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This paper outlines the methodology that APRA has used to produce the Comprehensive Product Performance Package (‘the CPPP’). The CPPP provides comparable information on the investment returns and fees and costs of the MySuper industry and a segment of the Choice industry within the superannuation sector.

The release of the Comprehensive Product Performance Package (CPPP) is the next step in APRA’s work to sharpen trustees’ focus on improving member outcomes by bringing together performance metrics of the performance test and the former heatmaps.

This information paper aims to help accountable entities and their accountable persons understand and meet their obligations under the Financial Accountability Regime, while outlining how the Regulators will jointly administer the FAR and exercise their regulatory and enforcement powers.

This Response Paper summarises the key substantive feedback from industry and other stakeholders and sets out APRA’s response. In conjunction with this Response Paper, APRA is releasing updated final versions of the standard and guidance, SPS 515 and SPG 515, which now incorporates the draft guidance from SPG 516.

This industry update summarises the responses to a voluntary survey issued by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in November 2023.

APRA has decided to maintain its existing macroprudential policy settings. The mortgage serviceability buffer will remain at 3 percentage points, and the countercyclical capital buffer will stay at 1 per cent of risk-weighted assets.

This discussion paper sets out Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA’s) proposals to enhance its superannuation data collection relating to Registrable Superannuation Entity (RSE) licensee profile; RSE profile; Investments (including indirect investment costs); and RSE licensee financial statements.

The Performance Test is designed to improve member outcomes by assessing the performance of superannuation investment options against tailored benchmarks. The Performance Test has been in place for MySuper products since 2021 and was extended to Trustee Directed Products (‘TDPs’), a subset of the choice sector, in 2023. This paper presents additional insights regarding product performance since the inaugural Performance Test in 2021.

Prudential Standard SPS 515 Strategic Planning and Member Outcomes (SPS 515) is a core standard for superannuation. It is designed to ensure RSE licensees have robust business operations and are held to account to ensure their strategies and decisions deliver outcomes that are in the best financial interests of members, consistent with community expectations.

This paper outlines the approach APRA takes when combining the performance histories of two or more MySuper products in certain scenarios in administering the performance test. It also explains APRA’s approach to providing investment performance data to the Australian Tax Office (ATO) for inclusion in the YourSuper comparison tool.