Ann: GENERAL: NZX: NZX Full Year 2014 Metrics Materials

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GENERAL: NZX: NZX Full Year 2014 Metrics Materials

NZX Annual 2014 operating metrics show another positive year for capital
markets

NZX's full year 2014 metrics demonstrate New Zealand's capital markets
experienced another stellar year, with strong growth in listings and market
capitalisation.

It was an exceptional year for new listings, with a total of 19 entities
undertaking IPOs or compliance listings, contributing an additional $4.74
billion to New Zealand's capital markets. There was also significant growth
in debt listings, with new debt issuances up 755% on 2013.

While there was 9.8% growth in trade volumes over the year, the total value
traded dropped 17.2%.  Real time data terminals remained steady on 2013, with
a small increase in the number of retail terminal numbers.

Funds under management and units on issue saw significant increases of 40.4%
and 45.9% respectively, largely attributable to the launch of two new
Exchange Traded funds by NZX's Smartshares funds management business in
December 2014 - the Australian Property Trust and Australian Index Trust. NZX
also announced the purchase of leading New Zealand superannuation and passive
funds manager SuperLife, positioning NZX strongly in the growing retirement
savings market, and enabling the planned launch of additional ETFs during
2015.

NZX's Agri business recovered from the impact of the droughts that stagnated
growth in 2013, with Agri subscriptions up 14.9% and the volume of
advertising in print publications up 1.6% on 2013. During the third quarter
NZX Agri launched two online forecasting tools developed in conjunction with
Massey University, designed to provide better insights into New Zealand milk
production and farmgate milk prices.

NZX's Derivatives business continued to show strong growth with lots traded
up 174.9% on 2013 to 101,010. NZX diversified its derivative product offering
during the year with the launch of a Butter Futures Contract in the fourth
quarter and equity derivatives in in the third quarter.

NZX's Australian business Clear Grain Exchange traded 594,619 tonnes during
2014, slightly down on tonnes traded in 2013. Clear Grain Exchange also
diversified its product offering during the period with the launch of a
forward grain contract.

NZX Regulation Metrics
NZX also released its annual 2014 regulation metrics today. These show NZX
Regulation commenced 178 investigations of issuers and participants during
the year compared to 140 in 2013. Other key regulation statistics are
included in the full metrics documents.

For further information please contact:

Media:
Kate McLaughlin
Corporate Communications
M: 027 533 4529
T: 09 309 3654
E: [email protected]

Investors:
Bevan Miller
Chief Financial Officer
M: 021 276 7359
T: 04 498 2271
E: [email protected]
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