AUSTRALIAN PRUDENTIAL REGULATION AUTHORITY

Superannuation

E*Trade Australia has formed an alliance with SuperEasy to offer investors a do-it-yourself superannuation fund online....

Financial planning

Insurance and superannuation industry watchdog, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), can not adequately oversee government endorsed super funds, accordi...

Financial planning

Corporate watchdog David Knott has stood down from his post on the board of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in the wake of the collapse of HIH Insur...

Financial planning

The Australian Consumers’ Association and the Australian Shareholders’ Association are calling for an inquiry into what they call the failure of the Australian Prudential...

Financial planning

The focus on corporate superannuation is long running and is centred mainly on the complexities involved with branching into it. But as Nicole Szollos discovers it is now...

Financial planning

Former Commonwealth Funds Management chief and Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) deputy chairman David Knott is to take the top job at the investment...

Superannuation

The growth in self managed superannuation has grown in recent months as the result of changes in legislation. Ben Smythe investigates what advisers should be telling clie...

Life/Risk

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has stated it will take a closer look at the area of disability insurance after continued concern by the regulator o...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will appoint a statutory approved trustees (SAT) to thousands of DIY super funds as new regulations come into force....

Financial planning

Advisers may be opening themselves up to possible litigation by failing to advise clients with DIY superannuation funds on the options available to them under SLAB 3 legi...

Financial planning

The Australian Investment and Securities Commission (ASIC) has begun court proceedings after an investigation into losses incurred by the Employees Produc-tivity Award Su...

Financial planning

The Australian Investment and Securities Commission (ASIC) has begun court proceedings after an investigation into losses incurred by the Employees Produc-tivity Award Su...

Financial planning

Strong growth by self managed super funds and industry funds helped boost Australian superan-nuation assets by 16.6 per cent in 1999, according to the latest Australian P...

Financial planning

Strong growth by self managed super funds and industry funds helped boost Australian superan-nuation assets by 16.6 per cent in 1999, according to the latest Australian P...

Financial planning

A new superannuation industry group to represent smaller superannuation funds has been officially launched....

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