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Insurers will pay more for regulators

19 June 2001

Financial services providers – including life and general insurers – will pay nearly $68 million in levies to keep the regulators running in 2001/02…

Hockey answers question

19 June 2001

Financial Services and Regulation Minister Joe Hockey has commented on confusion surrounding a recent Business Review Weekly article, in which he was quoted criticising…

Actuaries honour teacher

13 June 2001

John Pollard, the Professor of Actuarial Studies at Macquarie University, has become only the third person to be awarded the Institute of Actuaries in Australia’s silver medal…

HIH commissioner name due

13 June 2001

The Federal Government has settled on a person to head up the impending royal commission into the HIH collapse, and will probably name him within days…

Insurance will rally round for VWC

13 June 2001

The ICA will work with the Victorian Work Cover Authority and the state government to improve the efficiency of the Work Cover scheme…

Second lot of FSRB proposals arrive

13 June 2001

Lawyers and various other experts are poring over the latest package of policy proposal papers related to the Financial Services Reform Bill…

Opposition supports FSRB

22 May 2001

Opposition Financial Services spokesman Stephen Conroy has laid aside any lingering doubts about the ALP’s support for the financial services reforms…

APRA on the fast track

22 May 2001

Meanwhile, APRA’s beleaguered CEO Graeme Thompson is pushing his staff to have the final rounds of industry consultation on proposed new prudential standards completed…

We back the bill, say insurers

22 May 2001

Just in case you were wondering… yes, the insurance industry does support the fast-tracking of the new General Insurance Act…

FSRB: Its heavy going

08 May 2001

NIBA’s Noel Pettersen warned months ago that the devil will be in the detail of the Financial Services Reform Bill…

FSRB details – here they are

01 May 2001

ASIC has released the first package of policy proposal and process-related papers on administrative issues arising from the Financial Services Reform Bill…

Putting flesh on FSRB’s bones

01 May 2001

Phillips Fox specialist Robert Tobias said the FSRB itself is “really the bare bones” of the legislation…

It wasn’t our fault: APRA

24 April 2001

In case you didn’t get the message before: APRA has issued a wordy media release “revisiting” its role in the downfall of HIH…

Policy papers delayed

10 April 2001

The introduction of the FSRB into Parliament has also changed ASIC’s schedule for releasing policy proposal papers…

Consumer role gets higher priority

10 April 2001

Consumer protection is being given a greater emphasis by ASIC with the creation of a new Consumer Protection National Directorate…