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APRA urges super funds to examine board skills

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... by the regulator, by ignoring previous terms served on the board when renewing a director's tenure. APRA deputy chairman Helen Rowell said funds needed to do more than meet the minimum requirements of APRA's prudential framework in order to deliver fund ...

Government names AFCA board members

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... Authority (AFCA). The new members are Claire Mackay, Andrew Fairley, Erin Turner and Alan Wein. They join independent AFCA chair Helen Coonan in overseeing the Federal Government's new "one-stop-shop" dispute resolution body. Mackay is the principal ...

Super industry wants tougher insurance code

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... the latest signatories to meet the March deadline but the prudential regulator says there's more to do. APRA deputy chair Helen Rowell says the code's definitions for disability insurance need to be clarified and standardised; and the issue of multiple ...

No room for complacency: Rowell

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... as to how they set, assess, and work towards performance goals for their superannuation fund in 2018. APRA deputy chair Helen Rowell said in Canberra recently that trustees will have to set strategic objectives, keep a written business plan detailing ...

FOS submission points finger at advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... to be known as the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. Last week, the Government named former Federal politician Helen Coonan as the inaugural chair of AFCA, which will begin receiving complaints from 1 November 2018. Today, ASIC released draft ...

Complaints authority welcomes new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
The Federal Government has appointed a former politician to chair the new one-stop-shop financial complaints body. Helen Coonan, who was a long-serving Federal senator and cabinet minister, is the chair of the newly legislated Australian Financial Complaints ...

Australia's wealth gap deepens: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... millionaires in Australia will grow by 46% over the next five years, to about 1.7 million. Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke said a "broken" economic system which concentrates on the wealth of the rich and powerful is fuelling an inequality ...

APRA unveils proposed RSE reform package

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... monitoring and reporting, managing of reserves, as well as increased transparency of financial statements. Deputy chair Helen Rowell said APRA wants to ensure all RSE licensees were prepared to manage emerging challenges, such as changing member demographics ...

APRA delivers poor super fund ultimatum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... industry" if they cannot meet revisions to regulatory frameworks. Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) deputy chair Helen Rowell said the regulator will soon issue a consultation package on revisions to its prudential framework, which will ...

ME Bank recruits for people experience

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
A former general manager at Microsoft is the new group executive, people experience at ME Bank. The industry super fund-owned bank recently appointed Melanie Simpson, who will sit on the executive team and manage ME Bank's people and culture functions. ...