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Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
2015 has already been a bumper year in financial services policy with super front and centre. Reforms to improve superannuation governance, competition and transparency appear to be the first cab off the rank. These reforms look likely to occur in a ...

Twin Peaks model optimal for financial stability

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
The "Twin Peaks" regulatory model is the ideal approach to ensure financial stability, according to research by the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR). The model, which pivots on regulation of financial services by independent entities ...

APRA-ABS super surveys to commence Jan 2016

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has written to super fund RSEs advising them that enhanced data reporting by super funds to facilitate the data needs of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will commence in January 2016. APRA  ...

APRA relaxes 'select' option data rules

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has reacted to industry pressure and watered down the data reporting requirements for super funds regarding 'select' investment options. Select investment options are non-MySuper investment options. ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

Life company profits flat

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
Revenue and profits for the 12 months to June 2014 have remained flat for life insurance companies, according to the latest statistics released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). While most of the figures released in the latest ...

Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
Investors in the Australian share market can expect sluggish growth at best in 2015, as the fall in commodity prices flows on to the wider Australian economy. Plummeting oil prices and the resulting sudden fall in the domestic share market in early ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Everything is political and especially so with the super-charged high stakes poker game on display in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) where the battle lines were quickly drawn between financial product providers versus consumers. And after listening ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after OPEC chose not to cut oil production levels. At 0822 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down 44 points at 5,294. In local economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank ...

APRA's IT infrastructure strains

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
In an extraordinary admission, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has written to super fund trustees telling them APRA's information technology and data management systems are struggling to deal with the new data reporting regime ...