Distribution Network
Sovereign distribution network in New Zealand
17 New Zealand Financial Advice Providers list Sovereign on their public product panel, collectively employing 89+ registered financial advisers. Data current as of 2026-10-12.
How 9,152 advisers split for Sovereign
- 85 advisers (16 firms): Their firm's disclosure statement names Sovereign.
- 3,544 advisers (275 firms): Their firm's disclosure statement does not name Sovereign.
- 5,523 advisers (2,132 firms): We hold no product panel for their firm, so we can't say.
Product panels are disclosed by the firm (FAP), not the individual adviser, and are AI-extracted from each firm's Public Disclosure Statement. A firm whose disclosure does not name Sovereign may still arrange it, and the “can't say” group is firms whose disclosure we have not yet read. Counts cover individual advisers with a current FAP appointment on the FSPR.
FAPs distributing Sovereign
Sorted by adviser count. Click a FAP to see their full Public Disclosure Statement mirror.
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“We work with both main banks and second-tier lenders: - ANZ - Apricity - ASAP Finance - ASB - Avanti Finance - Bank of China - Basecorp Finance - Bluestone - BNZ - Clever Money - Cressida Capital - DBR - First Mortgage Trust - Funding Partners - Heartland Bank - Kiwi Bank - Libe…” — Mortgageme Financial Services Queenstown Lakes Limited's PDS dated 2026-05-18 · source
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“ANZ, Westpac, BNZ, ASB, ASAP Finance Limited, Avanti Finance, Cressida, DBR, First Mortgage Trust, Heartland Bank, Liberty Financial, NZCU, Pepper Money, RESIMAC, SBS Bank, SELECT, Southern Cross, Sovereign, The Cooperative Bank.” — Smartlife Financial Solutions Limited's PDS dated 2026-05-24 · source
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“ANZ - ASB - Cressida - Heartland Bank - Pepper Money - SELECT - The Co-operative Bank - Basecorp Finance - Westpac - ASAP Finance Limited - DBR - Liberty Financial - RESIMAC - Southern Cross - BOC - CFML - BNZ - Avanti Finance - First Mortgage Trust - NZCU - SBS Bank - Sovereign …” — Lift Capitals Limited's PDS dated 2026-05-18 · source
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“ANZ - ASB - BNZ - Kiwibank - Westpac - The Cooperative Bank - Heartland Bank - SBS Bank - TSB - Resimac - BER - ICBC - Cressida Capital - Sovereign - Liberty - Southern Cross Partners - Avanti Finance - Funding Partners - Prospa - XE - First Mortgage Trust - Basecorp Finance - AS…” — Native Polynesia Limited's PDS dated 2026-05-18 · source
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“AIA - Resolution Life - Asteron Life - PPS - Chubb - Fidelity Life - Partners Life” — Springhall Brokers Limited's PDS dated 2026-05-18 · source
What "distribution" means here
Under New Zealand's Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013, every Financial Advice Provider (FAP) must publish a Public Disclosure Statement under section 431 covering — among other things — the product providers they are appointed to distribute. FinanceAdvisersNZ mirrors these PDSes and parses the product-panel section into structured data so that comparison across FAPs becomes possible.
Being on a FAP's product panel does not mean the FAP exclusively recommends that provider — most FAPs distribute a small set of providers per product category and recommend within that set based on client suitability. It does mean the FAP has a commercial arrangement (commission, share of fees, or other consideration) with the provider that consumers should understand before engaging.
How to use this page
If you want a New Zealand financial adviser who can advise on Sovereign products, this list narrows your choice to 17 FAPs. Click through to a FAP's profile page to read their full disclosure statement, see fee structure, and view conflict-of-interest disclosures before making contact.
If you want the opposite question — "what products does my adviser's FAP distribute?" — go to your adviser's profile and read the Distribution Panel section.
Methodology, freshness, and limits
- Source: Mirror of FAP Public Disclosure Statements filed under FMC Act 2013 s431. We are not the publisher of any PDS — we mirror what each FAP has made public.
- Extraction: Product-provider names are extracted from PDS markdown by Claude (LLM-extracted, confidence tier C). For original wording, refer to each FAP's own publication via the FSPR register entry linked from their profile page.
- Coverage: FinanceAdvisersNZ currently has PDS data on file for ~51 of ~521 NZ FAPs (10%). Coverage grows as we ingest more PDSes. A FAP not listed here may still distribute Sovereign — we simply do not yet have their PDS in our corpus.
- Freshness: PDS data is re-checked quarterly. Each FAP profile page shows the version date of the PDS we have on file.
- Name normalisation: We do not currently normalise product-provider name variants (e.g. "ASB Bank" vs "ASB"). Future data-quality pass will collapse variants.
For NZ FAPs
If you are a Financial Advice Provider and we have incorrectly listed your firm here, or if your Public Disclosure Statement has been updated since our last ingest, please contact hello@financeadvisers.co.nz and we will refresh our mirror.
For data partners + B2B intelligence buyers
FinanceAdvisersNZ publishes the static state of NZ FAP product panels (this page) as free public data. For time-series intelligence — when FAPs add or remove a provider from their panel, market-share trend reports, cross-product panel queries, switching-event alerts, or bespoke market-entry research — contact hello@financeadvisers.co.nz.
Machine-readable data + related queries
- MCP query: Send
get_network_edges(edge_type='fap_to_product_provider', to_id='Sovereign')to /mcp via JSON-RPC 2.0 - FAP register check: Look up any listed FAP by FSP number at the Financial Service Providers Register (authoritative source)
- Other adviser networks: view all distribution networks
- Find an adviser by service + city: filterable directory
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