Disclosure Statements

Wairarapa Homes Loans (2021) Limited T/A Home Loans Wairarapa holds a licence issued by the Financial Markets Authority to provide financial advice.  

The information below will help you decide if you want to seek our advice. We are required to make this information publicly available to meet our requirements with the Financial Markets Conduct Regulations 2014. 

Company Name: Wairarapa Home Loans (2021) Limited  

FSP Number: 1002771  

You can contact us at: 

Phone: 027 222 4027 or 027 308 8874 

Email: kath@hlw.co.nz or jackson@hlw.co.nz 

Address: 214 Chapel Street, Masterton 

Licensing information  

We operate as an Authorised Body under a Financial Advice Provider licence issued by the Financial Markets Authority in the name of NZ Financial Services Group Limited (NZFSG) (FSP286965).  

There are no conditions attached to this licence on the advice that may be given. 

Nature and scope of advice 

Home Loans Wairarapa advisers provide guidance on a wide range of mortgage and personal lending needs, including: 

• Mortgages and personal lending solutions 

• Assessing how much you can afford to borrow to purchase a property (within lender affordability guidelines) 

• Helping you choose the right lender and mortgage structure 

• Structuring your repayments to help you pay off your home loan sooner 

• Reviewing, restructuring, and refixing your existing lending 

We provide advice in relation to the following lending products: 

• Mortgages 

• Personal loans 

• Car Loans 

• Top ups 

• Fixed rate rollovers 

• Debt consolidation 

• Business loans 

• Reverse mortgages 

We provide advice in relation to products provided by the following companies: ANZ, ASB, ASAP Finance Limited, Avanti Finance, Basecorp Finance, BIZCAP, BNZ, CFML, Cressida Capital, DBR, Finbase, First Mortgage Trust, Funding Partners, General Finance, Heartland Bank, Kiwibank, Liberty Financial Limited, Midlands Funds Management, Pallas Capital, PROSPA, SBS Bank, Southern Cross, The Cooperative Bank, Unity, Westpac. 

Our Duties  

Wairarapa Home Loans (2021) Limited and anyone who gives financial advice on our behalf, have duties under the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013. These duties are to:  

• Meet the standards of competence, knowledge, and skill and the standards of ethical behaviour, conduct, and client care set out in the Code of Professional Conduct for Financial Advice Providers.  

• Give priority to your interests.  

• Exercise care, diligence, and skill.  

Fees and Expenses  

Generally, we won’t charge you any fees for the advice that we provide to you. This is possible because, if you act on the advice given, we usually receive commission from the applicable product provider on settlement of a mortgage. There are some exceptions to this general position which are explained below.  

We may charge you a one-off fee in the following situations:  

(a) No commission: If you request that we provide services in relation to a product or service and we do not receive a commission. Any such fee would be agreed and authorised by you in writing before we complete the services and would be based on an estimate of the time spent providing the advice.  

This may arise in the rare event that you request that we provide Services in relation to either a product that is offered by a provider that we do not hold an accreditation with, or a product that is outside our usual arrangements with our product providers.  

Should we charge you a fee, you will be invoiced and will be given 30 days to make payment.  

Commissions and other incentives  

If you proceed with a product because of financial advice given by your adviser, the adviser, adviser business, and/or the licensee usually receives commission on settlement of a loan. We may also receive a commission payment or referral fee for business referred to other businesses.  

The types of payments that may be received include:  

• Upfront commission (calculated as a percentage of the first year's premium (in the case of insurance products) or a percentage of the loan at drawdown (in the case of a loan).  

• Renewal or trail commission calculated as a percentage of the premium paid for each year the policy is in force (in the case of insurance products) or a percentage of the loan outstanding at the relevant time (in the case of a loan).  

• Fixed rate roll over fee (from some product providers if we assist in refixing your loan).  

• Referral fees.  

• Other incentives or rewards, for example gifts or tickets to events.  

Further information about the commissions and incentives that are relevant to the advice you may receive, including the maximum percentages used to calculate the commissions, will be given to you by your Financial Adviser.  

This commission is used to remunerate the financial adviser that provides the advice, and to pay the expenses associated with running our business including any rent, staff costs and IT resources. From this commission we also pay NZ Financial Services Group Limited for services they provide to us in connection with our authorisation under their licence from the Financial Markets Authority.  

Conflicts of Interest  

We may attend events hosted by industry associations, product providers, and NZFSG, at which product providers discuss and provide information about their products. We manage this potential conflict of interest by ensuring we follow an advice process that ensures we prioritise your interests and recommend products that are suitable for you regardless of the information received at such events.  

We take steps to ensure that the conflicts of interest, including receipt of commissions or other incentives, does not influence the advice we give to you and that our advisers prioritise your interests by recommending the best product for your purpose regardless of the type and amount of commission we or they may receive.  

We do this by:  

• Ensuring our advisers follow an advice process that ensures they understand your needs and goals and that their recommendations meet those needs and goals.  

• Ensuring our advisers receive regular training on how to manage conflicts of interest.  

• Providing you with a schedule showing commission amounts and types by product provider. This schedule is contained within each Financial Adviser’s personalised Disclosure Guide. A Financial Adviser will provide you with more information about commissions during the advice process.  

If there are any conflicts of interest apart from commission that could potentially influence the advice that we give, these will be shown in your Financial Adviser’s Disclosure Guide.