In forceGeneral insurance: CapitalLast checked 11 November 2026

Details of investment assets (GRS 114.4)

A regulatory return listed by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Australia.

Collects information on a general insurer's investment assets. APRA uses it to supervise the firm (prudential supervision), including checking it meets the capital standards. Source

Official title: Reporting Standard GRS 114.4 Details of Investment Assets

The facts

Who files
This Reporting Standard applies to all general insurers authorised under the Insurance Act 1973 (insurers). Source
How often
Quarterly and annually (each quarter and each financial year of the insurer). Source
Deadline
Within the time stated in GRS 001: 20 business days after the end of the reporting period for quarterly information and three months after the end of the reporting period for annual information; three months for a Level 2 insurance group. Source
Format
XML, Excel, Web form. A former D2A collection: reporting in APRA Connect (XML, Excel or manual entry) began for the 30 September 2026 reference period. Entities may opt out return by return and use the Alternate Submission Process instead (XML, XBRL or Excel files uploaded as an ad hoc ZIP). Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the APRA: APRA Connect; Alternate Submission Process (temporary). See how firms file with the APRA.
Status
In force
Group
General insurance: Capital

Templates (1)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the APRA's code in brackets.

  • Details of Investment Assets (GRF_114_4)

Forms listed in APRA’s APRA Connect taxonomy for this migrated D2A collection (General Insurance). Source

Validation rules

66 rules, as counted from the APRA's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: Excel Rules worksheet with an Expression column (APRA Connect expression syntax), a constraint column and a failure message for each rule..

The rules, on apra.gov.au

How they were counted

Rules in the Rules worksheet of the APRA Connect taxonomy whose List Name, Display Text or Forms column names a form of this standard: 66 of the 254 rules in General Insurance Taxonomy.xlsx (4 rules in that file name no single form, such as ABN, reporting date and some cross-form checks, and are not counted).

Counts are in the APRA's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

Published only added up across firms. Data from this return appear in: Quarterly general insurance performance statistics (industry totals). Source

Where it is published (Excel database and specifications)

  • Quarterly general insurance performance statistics

    Added up across firms · Excel database and specifications

    Industry totals for general insurers: financial performance and position, investments and capital adequacy, by class of business and state, quarterly. The specifications file maps each published item to its source reporting standard. Source

Official documents (10)

The APRA's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.