APRA statistics cause confusion
11 October 2005
APRA has released its Quarterly General Insurance Performance statistics for the second quarter, despite releasing its Insight statistics for the same period only a couple of weeks ago…
11 October 2005
APRA has released its Quarterly General Insurance Performance statistics for the second quarter, despite releasing its Insight statistics for the same period only a couple of weeks ago…
11 October 2005
APRA last week added another notch to its HIH disqualification belt…
11 October 2005
Advice provided by real estate agents may be regulated by the Financial Services Reform Act, according to an independent report commissioned by major accountants’ body CPA Australia…
04 October 2005
APRA has released a discussion paper dealing with changes to life company financial statements and contract classification…
04 October 2005
Proposals to expand directors’ duties below board level as a result of the HIH Royal Commission recommendations have received mixed reactions from business groups…
04 October 2005
Do you have an opinion on the sort of information the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority should include in its upcoming publication on general insurance industry statistics…?
27 September 2005
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has disqualified another former HIH senior executive, taking the number of people disqualified to 27
27 September 2005
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has reminded motorists insured with Liban Net to check their policies after the Federal Court of Australia found company director…
20 September 2005
Axa’s Asia-Pacific boss Andy Penn – long regarded as the successor to CEO Les Owen – has vowed to fight a decision by APRA to disqualify him from running a superannuation fund…
20 September 2005
Former HIH senior executive Greg Brown has been disqualified from being or acting as a director or senior manager of a general insurer by APRA…
13 September 2005
ASIC is “100% on schedule” to deliver the eight financial services regulation refinement projects the Government gave it back in May…
06 September 2005
The days of overlong, legalistic and unreadable statements of advice are numbered…
06 September 2005
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has released the second of two discussion papers setting out its proposed response to the adoption of…
30 August 2005
ASIC and the New Zealand Securities Commission met in Sydney last week for their third time to thrash out ways to achieve better regulatory co-operation…
30 August 2005
The NSW Supreme Court has convicted three former directors of GIO Insurance for breaching their duties during the course of AMP’s 1998/99 takeover bid for GIO Australia…
30 August 2005
After weeks of delays, the case against former entrepreneur Brad Cooper and his involvement in the collapse of HIH finally began in the NSW Supreme Court last week…
30 August 2005
The prudential regulator has warned insurers to seek its permission before they enter into offshore arrangements…
16 August 2005
As Assistant Treasurer Mal Brough noted on Thursday, both APRA and the ACCC have released reports which show the insurance industry is doing its bit to get liability insurance rates…
16 August 2005
Smaller companies struggling with high compliance costs will lose out if APRA’s proposed governance standards get the green light, according to Australia’s peak body…
09 August 2005
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken the first step in implementing the Federal Government’s refinements to the financial services regulations…