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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
... per cent of US GDP coming from consumer demand the seriousness of the situation can be appreciated. The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority has foreshadowed further analysis of the credit quality of local banks following the continued problems ...

Super rules will always change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
... industry just has to accept this, said Ramani Venkatramani, general manager for specialised institutions at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). "Most organisations complaining about change are the ones who are asking us to change things," ...

Asia-Pac property fund flush with cash at start-up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
PRUPIM, part of the Prudential group, has teamed up with global property giant LaSalle Investment Management to form an open-ended pan Asia-Pacific fund that the joint venture team says is the first for the region. PRUPIM is the property investment ...

Regulators discuss streamlining some supervision operations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
Ten years after the Wallis Financial System Inquiry and eight years after the creation of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the bodies are in discussions about how ...

Macq making progress on restructure

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... company structure. Macquarie chief executive Allan Moss said the bank was encouraged by feedback from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, whose approval it needs. Macquarie is proposing to have a bank and a non-bank group operating under ...

BankWest moves up the rankings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... will end 2006 as the seventh largest retail deposits bank in the country overtaking Suncorp, according to Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) figures. David Rose, head of marketing and products, said the jump up the ladder, the first change ...

Stringent orders for winding up of Sovereign fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... and Investments Commission (ASIC) application for an independent liquidator to be appointed to wind up the Sovereign Prudential Fund. Sovereign Capital, the responsible entity of the Sovereign Prudential Fund, brought an urgent application before the ...

PE investments - trustees must understand the risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
... is pushing super funds into alternatives strategies that are badly understood by some trustees, said the Australian Prudential and Regulation Commission (APRA). Ross Jones, APRA deputy chairman told the recent conference of the Australian Super Funds ...

Borat movie and bank credit demand push Kazakhstan centre stage

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2006
... Kazakhstan as the country is also experiencing rapid credit growth. But in a special report, Kazakhstani Banking System and Prudential Regulations: The Risks of Growth, Fitch Ratings said increasing reliance on foreign funding to fund this growth could ...

Report your breach online: APRA

... excuse that "it's in the mail" or that the "line was engaged" when reporting a license breach after the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) launched an online 'Superannuation Breach Notification' today. The superannuation watchdog said ...