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  2. 23 April 2024

    Supervisors

    Supervisors are appointed to look after investors' interests for some types of financial products and the interests of residents of retirement villages. Supervisors covered by the Financial Markets Supervisors Act 2011 (the FMS Act) are those who supervise debt securities; Registered schemes, including KiwiSaver schemes, specified managed funds and superannuation schemes, and retirement villages.View more about licensing and registration and the obligations of Supervisors in New Zealand on this page.
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    Compliance, Obligations, Licensing & registration, Roles, Business, Managed investment schemes, Supervisor
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  3. 4 February 2020

    KiwiSaver projections

    We can help you understand how your KiwiSaver savings projection might calculated. From April 2020, your personal annual KiwiSaver statement will show you what your KiwiSaver savings may be worth at age 65.
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    Investing, KiwiSaver & Superannuation, Consumer
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  5. 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.
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    Media release, Cases, News & Insights, Enforcement
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  6. 21 August 2015

    Guilty pleas entered in OPI Pacific Finance case

    Two former directors of OPI Pacific Finance, Mark Lawrence Lacy and Jason Robert Duncan Maywald, have pleaded guilty to two charges under the Securities Act 1978 in a prosecution commenced by the FMA in 2013. Read more.
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    Media release, Cases, News & Insights, Enforcement
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  7. 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.
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  8. 28 February 2024

    Auditors

    Auditor regulation and oversight helps to ensure the businesses we regulate (known as FMC reporting entities) have access to competent auditors, and these audits (known as FMC audits) are of a high standard. This page explains who needs to comply with the FMA, licensing and registration requirements, costs, levies and waivers, obligations, along with a number of important guidance documents and reports that are relevant to Auditors in New Zealand.
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    Auditors, Obligations, Licensing & registration, Roles, Directors, Business
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  10. 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.
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  11. 7 June 2024

    Financial Advice Provider (FAP)

    A financial advice provider (FAP) is an individual or entity (e.g. a company) that provides a "financial advice service". Find out more about licensing, registration, costs and ongoing obligations as well as how to comply with the new Code of Professional Conduct for financial advice services including competence, knowledge and skill requirements as well as requirements for ethical behaviour, conduct and client care.
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    New Financial Advice regime, Compliance, Financial Advice Provider, Obligations, Licensing & registration, Roles, Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act (FSLAA), Business
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  12. 5 April 2024

    Authorised body under a financial advice provider licence

    An authorised body is an entity (eg company or partnership) named on a Financial Advice Provider licence. A licensed FAP must agree to an authorised body operating under its licence. The authorised body must be named on the financial advice provider’s transitional licence application, and the licensed FAP will be required to provide information about the authorised body when it applies for its licence.
    Individuals cannot be authorised bodies under a FAP licence and individual financial advice provider licence holders cannot engage authorised bodies under their licences.
    Find out more about registration, costs, ongoing obligations, duties, standard consitions, general reporting conditions, code of professional conduct, competency safe harbour, and liability and enforcement on this page.
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    Compliance, New Financial Advice regime, Authorised body under a FAP, Obligations, Licensing & registration, Roles, Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act (FSLAA), Business
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  13. 20 October 2022

    Wolfbrook Capital Limited

    The FMA has issued a formal warning to Wolfbrook Capital Limited following concerns that they may have failed to give disclosures to investors as required by Part 3 of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 because it relied on the wholesale investor exclusion in circumstances where they were not entitled to. This is because some eligible investor certificates were incomplete.
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    Offer disclosure for equity and debt offers, Wholesale investing, Roles, Ways to invest, Investing, Formal warning, Powers, Business, Consumer, Enforcement
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  14. 11 April 2024

    Financial adviser

    To use the term Financial Adviser from the start of the new financial advice regime, you must be registered on the Financial Service Providers Register (FSPR) and engaged by a licensed financial advice provider (FAP) (or authorised body).　
    Find out more about licensing, your ongoing obligations and duties and complying with the new Code of Professional Conduct; liabilities and enforcement and frequently asked questions on this page.
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    New Financial Advice regime, Compliance, Financial Adviser, FSPR, Obligations, Licensing & registration, Roles, Business
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  15. 23 October 2020

    Understanding sharemarket jargon

    FMA article about common terms you might come across when you invest in shares.
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    Shares, Ways to invest, Investing, Article, Consumer, News & Insights
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