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Aged care RC unveils 148 recommendations

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... workforce; and clearing the Home Care Package waiting list by immediately increasing the packages available. The Health Services Union commented that "Medicare-style levy can transform aged care" with a 0.65% rise in the levy can raise $20.4 billion ...

First Super adds to board

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
... and is currently the on-site secretary of the Maryvale sub-branch of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) Pulp & Paper Workers District. First Super said the pulp and paper industry is a key membership area for the fund ...

JANA awarded mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... clients have over $9.3 billion in assets under management. TUH is not-for-profit and was founded by the Queensland Teachers' Union and is open to past and present union members including teachers, nurses and government employees. TUH chief executive ...

BOQ acquires ME Bank

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... with ME Bank on board." The industry fund shareholders of ME Bank are yet to comment on the acquisition. The Finance Sector Union said that ME Bank staff have been anxious about their futures amid reports of an impending sale recently. "ME Bank employees ...

Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... weeding out underperforming funds. Duds need to go, we don't care if they are run by a profit-making company or a trade union and employer group," Loane said. Scheerlinck is concerned about the lack details around expenditure, which gives the government ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut," Warren Buffett once famously advised. The barber's nod will invariably be met with opposition from shampoo manufacturers. Such is the divide between the Morrison government (the barber) and labour unions ...

Aussie super funds and Biden's US infra push

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... the administration believes these initiatives will create jobs, he said, as its mantra is "creating good paying or 'union jobs' creates middle-class jobs". At this stage, details about the conditions on funding the government will provide are ...

Chief economist update: NIRP embedded in BOE forecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... to protect public health, as well as the nature of, and transition to, the new trading arrangements between the European Union and the United Kingdom. It would also depend on the responses of households, businesses and financial markets to these developments". ...

Billionaires profit from pandemic: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
The nation's wealthiest saw their fortunes increase by nearly $85 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic, a global survey highlighting the widening income-inequity gap shows. Thirty-one Australian billionaires saw their bank balances swell between March ...

Former CFSGAM chief joins property group

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... director at Washington H. Soul Pattinson, Virgin Australia Holdings Limited, Terrace Tower Group, New South Wales Rugby Union and Tantallon Capital Advisors. He has previously worked as the chief executive of CFSGAM ending in June 2009, chief executive ...