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Financial Sector Advisory Council back in action

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... performance of the financial system regulators: the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC); the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA); and the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The Council will ...

Government acts on income streams review

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
... products should continue to be prohibited. It also says Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSFs) and small Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) funds should not be eligible to offer products in the new category.

Drop in regulator staff numbers under coalition

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... 2015-16. Australia Tax Office staff numbers have fallen from 22,022 to 18,482 - or 16.1% - in the same period. Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) staff numbers have also fallen 3.1% to 590 since 2013-14. The independent think tank said ...

APRA releases report on Trio investigation

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
The Australian Prudential Authority (APRA) has released its report on its investigation into the failure of Trio Capital Limited (Trio) and loss of up to $150m. The investigation resulted in the removal of 13 former Trio directors from the superannuation ...

Regulators defended in calls for Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... Sydney yesterday, Turnbull said both the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) had powers equal to a Royal Commission, and more in some circumstances. "What Mr Shorten is really ...

Super fund outflow ratios cause for concern

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... issue that may impact their future viability. Speaking at the Banking and Wealth Summit in Sydney yesterday, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) deputy chairman Helen Rowell described the issue as "critical" and "not getting the attention ...

Equip appoints new board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... delay in legislation enabling the appointment of independent directors required the fund to apply to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) for a variation of its licence so that it could appoint two independents. "As APRA has not yet ...

Super governance at top of APRA agenda

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has highlighted three superannuation governance issues it will prioritise in its regulatory agenda for 2016. The first of these issues is what the regulator called "the robustness of strategic and business ...

New insurance industry guidance on its way

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... between the IFF and FSC has been looked at trying to harmonise their data dictionaries to better meet the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA) reporting standards. Cox said the FSC's data dictionary was mainly practitioner facing and for ...

Fraser Review compounds board independence impasse

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... stand up into the future," Medd says. She adds matters of improved governance have been in the sights of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) for a number of years and "this review focused on the not for profit sector will likely contribute ...