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Superannuation
A Royal Commission background paper has noted the ‘relatively high proportion’ of industry fund expenses not explained through publicly-available data....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has urged the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to make the claims-handling performance of the major life insurers public, ...
Superannuation
The SMSF Association has confirmed just how common it is for self-managed superannuation fund trustees to maintain low balances in Australian Prudential Regulation Author...
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has confirmed that removing the compulsion from insurance inside superannuation for those aged under 25 will have serious i...
Life/Risk
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has shown concern that poor disability income insurance, reporting that the performance and sustainability of DII products ...
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has warned superannuation funds to stop claiming non-cash investments such as mortgage-backed securities are equivalent to ...
Superannuation
A key Parliamentary Committee report has specifically cited the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority as suggesting not too much should be made of the perceived outp...
Features
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been the frequent subject of demands for greater scrutiny of the regulators themselves. As Hannah Wootton writes,...
Superannuation
Industry funds representative organisation, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, has told the Treasury that self-managed superannuation funds should be pu...
Superannuation
The prudential regulator has released a final package of measures to clarify and strengthen the role of the appointed actuary within general, life and private health insu...
People & Products
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority deputy chair, Helen Rowell, has received another five-year term in her role and will be joined by Treasury deputy secretary, Jo...
Financial planning
New data released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that consumers do better at cla...
Life/Risk
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has suggested there is scope for allowing life insurers to assist in getting workers back to work sooner....
Superannuation
Victims of Financial Fraud has alleged that the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority cannot fully protect the public’s superannuation savings, building on previous ...
Policy & Regulation
The financial services regulators have emerged as substantial Budget funding winners from the Royal Commission with financial services firms expected to foot much of the ...
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