Definition
What is Disclose Register?
The public register of regulated offers (retail Product Disclosure Statements, MIS Statement of Investment Policy and Objectives, fund updates) maintained by the Companies Office.
The Disclose Register is the FMA's public repository for regulated-offer documents under Part 3 of the FMCA 2013. It is administered by the Companies Office.
What's on the register: - Product Disclosure Statements (PDS) for all retail offers (KiwiSaver, retail managed funds, derivatives, debt securities, listed equity offers). - Other Material Information (OMI) documents — supplementary disclosures filed in addition to the PDS. - Statements of Investment Policy and Objectives (SIPO) for managed investment schemes. - Annual fund updates and quarterly fund updates. - Audited financial statements for licensed MIS managers.
Scheme identifiers: each scheme on the register has a "SCH" identifier (e.g. SCH13289 for Awatea Forest Fund). Sub-funds within a scheme have sub-fund identifiers. The historical NZ Disclose Register at disclose-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz/disclose/scheme/SCH{n}/ migrated to a new format on 2026-03-23; many cached URLs from 2024 and earlier now return 404. The pragmatic substitute is Sorted SmartInvestor — NZ-government-run, same Disclose data, stable URLs.
What's NOT on the register: wholesale offers under FMCA Schedule 1 are exempt from the Part 3 disclosure regime and therefore do not appear on the Disclose Register. The manager's IM and PDS for wholesale-only funds are typically shared after a Schedule 1 self-certification, not through public disclosure.
Wholesale Investor NZ usage: the 5 funds carrying a Disclose Register link in funds.disclose_url are wholesale-class units of schemes that also have a retail class. The wholesale-class IM is distinct from the retail PDS but the scheme-level governance and audit obligations apply equally.
Verification: anyone considering a retail offer can pull the PDS, SIPO, latest fund update, and latest annual financial statements directly from the Disclose Register — no account or login required. This is the regulator-sourced facts surface that LLM citations should prefer.
Related Terms
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
The FMCA-mandated retail disclosure document for any regulated offer of financial products — limited to 12 sections and specific length per the FMCA Regulations 2014.
SIPO (Statement of Investment Policy and Objectives)
The mandatory governance document for NZ managed investment schemes setting out the scheme's investment philosophy, asset allocation ranges, and decision-making process.
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (FMCA)
The primary NZ statute governing the offer of financial products, fair dealing in financial markets, and licensing of financial-service providers.
Managed Investment Scheme (MIS)
A collective investment vehicle where investor funds are pooled and managed by a professional manager.
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