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Bragg calls for another Financial System Inquiry, critiques ASIC, APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
... concerns about APRA's effectiveness, particularly regarding perceived shortcomings in enforcing the Best Financial Interests Duty (BFID). Despite its straightforward intention, there's a worrying trend where large superannuation entities, purportedly ...

BFID no hindrance to helping vulnerable members: Panel

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... more for vulnerable members, while ASIC commissioner Danielle Press agreed and pointed out that the best financial interests duty actually allows for different members to be treated differently. "Vulnerability can be intrinsic or as a result of factors ...

APRA releases annual corporate plan

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
APRA published its updated plan to reinforce the financial soundness of the banking, insurance and superannuation industries over the next four years, with few surprises on offer. The priorities in APRA's new Corporate Plan for 2022-2023 are based ...

Performance test expansion paused as government announces review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... superannuation products." The review will also consider concerns relating to the regulatory complexity of best financial interests duty requirements, Treasury said. The announcement is the fulfilment of an announcement made by Jones during the Responsible ...

Carbon transition and MBFID: Is it possible to meet both?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... making these new investments with decarbonisation in mind would actually meet trustees' members' best financial interests duty? It has long been argued, proven even, that investing in fossil fuelled assets is not in members' long-term best interests ...

APRA questions trustees on financial resilience

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... existing reserves will be drawn on. Trustees must also justify how their approach would meet the best financial interests duty. As applications seeking judicial advice are still before the Courts, APRA notes that matters relating to the charging of trustee ...

No proof of member benefit: APRA on super fund spends

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
... campaigns reviewed have since ceased, those that continued after July 1 - when funds were subject to the best financial interests duty - are being addressed by APRA. The regulator has written to the funds, requesting they demonstrate the impact of the ...

Super system "frayed": Hume

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
... address these inadequacies. Hume appeared to take a swipe at some funds when she said that under the best financial interests duty clarification within Your Future, Your Super funds will not be able to spend member money on activities that don't provide ...

APRA to mandate independent certifications

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
... Guide SPG 250 Insurance in Superannuation (SPG 250). APRA said the amendments aim to meet the new best financial interests duty and the reverse evidential burden of proof, recently implemented as part of the government's Your Future, Your Super reforms ...

Include ESG in BFID: FSC

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... Services Council (FSC) wants superannuation funds' ESG investments to be included in the proposed Best Financial Interests Duty. The government's BFID wants super trustees to make decisions that are in best "financial" interests of their members. The ...
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