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1. 1 October 2018

   KiwiSaver Report 2018

   The report details the principal matters transacted under the Act during the year ended 30 June 2018, and contains the sixth annual summary of the statistical returns, required to be lodged by KiwiSaver schemes under section 125 of the Act.

2. 1 September 2018

   Consumer Views of Financial Providers’ Conduct

   The FMA commissioned Buzz Channel to conduct research among New Zealanders to understand their experience with financial services providers.

3. 2 August 2018

   FMA Annual Corporate Plan 2018-19

   This Annual Corporate Plan sets out our activities for 2019/20 that will promote our strategic priorities, address regulatory risks and harms, and deliver sector outcomes. This plan should be read alongside our Strategic Risk Outlook, which provides our medium-term view of the most significant risks to and opportunities for promoting fair, efficient and transparent financial markets.

4. 2 July 2018

   QFE insurance providers’ replacement business practices

   This thematic review published in July 2018 focuses on QFE insurance providers’ replacement business practices and assesses how their policies and procedures are designed to ensure consumer protection at the point of policy replacement.

5. 28 June 2018

   NZX Obligations Review 2018

   Under the FMC Act, we are required to review at least annually how well a licensed market operator is meeting its obligations, and to publish a written report. Broadly, these relate to the areas of operation that are regulatory in nature. Publishing the report provides transparency into our oversight of NZX. This report was published in 2018.

6. 27 June 2018

   Improving financial statements monitoring report

   This monitoring report summarises the findings from our thematic review to determine the extent of improvements in the presentation of financial statements in a clear, concise and effective way, and sets out some suggestions for additional improvement.

7. 11 June 2018

   Key findings from the recent re-licensing of supervisors

   During 2016 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) undertook a review of the New Zealand financial sector. The Financial Stability Assessment Programme report recommended that the FMA ”continue to engage with Supervisors to ensure that they take a consistent approach to their supervision of Managed Investment Scheme (MIS) managers”

8. 7 June 2018

   Auditor regulation and oversight plan 2018-2021

   FMA has an obligation to publish an auditor regulation and oversight plan by 30 June each year, for a three year period, setting out our intentions for the regulation and oversight of auditors under the Act. This plan will help licensed auditors, registered audit firms and accredited bodies to understand how FMA will approach auditor regulation. It may also be of interest to issuers, investors and their advisers.

9. 1 May 2018

   Investor Confidence Report 2018

   The FMA commissioned Buzz Channel to measure New Zealanders’ attitudes towards and confidence in New Zealand’s financial markets. This is the 2019 survey report.

10. 10 April 2018

    Product disclosure statements: understanding investors’ information needs

    The purpose of this report is to help issuers and their advisers think about how they can make disclosure information more useful for investors. In the report we summarise feedback from investors about how they use disclosure information.

11. 22 March 2018

    Update on the FMA’s ongoing review of insurance replacement business and conflicted conduct

    This report follows on from our 2016 report, Replacing life insurance – who benefits? into replacement business activity within the adviser sales channel of the New Zealand life insurance market. It details our findings, the results of our inquiries to date and our expectations for advisers when they are providing advice on replacing insurance policies.

12. 13 March 2018

    Self-select retirement schemes – information for scheme managers

13. 12 December 2017

    CPA accredited body report 2017

    This report contains the findings of our monitoring assessment of CPA Australia for the period 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.

14. 12 December 2017

    NZICA accredited body report 2017

    This report contains the findings of our monitoring assessment of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA) for the period 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.

15. 3 October 2017

    KiwiSaver Annual Report 2017

    We are required to report each year on our main KiwiSaver activities. This report covers the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017, and contains a summary of the statistical returns required to be lodged by KiwiSaver schemes as at 31 March 2017.