APRA
Life/Risk
Zurich Financial Services Australia has played down Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and Australian Securities and Investments Commission scrutiny of some histo...
Financial planning
Trustee group Australian Superannuation Nominees is closing its business due to “continuing regulatory intervention” by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and...
Financial planning
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has banned two Melbourne-based trustees from the industry after a number of serious Superannuation Industry Supervis...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) and the Australian Tax Office (ATO) will walk away from...
Funds management
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has permanently disqualified two former Harts Australasia executives from the industry for failing to demonstrate du...
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has given directions to AMP Life, while the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an ...
Financial planning
Small superannuation funds continue to grow quicker than other fund types after their total assets grew by $9.5 billion over the December quarter, according to the latest...
Funds management
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is seeking to gauge public and industry opinion regarding ‘fit and proper’ prudential standards for life insurance e...
Editorial
Promina Group, formerly Royal & SunAlliance, has reported solid performance in its first year as a listed and rebranded entity with each of its three business units contr...
Financial planning
Superannuation assets rose 3.2 per cent to reach just shy of $550 billion at the end of the September quarter 2003, according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Auth...
Financial planning
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a third former AM Corporation director in light of its investigation in...
Funds management
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has announced it will review the risk management practices of all authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) with...
Superannuation
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued a blunt message to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) warning the honeymoon period in its regulation of the sector ...
Financial planning
Australia’s 40 registered life insurers have increased the total assets held collectively by nearly three per cent to $181.5 billion but lost out heavily on new premium i...
Financial planning
Industry superannuation funds led the broader bounce back in superannuation assets under management for the June 2003 quarter, after posting an 8.5 per cent rise or $4.4 ...
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