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Superannuation

Investment advisory Parametric has called out super funds over a lax approach to fixing negative perception problems....

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Superannuation

The Productivity Commission has been asked to consider why APRA-regulated funds do not allow their members to achieve the same tax outcomes as members of SMSFs....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has adopted a ‘taking action now’ mantra in dealing with the major banks....

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Superannuation

Underperforming superannuation funds have been put on notice by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to shape up or be forcibly shipped out of the superannuatio...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has sought clarity on how the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority would use increased information about monies expended by su...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has listed profitability challenges in the life insurance industry high on its list of priorities over the next four years....

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Financial planning

The Finance Sector Union has declared the APRA probe into the Commonwealth Bank as insufficient as the Treasurer, Scott Morrison, reveals close contact with CBA chair, C...

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has launched an independent prudential inquiry into governance and culture at the Commonwealth Bank....

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Editorial

The superannuation sector may be facing further consolidation in the wake of the further empowering of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Adam Gee writes....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

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Superannuation

Superannuation may have to more clearly justify their expenditure on advertising campaigns via related parties under governance changes being proposed by the Australian P...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has revealed what it asked and how the industry superannuation funds justified the money they spent on the latest ‘fox in t...

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People & Products

Lombard Risk has announced an Australia and New Zealand expansion on the back of new Australian Prudential Regulation Authority reporting requirements....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has granted the major banks some lee-way around the obligations to the Government’s new major banks levy....

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Editorial

The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...

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