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Retail super funds spend big on advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... adviser. It can also include payments to advisers with respect to member-initiated usage of advice services offered by the RSE licensee and charged to the member under agreed or activity-based advice fees. Industry funds spent the most on intra-fund ...

APRA questioned on super performance test

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... investment offerings for accumulation members. "We are currently examining trustee expenditure data at a fund level to ensure that RSE Licensees decisions are in members' best financial interests." Lonsdale added that APRA is focused on the ways in which ...

Operational risk reserve targets trimmed for larger funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... appropriately account for the increasing scale of larger super funds. "Given this change, and noting APRA's expectation that RSE licensees will determine their ORFR target amount in line with the guidance, APRA is no longer proposing that RSE licensees ...

APRA prioritises supervision of trustee spending

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2024
... saying it has identified "deficient" and "questionable" practices among funds. APRA deputy chair Margaret Cole has informed all RSE licensees that it will be intensifying its supervision of their expenditure as it looks to curb spending that is not in ...

Insignia Financial looks to slash redundancy entitlements

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
The Finance Sector Union (FSU) is calling on Insignia Financial to rethink a proposed overhaul of redundancy pay arrangements after the wealth manager tabled a plan to cut entitlements by more than half. The FSU is currently negotiating a new Enterprise ...

Industry funds defend CFMEU board ties

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
Industry funds BUSSQ and Cbus have defended their respective boards' close ties to the CFMEU, saying all representatives satisfy the fit and proper standards outlined by APRA. This week the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime ...

Insignia Financial overhauls operating model, executive team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... Sunsuper for seven years. They also previously worked together at NAB. Elsewhere, Sharon Suan is joining the business' RSE boards as chief member officer on July 29. She also joins from AMP, where she was superannuation trustee executive up until ...

APRA: RSE licensees show 'common areas of weakness'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a letter to all registrable superannuation entity (RSE) licensees sharing the initial observations from its targeted thematic review of the superannuation industry's preparedness for ...

Trustee boards fail to challenge unlisted valuations: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024
APRA says there is room for improvement when it comes to trustees' oversight of unlisted asset valuations, finding most super fund boards don't question valuations. In a letter to all RSEs, APRA reminded them of the need to have a robust asset valuation ...

EQT updates on Australian Executor Trustees acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... June 3, with SuperConcepts the new administrator for the funds. EQT said it remains as the trustee for the funds through its RSE Licensee held by subsidiary Equity Trustees Superannuation Limited (ETSL). In addition, EQT said the exit of the platform ...