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Roadmap to life insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
The future of life insurance rests with advisers, good reforms and consumer education according to three key insurance figures speaking at the Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference today. In the first session for the day in Sydney, Geoff ...

Banks loss is super fund gain: IFM

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
Top returns in infrastructure debt are driving superannuation growth opportunities as banks withdraw funding to the sector, an industry leader has said. Brett Himbury, chief executive of Industry Fund Management (IFM), said superannuation funds were ...

SMSFs avg balances hit $1m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
New research from Rainmaker into self-managed super funds confirms that much of what we think we know about the sector is still driven by myths. An analysis the researcher conducted into SMSF figures available from the Australian Taxation Office and ...

Super assets reach $1.32tr

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Total superannuation assets grew by 7.7 per cent last year to reach $1.32 trillion, with self-managed super funds accounting for the largest slice of the pie, APRA figures show. Prudential regulator APRA today released its quarterly superannuation performance ...

New rules on bank liquidity clarified

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has clarified its definition of liquid assets that the banking industry must hold from 2015. In the wake of the global financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) ...

APRA releases 2010 fund level returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
APRA has released its 2010 fund level data league tables, showing that measured by the controversial 'whole of fund' metric that Australia's top funds are the corporate funds Goldman Sachs, CommBank Officers and Worsely Alumina. Sitting in fourth, fifth ...

PAS taps board diversity

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
Professional Associations Super practices what it preaches on gender diversity by electing Katherine Kasper as member representative director to its trustee board. PAS, with a membership base of 60 per cent female, agrees with the latest findings from ...

Related party asset exposures pose conflict: report

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
In its Annual Superannuation Bulletin this year, APRA reports on the most significant asset exposures of super funds, with some obvious, and not so obvious, findings on where potential conflicts of interest could arise. According to the report, retail ...

APRA report sparks fresh debate on boardroom diversity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
Three leading lights in superannuation share their views on the regulator's report released yesterday that shows the glaring absence of women on trustee boards. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released findings that found licensed ...

MTAA halts new money to 'illiquid' option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
The $5.7 billion MTAA Super Fund is closing its Target Return Option to new money, as part of the fund's plan to align its liquidity policy with best practice guidelines and proposed APRA reforms. MTAA Super said that it will no longer accept members' ...