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Government urged to leave super taxation alone

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... delegates of the outperformance of the majority of funds versus funds regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) between 2008 and 2012 and said it was a sector of which stakeholders could be immensely proud. However, he added ...

Parametric grows investment team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... funds, corporate funds, industry and government super funds.A He also worked with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.A Most recently, Zhang worked with a boutique funds management firm which he co-founded via a management buyout.

Suncorp tight-lipped on CEO departure

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... that the group insurance industry has faced. The latest statistics released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) show that revenue and profits for the 12 months to June 2014 have remained flat for life insurance companies. However ...

Industry insurance report to focus on advice remuneration model

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... for the preliminary report of the FSC and the AFA inquiry, which is chaired by former Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) John Trowbridge. The final report "will put significant emphasis on remuneration structures," Fox said, although the ...

APRA-ABS super surveys to commence Jan 2016

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has written to super fund RSEs advising them that enhanced data reporting by super funds to facilitate the data needs of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will commence in January 2016. APRA ...

Super modern awards anti-competitive: FSC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... meanwhile, only account for 5% (83% of retail funds with MySuper products approved by The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) are excluded from the default modern award system). According to the study, industry funds owned by employer organisations ...

APRA relaxes 'select' option data rules

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has reacted to industry pressure and watered down the data reporting requirements for super funds regarding 'select' investment options. Select investment options are non-MySuper investment options. ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... question of whether MySuper was bringing down fees was answered in September when the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) published its first round of MySuper data. It showed how much every MySuper product charged a member with an account ...

Life company profits flat

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... flat for life insurance companies, according to the latest statistics released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). While most of the figures released in the latest statistics were old, of the new ones, Suncorp Life was the worst ...

Boost impact investing, says FSI

MARK SMITH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... impact investment funds. Specifically the report called for clearer guidance from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on the appropriateness of impact investment for superannuation trustees. Murray also wants the government to amend ...