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AIG Australia insulated from US woes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... and taxpayers," they said. Regardless of the bail-out however, AIG in Australia is a separate entity with separate prudential structures that are fully funded. It reports to the regulator, APRA, as an independent entity. "The insurance policies written ...

MetLife appoints head of insto

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... Insurance Limited appointed Richard Anderson as head of institutional business. Anderson, currently with Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), will join MetLife in October and be responsible for building on the 2007 and 2008 growth and client ...

SMSFs maintain investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... stocks, the report found. In fact, 61 per cent intend to invest in blue chip shares in the next 12 months. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) found SMSF assets grew $29 billion or 11 per cent to $286 billion in the year to March. The ...

Protect super savings: PwC survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... markets, while providing appropriate exposure during upward trends. "Many [investment managers] believe the current prudential regulatory framework limits the ability to offer life time dependent guarantee products in Australia. The industry and the ...

AXA APH appoints Asia Life CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
AXA Asia Pacific Holding appointed former Prudential Corporation Asia employee, Michael Bishop to regional chief executive AXA Asia Life. Prior to this appointment, Bishop worked as managing director at the Prudential Corporation Asia across the life ...

APRA to review super fund stats

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... the public can make more informed choices about who should manage their retirement savings. Every three months, the prudential regulator publishes a quarterly superannuation performance report that shows how much money super funds have accumulated over ...

Reserves okay and can be raised by fees: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... daily unit pricing as a de facto industry standard. Chapman's comments highlight that fund trustee must however make prudential decisions based on fund specific factors.

Slash fees with national default fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... contributions that could operate at fee levels as low as 10 basis points. Wilson Sy, a researcher at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, in a paper he presented to last week's Australian Colloqium of Superannuation Researchers titled " Toward ...

Retail super weigh in on transparency debate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... conditions. On Wednesday, Industry Super Network (ISN) executive manager, David Whiteley called for the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) to publish a performance table which allowed investors to compare their fund against another. Whiteley ...

Super fund reporting should be standardised: ISN

... the volatility of the stockmarket in the past year, ISN executive manager David Whiteley called for the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) to publish a results "league table" that investors could refer to when comparing their fund against ...