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APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... performance data on individual investment options. To refine its approaches the regulator has issued another discussion paper on how it should be done, how it should design its data forms and whether the expanded data collections will enable them to ...

APRA calls for IT risk submissions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... represents the intersection of IT risk and security risk which, in turn, are subsets of operational risk," the discussion paper said. Once APRA receives submissions the regulator expects to issue a final version of the PPG later in the year. Examples ...

Lift retirement age, lower long term benefits: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... those where private pensions play an important role in mandatory pension provision," said the IMF in a research discussion paper The State of Public Finances: Outlook and Medium-Term Policies After the 2008 Crisis. The tension point is that the GFC has ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... Australian Taxation Office to manage the tendering process for the national clearing house. This was followed by a discussion paper released in November. Central to government deliberations is that while outsourcing the national clearing house mandate ...

APRA fund level reporting proposals dangerous

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... Association has rejected the APRA proposals for how the regulator should disclose fund returns to consumers. In a discussion paper released yesterday, IFSA said, "APRA's plan to publish trust level ROA [return on assets] data is considered by the industry ...

IFSA backs govt tax proposal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... efficiencies." MLC also backed the Treasury department's proposal. "MLC welcomes Senator Nick Sherry's Treasury discussion paper on the Government's measure to provide an optional CGT roll-over for superannuation funds that merge with other complying ...

APRA to review exec pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... executives will have to repay bonuses if investment bets the firm has made do not work out. APRA will be releasing a discussion paper on executive remuneration principles in the second quarter of 2009.

Move for APRA fund level data gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... APRA to publish a complete list of super fund returns on its website is growing following their release of a discussion paper regarding how it might be done. The target date for the new publication is April next year. Despite the push for the new information ...

Clear focus to drive age pension reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... of the age pension is to reduce poverty or to replace income, argues the Institute of Actuaries (IA) in a new discussion paper. The paper, New Ideas for Age Pension Reform, outlines a series of policy and tactical options the IA said the government could ...

Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... per cent last year, reveals the latest analysis from Treasury. The figures are contained in a Treasury Roundup discussion paper by analysts Anthony Goldbloom and Andrew Craston titled "Australian household net worth" where they found household net worth ...