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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has told superannuation funds they need to more clearly explain where and why they are spending members’ money, particularl...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission appears to have been successful in persuading a key Parliamentary Committee of its view on life/risk advice and lapse...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has signalled its caution with respect to Financial Services Council lobbying for insurers to be allowed to mortgage the as...

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People & Products

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has appointed highly experienced executive, Therese McCarthy-Hockey to the newly-created role of Executive General Manager,...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has revealed ‘preliminary analysis’ confirming that super funds with more independent directors generate better outcomes....

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has signalled its support for Government legislation that will deliver greater transparency about where industry funds are ...

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Financial planning

The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority life insurance industry data has portrayed an industry struggling to return to its better years of profitability....

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Policy & Regulation

Three senior legal academics will today tell a Parliamentary Committee that there exists a risk that the Bank Executive Accountability Regime will change the way in which...

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Life/Risk

The life insurance industry will be required to use uniform definitions following work by APRA and ASIC which found meaningful comparisons could not be made under current...

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Life/Risk

The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority analysis points to a life/risk industry still struggling to return to normal levels of profitability....

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has directly challenged the unquestioned appointment of union and employer nominees to superannuation fund boards....

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Superannuation

Super funds trustees need to use big data to provide concrete evidence that they understand their members’ needs, according to Milliman....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chairman, Wayne Byres has signalled the regulator is considering where else in the financial services industry the Bank Exe...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s probe into the Commonwealth Bank may be unprecedented but its outcome will fall far short of many...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has appointed the former chair of APRA and the ACCC to the special panel appointed to probe the Commonwealth Bank....

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