Media releases – 2016

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1. 30 November 2015

   FMA reports on audit quality standards

   FMA issued Audit Quality Annual Review for the year 1 July 2014 - 30 June 2015
2. 17 November 2015

   FMA issues sales and advice monitoring report

   FMA published its first monitoring report on practices in sales and advice within New Zealand’s financial services sector.
3. 5 November 2015

   FMA confirms Paul Gregory in the role of director of external communications and investor resources

   Mr Gregory will be joining the FMA’s executive committee from the NZ Super Fund where he has been since March 2009, firstly as head of communications before shifting to the investments team.
4. 27 October 2015

   SPG and SPGI director Andrew Robinson sentenced

   Former company director (SPG and SPGI) and financial adviser, Andrew Hrothgar Robinson, has been sentenced in the Auckland High Court. Read more.
5. 16 October 2015

   FMA confirms new organisation structure and appointments to leadership team

   The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has announced a revised organisational structure and key appointments for its executive committee.
6. 9 October 2015

   Second SPGI director pleads guilty to FMA charges

   Company director, Mark Andrew Turnock, has pleaded guilty to a charge brought by the FMA, relating to his involvement as director of SPGI. Read more.
7. 5 October 2015

   FMA 2015 KiwiSaver report shows investment returns and withdrawals reach all-time highs

   The Financial Markets Authority’s (FMA) latest report into KiwiSaver activity shows funds flowing into KiwiSaver at an all-time high during the 12 months to 31 March 2015. Investment returns were the biggest component of positive fund flows while the level of withdrawals also increased to the largest level since KiwiSaver began.
8. 2 October 2015

   The FMA publishes first annual report under the new regulatory regime

   The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) chief executive Rob Everett has told a trans-Tasman audience that it will be four to five years before New Zealand sees the full economic and business benefits of the new financial services regulatory regime.
9. 30 September 2015

   SPG and SPGI director pleads guilty to FMA charges

   Former company director and financial adviser, Andrew Hrothgar Robinson, has today pleaded guilty to charges brought by FMA, relating to his involvement as director of Strategic Planning Group Limited (SPG) and SPG Investment Company No.1 Limited (SPGI).
10. 25 September 2015

    Fourth and final director sentenced in OPI Pacific Finance case

    A former director of OPI Pacific Finance, David Mark Anderson, has been sentenced in the Auckland High Court for misleading investors. Read more.
11. 23 September 2015

    Third director sentenced in OPI Pacific Finance case

    A former director of OPI Pacific Finance Limited, Craig Robert White, has been sentenced in the Auckland High Court. Read more.
12. 18 September 2015

    Third guilty plea entered in OPI Pacific Finance case

    A former director of OPI Pacific Finance, Craig Robert White, has pleaded guilty to misleading investors in a prosecution taken by the FMA. Read more.
13. 18 September 2015

    Sentences delivered in OPI Pacific Finance case

    Two former directors of OPI Pacific Finance Limited, Mark Lawrence Lacy and Jason Robert Duncan Maywald, have been sentenced in the Auckland High Court. Read more.
14. 8 September 2015

    FMA chief executive looks forward, to long-term benefits of new regulation

    The full range and depth of economic and business benefits would come following a sustained period of adaptation by the FMA, firms, professionals, and investors, lasting up to five years.
15. 1 September 2015

    KiwiSaver and beyond – turning a lump sum into a smooth income

    A survey of New Zealanders approaching retirement has found one in four people are unsure of how to manage the money in their KiwiSaver funds when they reach 65.