out of cellphone range. But "far out!" was Mike King's e-mailed response when told he'd won HorizonPoll's end-of-year member prize draw. The $1000 cash has already gone to his bank account and the iPad4 has arrived at his Dunedin home...
63% of New Zealanders say they are not saving enough

7 Mar 12 – 63% of New Zealanders say they are not currently saving enough to retire on a comfortable income. There is widespread concern among New Zealanders over how much income they will have in retirement. Nearly 80% think their savings will run out before...
Budget unlikely to change KiwiSaver savings levels

14 Jun 11 – Research commissioned by the Investment Savings and Insurance Association (ISI) shows that while few New Zealanders support the KiwiSaver changes announced in the Budget, most are likely to remain committed to the scheme. Not surprisingly, the HorizonPoll survey found that...
Budget forecasts unrealistic, households feel worse off

22 May 11 – The economic growth forecasts which underpin this week’s Budget are seen as unrealistic by 49% of New Zealanders. The first nationwide post-Budget HorizonPoll of 1,154 people, conducted between 11.5am Friday May 20 and 6.30am Saturday May 21 (maximum...
Some viewed less favourably over quake response

28 Sep 10 – People in Canterbury have rated the performance of people and orgaisations during the earthqaukes disaster. Emergency services received high praise for their efforts, with 94 per cent rating the Fire Service response as very good or excellent, The Press newspaper reports...