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APRA introduces annual stress-testing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
Authorised deposit-taking institutions are in need of ongoing improvement in stress testing for all entities, according to APRA's review of 28 ADIs. The regulator said all ADIs should review their internal stress testing frameworks after the findings ...

JANA dragged into Rest legal stoush

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... JANA building a capability to stress test portfolios for climate change risk in 2019 will have to be handed over. Stress testing, assessing the potential impact of scenarios on a portfolio, is just one element of the information McVeigh wants his super ...

Climate change an imminent threat to returns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... that sudden impacts are actually more likely than neat, annual averages and that is why they have included the stress testing tool. Mercer global head of investment research Deb Clarke said: "This is clearly a fiduciary issue as it is about managing ...

Perpetual partners with Microsoft

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... it was too late to act," Hickin said. The Perpetual Business Intelligence Platform's other modules offer credit stress testing and the IFRS 9 global accounting standards for compliance. The credit stress testing module streamlines APRA reporting for ...

Russell wins consulting mandate from $700m super fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... market means we are well placed to assist our superannuation client with additional investment-related needs such as stress testing and other compliance requirements as well as member communications." Earlier in the year, Russell won a major mandate ...

US recommends asset manager stress tests be removed

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... that makes several recommendations for its financial services industry, including the elimination of statutory stress testing for investment managers. The stress testing call came as part of several recommendations in US Treasury's third report on the ...

NAS selects StatPro Revolution

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... investment structure in detail, including looking at unitised trusts, multiple performance attribution models, scenario stress testing and APRA's Standard Risk Measure. "NAB's extensive expertise and local regulatory knowledge in Australia, coupled with ...

Super governance at top of APRA agenda

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... identify where further improvements in practices are still needed." In general and life insurance, APRA is conducting stress testing with a focus on "prudential soundness" following period of underperformance in the industry. "There has clearly been ...

Regulators put super funds on notice

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... that's why we're still very mindful to see that's properly monitored and properly managed," Roodt said. "On the stress testing side we are seeing increasing sophistication in terms of how it's applied. Equally it's still something with a lot of room ...

VicSuper hires alternative investment specialist

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... at the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). "The need to enhance our risk management capability, including more stress testing of risk scenarios, is a priority for VicSuper," Fabian said. Tsiaousis starts on 1 July 2015. VicSuper is a $15 billion profit-to-member ...