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Super assets lose $25bn

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... increase assets by 6.7 per cent to $361 billion, according to data released by APRA. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) yesterday released its Annual Superannuation Bulletin with figures for the financial year to 30 June 2008. According ...

APRA outlines priorities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA) is focused on authorised deposit taking institutions (ADIs) liquidity risk, prudent capital management and executive remuneration this year. Speaking at the Australian British Chamber of Commerce ...

Fin services escapes consumer law reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... jurisdictions of the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). The exemption is one of the fundamental weaknesses in how financial services is regulated in Australia, said Jeremy ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... listed investments. The SelectingSuper data comes ahead of the imminent release of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) league tables, which will show for the first time individual data performance of 500 super funds. This contrasts ...

Options for retiring SMSF trustees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... to winding up a SMSF is to transfer the trusteeship and convert the fund to a Small Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Fund (SAF). SAFs are similar to SMSFs, except an approved trustee is appointed to administer it, and APRA replaces the ...

MetLife appoints head of insto

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... appointed Richard Anderson as head of institutional business. Anderson, currently with Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), will join MetLife in October and be responsible for building on the 2007 and 2008 growth and client focus of MetLife's ...

SMSFs maintain investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... In fact, 61 per cent intend to invest in blue chip shares in the next 12 months. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) found SMSF assets grew $29 billion or 11 per cent to $286 billion in the year to March. The AMP Capital/Investment ...

Slash fees with national default fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... could operate at fee levels as low as 10 basis points. Wilson Sy, a researcher at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, in a paper he presented to last week's Australian Colloqium of Superannuation Researchers titled " Toward a national default ...

Industry funds steering clear of FHSAs

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
The release this week of Australian Prudential Regulation Authority draft prudential standards for super funds that plan to offer first home saver accounts has confirmed the view of many fund trustees that the FHSA structure and regulatory framework ...

Research and rating firms welcome Govt review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... corporate law, Senator Nick Sherry, announced ASIC and the Treasury, with the input of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), would review the regulation of CRAs and research houses. "There have been some very serious concerns voiced ...