AUSTRALIAN PRUDENTIAL REGULATION AUTHORITY

Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has predicted a backlash from super funds in the event it publicly names superannuation funds it deems to be underperformer...

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Policy & Regulation

The major financial services regulators need to be comprehensively audited to ensure they are actually delivering value for money in the work that they do reflecting the ...

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Financial planning

Disability income insurance products and the way they have been designed do not work well for prolonged periods of disability or chronic conditions, according to the anal...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has signalled its intention to emulate the Australian Securities and Investments Commission by more frequently publishing t...

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Life/Risk

The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority life insurance data has revealed a negative picture of profitability being badly undermined by disability products....

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Superannuation

NSW Liberal Senator, Andrew Bragg has signalled the prospect of a crack-down on superannuation activists who seek to use member funds to exact influence on listed compani...

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Policy & Regulation

Allianz Australia has been hit by a $250 million additional capital requirement by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has confirmed that a number of superannuation funds are facing the possibility of legal action as early as next month on th...

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Outsider

It is possibly a measure of Outsider’s recent bout of insomnia (perhaps the Ashes is being played in mother England) that he found himself reading the so-called ‘Promonto...

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Policy & Regulation

APRA has fined the bank and two of its entities $1.5 million....

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Policy & Regulation

National Australia Bank has again found itself the subject of adverse media following the publication of leaked audit documents relating to its risk governance standards....

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Policy & Regulation

A critical Government-commissioned review of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority appears likely to see it adopting a more overtly forceful approach based on st...

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Superannuation

Confusion reigns among self-managed super fund trustees, members and administrators about the upcoming SuperStream changes at the end of November, 2019. ...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s decision to impose new licensing conditions on AMP’s superannuation businesses could not have come at a worse time, with ...

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Financial planning

The weakening in the Australian economy has been triggered by a protracted downturn in the housing market, according to Fitch Ratings....

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My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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