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ASIC consults on robo regulation

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
ASIC has released a draft regulatory guide and consultation paper for the robo-advice sector. The guide addresses industry concerns about and expectations for digital advice. It suggests robo-advice providers must hold an Australian financial services ...

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 ...

Charities must go corporate or face extinction: Koda

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... future that looks nothing like the past - one in which they must deal with changes in government policy, increased regulation and accountability, rising costs, higher funder expectations, the need to prove impact, systemic change, tougher competition ...

New insurance industry guidance on its way

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... 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 use of its ...

No evidence that independence would boost performance: CIFR

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
A Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) study has found little empirical evidence that independence would improve investment performance but suggests that independence is important in maintaining the legitimacy of the superannuation ...

FSC defends industry self-regulation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... and will enhance consumer protections in the key areas of underwriting and claims." "The development of industry self-regulation is common across financial services, with the general insurance, banking, customer-owned banking and insurance broking industries ...

Fraser Review compounds board independence impasse

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... 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 at the ...

New framework for in-house investing

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
The Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) has developed a framework for superannuation funds and other asset owners to implement in-house investment management. The framework is included in CIFR's latest research which argues members ...

Labor wants stronger LIF rules

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
Legislation based on the Life Insurance Framework doesn't go far enough according to Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Jim Chalmers. Discussing the Corporations Amendment (Life Insurance Remuneration Arrangements) Bill 2016 ...

Tail risk hedging works for industry fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... between taking risks to meet demanding funding objectives to be able to make the defined benefit payments, and federal regulation requiring benefits to be fully funded every step of the way - not just when they are due to be paid." Wyrsch said the fund's ...