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Aware Super adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
... technology, membership administration and corporate service functions. Nigro is on the state executive board for the Australian Labor Party NSW and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. "Angela is joining us at an exciting time ...

AUSTRAC to face scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), which has handed out record fines to the big banks, will face new scrutiny from the Senate. Labor Senator Deborah O'Neill'smotion to set up an inquiry into the agency through the Senate Legal and Constitutional Reference ...

Australia among the richest nations

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... (US$238,070). "There have been large differences in income shocks during the pandemic. In many high-income countries the loss of labor or business income was softened by emergency benefits and employment policies," the report read. Some government assistance ...

AFA defends industry against Labor attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers has slammed the Labor Party's attack on financial advisers, which paints the profession as dodgy and continues to rip-off consumers. AFA acting chief executive Phil Anderson is calling for an end to the "persecution" ...

Your Future, Your Super passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... reforms were passed in the Senate today. One Nation and Jackie Lambie voted with the government in favour of the bill, while Labor and the Greens objected to it. However, an amendment was passed which will delay benchmarking and stapling until November. ...

More super tax concessions on table

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... Superannuation Jane Hume supported Hanson in the Senate, giving her a chance to move her suggested amendment forward. But Queensland Labor Senator Murray Watts argued that Hanson's suggested amendment would only benefit those already earning high incomes ...

Chief economist update: US inflation may not be as transitory as the Fed believes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... Fed watches in determining its next policy move only a month apart? Wall Street rallied last month when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the US economy added 266,000 jobs in April, well-below market expectations for a nearly 1 million ...

Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... Federal Reserve would reduce its policy accommodation in the very near future. The day was June 4 - the day the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the economy generated only 559,000 jobs in May, missing consensus expectations for the creation ...

YFYS on its way to Senate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
The House of Representatives passed hotly-debated Your Future, Your Super bill last night, with Labor getting away with just one of the amendments on its wish list. Best Financial Interest Duty's proposal to give ministers the power to ban superannuation ...

How noise impacts trading performance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
Did trading desks perform better or worse when they were forced to work from home last year? That is the question UNSW Business school researchers sought to answer. A study by UNSW Business School associate professors Elise Payzan-LeNestour and James ...