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Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... judgements about risk management and return profiles - new regulations from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) require trustees to sign risk management statements, in which trustees define what they see as risks to the future benefits ...

Financial System Inquiry recommends on impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... facilitate market development." The main recommendations are clearer guidance from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on the "appropriateness of impact investment for superannuation trustees," and an amendment to the law to "facilitate ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has informed superannuation fund trustees that materiality is part of the board's risk management declaration, widening the scope of risks that trustees must disclose to the prudential regulator. ...

VicSuper publishes first G4, Integrated Reporting annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... technical information in there that we have to include in our report as far as the [Australian Prudential Regulation Authority] APRA reporting requirements are concerned. It has been sent to local ministers here in Victoria, and we have also reused a ...

Advisory Board's bold strategy to increase impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... citizens. [The report] elicited responses from participants including from [The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority] APRA who have put on the record in their response to the interim report that once superannuation funds have met the requirements ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... governance, risk and compliance managers, in the wake of new regulations from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) around governance standards, including risk management. In the survey, 57% of funds do not currently have independent ...

UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... bodies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). "The goal is to have the same licensing level as any other retail fund manager," Walsh said. "We've engaged Mercer Legal ...

APRA: 22% of superannuation fund directors women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds in 2013, an increase from 16% in 2006, according to data from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). But although there is a higher percentage of women holding directorships in superannuation than on ASX200 listed ...

Australian Ethical Investment to reorganise business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... currently in the process of getting authorisation for its MySuper product from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), he said. The consolidation of the Canberra office and the outsourcing activities will cost AU$300,000 to Australian ...

LUCRF Community Partnership Trust opens in South Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Centre in Brisbane. When establishing the trust in 2010, LUCRF spoke with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to make sure that funding the CPT was in line with the fund's legal obligations. Because the CPT is funded from the super ...