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Cash rate hits 4.1%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has hiked rates by another 25 basis points to bring the official cash rate to 4.1%. Many experts fear that Australia is teetering on the edge of a recession and that the latest decision by the nation's central bank ...

ASIC bans former Madison adviser

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
Brisbane-based financial adviser Stephen Vick received the ban for recommending his clients roll over their existing superannuation to a newly established self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) and borrow to invest in residential property. The regulator's ...

Senate Committee rethinks franking credit changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has urged the government to review laws that would impact franked dividends funded by capital raisings. In February, the government tabled the Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No.1) Bill 2023 which among ...

ASIC chair calls out greenhushing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
Greenhushing - in which companies stop all voluntary disclosure of ESG information - is just another form of greenwashing, according to ASIC chair Joe Longo. In a public speech, Longo provided additional context to the market regulator's focus on ESG ...

ASX lays out five-year plan to restore trust

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is confident that it can restore stakeholders' trust and get its fundamentals and governance right as it lays out a five-year plan to rectify ongoing issues. ASX managing director and chief executive Helen ...

Fraudulent property director charged

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
Michael David Steele has been charged with seven counts of fraud after he misled 14 investors into using their superannuation and other savings to invest a property development. Following an investigation, ASIC is alleging that between May 2016 and ...

AI in ESG: Risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is already rapidly disrupting various industries, speeding up processes and making fast work of huge amounts of data, and investors and businesses need to analyse the material ESG risks and opportunities of ...

ESSSuper reduces admin fees, renews insurance mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
ESSSuper is reducing administration fees and plans to rebate some of this financial year's admin fees, citing efficiencies gained through outsourcing administration. Meanwhile, it has also signed a new group insurance contract. Currently, ESSSuper ...

First Sentier clients walk away with $13bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
The fund manager bled $12.6 billion in outflows across several managed funds in the year to March, Rainmaker research shows. Four of First Sentier Investors' products lost more than $1 billion in net flows each, Rainmaker's latest Wholesale ...

Economists divided over cash rate decision

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
Accelerating wages growth and higher than expected inflation would perhaps indicate an increase is justified, however, the economic hardships faced by Australians is intensifying. According to an economic misery index by the University of Melbourne ...