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APRA issues warning on group risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
Insurance regulator the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a warning that while the overall life insurance is in reasonable financial shape, sustained pressure on the group risk sector is becoming a strategic threat that insurers ...

Government scraps Labor's annuities reforms

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
The government will not proceed with Labor's plan to grant tax concessions to retirement income derived from deferred lifetime annuities (DLAs). Under Labor's proposed legislation announced as part of the 2013-14 budget, DLA earnings would have received ...

Advisers "hopeful" to hear FoFA changes before 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
The financial advice sector is hopeful that the government will make public the proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation before the end of the year. "It is a question of timing, but we are hopeful this can be solved before ...

One-stop-shop firms surge to gain scale against big instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
The number of partnerships and mergers between financial planning and accountancy firms is increasing as independent businesses brace to gain scale against the big institutionally-aligned groups. Industry concentration in the past years has strengthened ...

Shale gas revolution could be worldwide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
The shale gas revolution of North America is "the big deal" and could become a worldwide phenomenon, according to T Rowe Price portfolio specialist, global equities Kurt Umbarger. Umbarger said that the US was "really, truly on the road to becoming ...

SPAA defends status quo on SMSF regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... professionals." While the national and international trend in the financial services sector has been towards more and more regulation - particularly since the global financial crisis - Slattery insisted that the ATO was the ideal regulator for SMSFs. ...

QMV to release APRA reporting standards solution

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
Superannuation software developer and consultant QMV Super Solutions is set to release its own software solution to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) reporting standards, QMV chief executive Brad Goodall has said. The release of ...

APRA releases final SuperStream reporting standards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released the final version of its Reporting Standards SRS 711.0 for SuperStream Benchmarking Measures, relating to the rollover and contribution transactions of super funds. In a letter sent ...

How green are 'green funds'?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
Superannuation funds offering 'green' or 'sustainable' investment options may be misleading their members, with big polluters often topping the holdings lists. The top holding in AustralianSuper's Australian sustainable fund (managed by Perpetual) is ...

APRA to look into The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos has said the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will look into The New Daily on the grounds that it is a misuse of members' money. Speaking to Stuart Hocking on radio station 2UE, the Assistant Treasurer ...