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Policy & Regulation

Attracting talent to superannuation funds could become problematic under the Government’s move to extend the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to the superannuation in...

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority have welcomed the proposed reforms aimed at increasing the role of...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has recommended the two regulators must collaborate on information, documentation, and data requests and collection....

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Financial planning

Superannuation funds have been ‘engaged’ by the regulators over payments to financial advisers and other third parties....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....

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Superannuation

A major industry fund has told a Senate Committee that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s heatmaps got it wrong because of classification errors....

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Superannuation

Underperforming superannuation funds were warned of their situation before the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority released its controversial heatmaps and they hav...

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Superannuation

Barely a week after distribution its superannuation heatmaps, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is arguing that larger superannuation funds are more sustaina...

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s announcement of an increase to Westpac’s capital charge and the commencement of an investigation into possible breaches o...

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Financial planning

The authority has increased the bank’s capital requirement to $1 billion and will focus on directors and senior managers that breached the Banking Act in relation to the ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has named the major consultancies which assisted with its heat map development – Rice Warner, Deloitte and David Bell – but...

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Superannuation

The founder of one of Australia’s first dedicated superannuation fund research and ratings firms has suggested that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority should ...

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Superannuation

Trustees of the worst performing products have been contacted by the Australian Prudential and Regulation Authority to provide action plans on how they will address ident...

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Superannuation

Twenty under-performing superannuation funds are facing almost immediate heat-map pressure from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and a further 20 will find ...

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Superannuation

Superannuation fund heatmaps may be one of the most significant new challenges to confront superannuation fund boards, but the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ...

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