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Bitcoin halving won't bring immediate price rise

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
The Bitcoin halving event - which occurred over the weekend - has seen optimism around the cryptocurrency rise, but major price increases may take some time to shine through. The halving event is coded to occur every 210,000 blocks and halves the reward ...

Top 10% of households home to 15 times more wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... support those worst affected by income inequality is to raise the rate of JobSeeker to at least match the pension rate of $80 a day. Currently, it is $55 a day.

Sequoia chair steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... Sequoia Financial Group, John Larsen, has resigned from the position and his replacement has been appointed. Larsen's last day as chair was April 18 following five years at the post. He will stay at Sequoia as a non-executive director and chair of the ...

Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
Income inequality is too high and continues to balloon in 60% of low- and middle-income countries studied by Oxfam International, tipping the Gini coefficient well above acceptable levels. Oxfam found that income inequality is rampant among 64 out of ...

ASIC chief executive to depart

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... Joe Longo accepted a request from the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) for ASIC chief executive Warren Day to join the CDPP on secondment as the director's executive officer. Day said he will not be returning to ASIC at the conclusion ...

Netwealth's share price rises following strong inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2024
... and strong conversion rates across all segments. The group also flagged that founder Michael Heine, who stepped back from day-to-day management in October 2022 to become an executive director will now transition to a non-executive director role as he ...

Billionaire receives death penalty for embezzlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2024
A Vietnamese billionaire property developer has been sentenced to death for embezzling US$12.5 billion - the country's largest case of financial fraud, several reports show. The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City yesterday handed down the death ...

Government introduces company merger overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
Australia's merger rules will be reformed in a bid to boost competition and productivity in the economy. Treasurer Jim Chalmers and assistant minister for competition, charities, and treasury Andrew Leigh jointly stated that mergers will be approved ...

James Mawhinney arrested as Mayfair 101 saga rolls on

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... demonstrate unless (the charges) are dropped.... there may be a further action to demonstrate malicious prosecution.'" The day before he was arrested, Mawhinney published an article on the Mayfair 101 website, again calling for a Parliamentary inquiry ...

Forager schedules LIT delisting

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... Entity considers that the fund would be more appropriately operated as an open-ended, unlisted unit trust with daily (if that day is a business day) redemptions and subscriptions based on NAV," The Trust Company said. FOR traded at an average discount ...
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