APRA

Superannuation

Investment advisory Parametric has called out super funds over a lax approach to fixing negative perception problems....

Superannuation

The Productivity Commission has been asked to consider why APRA-regulated funds do not allow their members to achieve the same tax outcomes as members of SMSFs....

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has adopted a ‘taking action now’ mantra in dealing with the major banks....

Superannuation

Underperforming superannuation funds have been put on notice by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to shape up or be forcibly shipped out of the superannuatio...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has sought clarity on how the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority would use increased information about monies expended by su...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has listed profitability challenges in the life insurance industry high on its list of priorities over the next four years....

Financial planning

The Finance Sector Union has declared the APRA probe into the Commonwealth Bank as insufficient as the Treasurer, Scott Morrison, reveals close contact with CBA chair, C...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has launched an independent prudential inquiry into governance and culture at the Commonwealth Bank....

Editorial

The superannuation sector may be facing further consolidation in the wake of the further empowering of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Adam Gee writes....

Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

Superannuation

Superannuation may have to more clearly justify their expenditure on advertising campaigns via related parties under governance changes being proposed by the Australian P...

Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has revealed what it asked and how the industry superannuation funds justified the money they spent on the latest ‘fox in t...

People & Products

Lombard Risk has announced an Australia and New Zealand expansion on the back of new Australian Prudential Regulation Authority reporting requirements....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has granted the major banks some lee-way around the obligations to the Government’s new major banks levy....

Editorial

The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...

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