APRA

Policy & Regulation

To be effective, the Financial Regulator Oversight Authority needs to be allowed to assess particular actions, or group of actions, to properly assess the two financial r...

Superannuation

Total assets under custody rose 8% to $4.06 trillion with an increasing portion accounting for offshore markets, according to the Australian Custodial Services Associatio...

Policy & Regulation

A coalition of consumer groups has pointed to key changes to advice and life insurance resulting from the Royal Commission and insisted on no loopholes and no carve-outs....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has foreshadowed the development of a climate risk practice guide for the financial services institutions it regulates....

Features

Mike Taylor writes that few, if any, of the major players are arguing that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority got it wrong with its major intervention with re...

Expert Analysis

Life insurers are under the spotlight of APRA over their handling and the sustainability of disability income insurance claims, writes Integrity Resolution’s Col Fullagar...

Policy & Regulation

Attracting talent to superannuation funds could become problematic under the Government’s move to extend the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to the superannuation in...

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority have welcomed the proposed reforms aimed at increasing the role of...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has recommended the two regulators must collaborate on information, documentation, and data requests and collection....

Financial planning

Superannuation funds have been ‘engaged’ by the regulators over payments to financial advisers and other third parties....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....

Superannuation

A major industry fund has told a Senate Committee that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s heatmaps got it wrong because of classification errors....

Superannuation

Underperforming superannuation funds were warned of their situation before the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority released its controversial heatmaps and they hav...

Superannuation

Barely a week after distribution its superannuation heatmaps, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is arguing that larger superannuation funds are more sustaina...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s announcement of an increase to Westpac’s capital charge and the commencement of an investigation into possible breaches o...

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