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iProsperity accused of being a Ponzi scheme

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
The administrator appointed to embattled investment group iProsperity, Cor Cordis, has released a damning creditors' report which includes accusations of Ponzi scheme style payments. The report suggests investor money was misappropriated by iProsperity ...

SG increase will be deferred: Knox

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... be significant. I think policy makers now need to seriously consider pre-testing eligibility." Editor's note: This article was updated at 4.25pm. An earlier version of this article incorrectly implied that Cbus was in favour of delaying an increase ...

Watchdog warns of celebrity-endorsed bitcoin scams

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter," the watchdog said. "When an investor clicks on the article or ad, they are often sent to a 'mirror site' - a fake version of a legitimate news site such as ABC News." The ...

J.P. Morgan launches ESG integration policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... impact our ESG integrated products, we will provide additional information, including any required disclosures." This article was first published on The Sustainability Report.

Disgraced lobbyist charged

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
A disgraced American lobbyist, businessman and movie producer, who was played by actor Kevin Spacey in a movie about his life, has been charged over his role in a fraudulent bitcoin scheme. Jack Abramoff, who in 2006 was sentenced to six years in federal ...

VicSuper disputes fee hike claim

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... $3500", the industry fund told Financial Standard that members would not be subjected to a "fee hit" as asserted in the article. According to the fund, more than 225,000 members will instead receive fee relief, in the form of a 20% decrease in administration ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... likely off the table, a former senior public servant and academic has pressed the case for wage growth instead. In an article for The Conversation, Australian National University College of Business and Economics visiting fellow, and former senior public ...

IOOF to provide fee relief to adviser network

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
IOOF has announced a new initiative that will see its network of financial advisers offer free financial guidance to local communities until the end of September. IOOF said it is providing fee relief to its advisers to volunteer 60 hours of their time ...

Advisers involved in ERS scams: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
ASIC superannuation senior executive leader Jane Eccleston has written an article pointing to financial advisers as part of the problem in scams targeting people's super amid COVID-19. Eccleston said: "ASIC is concerned that some advisers may use the ...

Gargantuan stimulus needed to survive economic disaster

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... households and businesses, already leveraged with debt well before the COVID-19 crisis, struggle to pay back their loans. In an article for the Conversation, University of Sydney Professor of macroeconomics James Morley and UNSW Professor of economics ...