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APRA workload for boards does not rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
Meetings between the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and company boards are considered good value yet the workload placed on boards by the regulator does not rate highly. This is the view of more than 450 directors from deposit-taking ...

Industry giants ramp up adviser ethics training

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... to their day-to-day work. The program is overseen by a committee that includes representatives from the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA), the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) ...

Super board changes could cost funds $20m a year

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... Garcia said. He expressed concern that the definition of independence will ultimately be in the hands of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). "These changes place the regulator in the role of being a law maker and a judge as well as ...

Banks need to increase capital ratios: APRA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) believes the country's major banks will need to increase capital adequacy ratios by at least 200 basis points to be comfortably positioned in the top quartile of international peers. In response ...

Regulator clouding wealth management: PractiFI

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... in outsourcing wealth management via cloud technology or shared computing services - as identified by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) - have sparked an impassioned response. On Monday APRA released an information paper discussing ...

Class expands in the SMSF cloud

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... documentation suppliers, customer relationship management providers, and property services. Separately, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) recently released an information paper on its considerations around outsourcing shared computing ...

Super funds clash on board independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... warned about the reform's implications. Today the federal government introduced legislation proposing all Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) regulated super funds have a minimum of one-third independent directors on their trustee board ...

Employers given October SuperStream deadline

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... (ATO) will continue to help and educate employers through to October. In a joint letter from the ATO and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), RegistrableA Superannuation Entities (RSE) were told that after October 31, 2015, the ATO ...

Property bubble debate heats up

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... committee, and added that this was "certainly the case in higher priced areas in Melbourne." Fraser joined the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), which recently reviewed bank lending standards for property investors and last December ...

Risk inflows up despite tightening margins

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... Australia was the strongest performer in the group risk sub-market. This news follows recent comments by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), reported in Financial Standard, concerning the regulator's strategies to deal with risk and ...