AUSTRALIAN PRUDENTIAL REGULATION AUTHORITY

Financial planning

Key regulators have admitted that deliberate financial services fraud is hard to stop with or without regulatory changes....

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Superannuation

The number of SMSFs continues to grow, but the products available to them remain limited....

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Financial planning

The insurance and superannuation industries are relatively well placed to absorb further falls in the stock market and a blow-out in credit spreads, according to APRA cha...

Superannuation

The current rapid growth of the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector may present several challenges when a large number of trustees begin to reach an age where they eith...

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Editorial

The industry superannuation funds advertising campaign reached such a level in September and early October that it prompted the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and t...

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Editorial

It is now more than six years' since the industry superannuation funds launched their 'compare the pair' advertising campaign and, as Mike Taylor reports, it appears to h...

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Editorial

The sole purpose test has governed the operations of Australian superannuation funds for nearly two decades but, as Mike Taylor reports, it may require some reinterpretat...

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Superannuation

New governance standards for superannuation funds may still fall short of demands for greater transparency....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has dismissed ISN research disparaging retail superannuation funds as flawed and misleading....

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Superannuation

At the same time as ramping up its television advertising, the Industry Super Network has relied on its own chief economist to produce research questioning the returns de...

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Superannuation

Multiple superannuation fund directorships and default funds under modern awards seen as key omissions from Stronger Super....

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Financial planning

Former Trio director Keith Finkelde has entered into an enforceable undertaking with APRA that will see him barred from acting as the trustee of an APRA-regulated super e...

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Superannuation

The latest APRA data confirms the dominance of SMSFs in terms of assets held....

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has accepted enforceable undertakings from former Trio Capital directors Rex Philpott and David Andrews....

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has accepted enforceable undertakings from former Trio Capital directors Rex Philpott and David Andrews....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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