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Financial planning

Competition amongst Australia’s providers of retail funds management research is set to intensify, with two minor players renewing their push for a bigger slice of the bu...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has released a paper outlining the implementation for its policy on the portability of superannuation but has come under immediate criticism from t...

Financial planning

THE Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have launched an investigation into AM Corporation’s...

Financial planning

The Austrailan Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has replaced the trustee of a small superannuation fund based in Victoria after discovering the fund directors were ...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia’s (ASFA) chief executive Philippa Smith says the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) claims recently ...

Financial planning

THE Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will subject itself to its own regulatory gaze following the appointment of John Doble, who joins APRA next month to...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will use a new system to assess the more than 3000 financial institutions on its radar screens for regulation....

Editorial

Beacon Financial Services has lost up to $9 million since June 30 this year as a result of an expensive strategy to exit completely the underperforming derivative positio...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has recommended the early release of superannuation savings as a measure to encourage Australians to save for their retirement....

Life/Risk

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued Prudential Standard (PS) 3 aimed at prolonging the life of actuarial standard 6.01 (AS6.01) which require...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have successfu...

Financial planning

Australian Skandia is preparing to launch its own personal superannuation and allocated pension products after confirming today that it had managed to obtain Approved Tru...

Superannuation

What are the differences between self-managed super funds, small APRA funds and a master trust, and what type of clients suit them? KATE KACHOR reports on what to look ou...

Financial planning

The Government’s options paper for the reform of the regulatory environment surrounding superannuation was developed, according to the Minister for Financial Services Joe...

Superannuation

This week, Ramani (SG) Venkatramani, the general manager of APRA’s diversified institutions division, will fly to a conference of worldwide pensions industry representati...

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