2022-05-17
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand issued this draft document to outline the operating model and exemption conditions for AMP Life Limited and Resolution Life New Zealand Limited. The structure establishes a corporate framework ensuring capital and assets remain in New Zealand under local management to secure equity for policyholders. Key governance mechanisms include a local trustee, a Policyholder Advisory Committee, and an Independent Actuary to provide oversight and advice regarding New Zealand policyholder interests.
Operating model: AMP Life Limited, Resolution Life New Zealand Limited The purpose of the model is to achieve a corporate structure that results in: capital and assets held in New Zealand, under the management of relevant officers in New Zealand, who have appropriate influence and authority in respect of the New Zealand operations, to ensure the purpose of securing equity across all policyholders. In the graphic below, Australian entities are shown in red and New Zealand entities in teal. “NZPAC” is the New Zealand Policyholder Advisory Committee. “Par” refers to assets backing participating policies and “Non-Par” refers to asset backing other policies. The Global Sharing Pool is unallocated surplus that has arisen from various sources over the years. Resolution Life NOHC Pty. Ltd. Resolution Life New Zealand Ltd. Resolution Life Services NZ Limited ("NZServCo") Resolution Life Australia Pty. Ltd. AMP Financial Services Holdings Ltd. AMP Life Ltd. Resolution Life Services Australia Pty. Ltd. ("AUServCo") Statutory Fund 1 Global Sharing Pool NZ Australia Par Par Non-Par Non-Par Other Assets AMP Life NZTrust Fund Other Funds Reinsurance Investment NZPAC Independent Actuary
2 Key elements of the structure are:
3 NZPAC may not have sufficent information from independent sources from which to effectively discharge its obligations in respect of New Zealand policyholders. Accordingly, it is the role of the Independent Actuary to review matters relevant to the interests of New Zealand policyholders, and to ensure that NZPAC is informed of them. The scope of advice is set out in a condition to AMP Life’s exemption from Part 2, subpart 3 of the Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010. It is also a requirement that the advice of the Independent Actuary is provided to the AMP Life Limited Board. 5. Conditions of licence, conditions of exemption The Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010 permits the Reserve Bank to impose conditions of licence on licensed insurers. It also provides that exemptions be subject to conditions that the Reserve Bank sees fit. To support the effective operation of the model, the Reserve Bank has imposed a number of conditions of licence on RLNZ, and AMP Life Limited. In addition, it has applied conditions to AMP Life Limited’s exemptions under section 59 and section 119. The Reserve Bank does not publish conditions of licence. However, a copy of the conditions to AMP Life Limited’s exemptions under section 59 and section 119 can be found on the Reserve Bank’s website.