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abrdn's Jollie outlines next steps

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2023
... management industries. This starts with the continued consolidation of the superannuation sector. "There are approximately 145 APRA-regulated funds today and this is expected to contract significantly, down to somewhere between 10 and 50 funds in the ...

Institutions must raise the bar on cybersecurity resilience: APRA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2023
Insights from APRA expose a lack of compliance with cybersecurity obligations is leaving hundreds of institutions open to financial crime. The regulator plans to have assessed more than 300 banks, insurers and super trustees' compliance with CPS 234 ...

Frontier calls for better unlisted asset valuations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... robust growth in the superannuation sector, with an increased focus on unlisted assets. This trend has caught the attention of APRA, which is placing more emphasis on correct valuation practices. APRA has criticised the valuation processes for unlisted ...

More assets held in Choice over MySuper: APRA figures

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
... assets are held in Choice products than in MySuper options, according to quarterly superannuation industry statistics by APRA. As of March 31, Choice products held $1.09 trillion of the total member assets held in APRA-regulated funds ($2.1 trillion) ...

Cbus delivers strong returns, grapples property headwinds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2023
... rather than offshore, given that offshore property, particularly in the US, has been noticeably weaker. As of May 31, the APRA MySuper index for Australian listed property, the S&P/ASX 300 A-REIT, yielded a one-year return of 2.25%. In contrast, the ...

Trustees must do better on account consolidation: ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2023
... accounts, with the average payment expected to be about $650. The news prompted Super Consumers Australia to call on ASIC and APRA to do more to address the issue and be transparent about which funds are failing to look out for their members. That said ...

Rainmaker MySuper index outdoes S&P ASX 200

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2023
... -0.9%, achieving an outperformance margin of 1.9 percentage points. Meanwhile, group insurance premiums processed through APRA-regulated funds witnessed an uptick of 4% in 2021-22. Although this pushes the total premiums to $8.7 billion, it falls short ...

Small super funds admonish APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2023
In the most recent stakeholder survey conducted by APRA, small superannuation funds expressed disproportionally high discontent with the regulator. APRA observed that superannuation and trustee respondents gave distinctly lower ratings for almost all ...

Consultation opens on NALI reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023
... the non-arm's length income (NALI) regulations, which are set to affect self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) and small APRA-regulated funds (SAF). The Treasury Laws Amendment (Measures for Consultation) Bill 2023 seeks to refine the NALI provisions ...

Labor advances super performance test changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2023
... performance of platform TDPs will also be tested using gross of tax variables to reflect how these products operate and report to APRA. For the RAFE of non-platform TDPs, these will be tested against the median RAFE of other non-platform TDPs. An option ...