AUSTRALIAN PRUDENTIAL REGULATION AUTHORITY

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Financial planning

The costs of breach reporting to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission exceed the benefits that accrue t...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning appears to have paid a price for the enforceable undertaking it entered into with ASIC in July, with a reduction in net cashflows over the period....

Superannuation

The Federal Government is moving to ensure that SMSFs can continue to invest in instalment warrants despite an adverse regulatory interpretation by both the ATO and APRA....

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has signalled that it is continuing to investigate the actions of individuals involved in a transaction undertaken by Zuric...

Financial planning

The chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, John Laker, has argued that recent efforts to harmonise arrangements with the other financial services reg...

Financial planning

In an effort to help financial institutions plan for a potential pandemic, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has released an information paper and prudential...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has issued new prudential standards governing the issue of outsourcing that are applicable to life insurance companies, aut...

Life/Risk

APRA has released for consultation a package of draft prudential standards and guidance for the life insurance industry....

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has amended its general insurance prudential framework to be consistent with the International Financial Reporting Standard...

Financial planning

DST International has introduced a new feature to its HiPortfolio/3 Investment Accounting Solution to help financial services institutions more easily and accurately mana...

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Financial planning

One of Australia’s largest industry superannuation funds, Equipsuper, has argued that the Government should amend the sole purpose test applying to superannuation fund tr...

Financial planning

Corporate superannuation has emerged as a stand-out performer for AMP in its half-year results with the big financial services house announcing a 220 per cent increase in...

Financial planning

The chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, John Laker, has revealed that as many as 30 per cent of the financial institutions supervised by APRA have...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has joined with its British counterpart, the Financial Services Authority, in accepting enforceable undertakings from forme...

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