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Super funds told to report asset valuations more frequently

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2022
... requirements under the recently strengthened Prudential Standard SPS 530 Investment Governance (SPS 530). Draft Prudential Practice Guide SPG 530 Investment Governance (SPG 530) also includes additional guidance on liquidity management, stress testing ...

APRA proposes changes to successor fund transfers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2022
... delays relating to transferring members. Therefore, APRA intends to enhance existing guidance to replace Prudential Practice Guide SPG 227 Successor Fund Transfers and Wind-ups, and to develop new requirements for a prompt transfer of MySuper members ...

BlackRock expands proxy voting to retail investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2022
... also widened the range of voting guidelines from which clients can choose. "Until now, technological, operational, and regulatory hurdles have, for the most part, allowed us to offer voting choice only to certain institutional investors like pension ...

Plans afoot to narrow gender pay gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... young children work an additional 1.4 million hours a week. The government said it is developing a National Strategy to guide whole-of-government actions to achieve the goal of Australia being a global leader in gender equality, setting our concrete ...

Tech providers support QAR SOA proposals

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022
... more work a provider will need to do to be satisfied they are in fact providing good advice, thus there are enough regulatory guidelines to roll back to for consumer protection." Overall, she felt optimistic that the industry may be steps away from delivering ...

ASIC updates remediation rules

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2022
... financial system. A further $1.6 billion is yet to be paid to about 2.7 million consumers. ASIC has updated its Regulatory Guide 277 (RG 277) following two years of public consultation with both consumer and industry stakeholder s. The updated guide ...

Ethical ETF popularity soars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2022
... noted that ETFs, given their transparent disclosure of underlying companies, also meet the moment in terms of enhanced regulatory attention to claims of greenwashing. Liddell pointed to an announcement by ACCC deputy chair Delia Rickard this week that ...

APRA to modernise regulatory frameworks

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2022
... technology to support better regulation and develop new approaches to tackle emerging risks and business models on the regulatory perimeter. Over 2022, APRA has been building the foundations for the program and engaging with international regulatory ...

Super wars not over: Swan

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... chair Naomi Edwards shared a slightly different perspective. "For the last 10 years we've been in the valley of regulatory terror awaiting what new changes will arise, and I think there'll be a breather from that," she said. Now, she said, the ...

Focus on providing 'good advice': QAR draft proposals

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... responsibility on providers than laws which prescribe process. It also creates the opportunity to remove many of the regulatory requirements relating to disclosure and some relating to conduct." 'Good advice' is defined by Levy as that which ...