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Senate to question ASIC over alleged RBA corruption

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
The Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will "no doubt" question the regulator over its failure to act on the alleged corruption within subsidiary companies of the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... Earlier losses in Tokyo were reversed as traders were cheered by a report that Japan's government was planning to cut corporation taxes to negate the blow of an expected sales tax hike. The Nikkei rose 1.22 per cent, or 178.59 points, to 14,799.12 - ...

ACSI appoints Future Fund exec as new chief

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has appointed senior Future Fund executive Gordon Hagart to replace chief executive Ann Byrne who will retire from the role in October. Hagart is currently head of environmental, social and governance ...

Cash Converters to raise $60m through bond issue

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Alternative credit provider and pawnbroker Cash Converters is the latest company to issue an unrated corporate bond through fixed income broker FIIG Securities. Cash Converters hopes to raise between $50 and $60 million through the unsecured bond issue. ...

Australian pension fund growth outstrips global average

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... AustralianSuper (54), QSuper (80), First State Super (94), State Super NSW (96), UniSuper (104), Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) (126), REST (142), HESTA (160), Sunsuper (161), Cbus (167), ESSSuper (194), Super SA (235), GESB (247) and ...

Macquarie loses court battle with ATO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Under the OBU regime, revenue earned offshore is taxed at 10% rather than the standard 30% corporation tax, as a means of encouraging Australian banks to expand overseas. However, many banks have exploited loopholes in the system ...

ASIC issues governance warning on local emerging market companies

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... operations or assets outside of Australia. In light of the high profile 2011 collapse of the Toronto listed Sino-Forest Corporation, the regulator has published a report (REP 368) outlining potential risks in local emerging market issuers. While the ...

Bowen and Cormann at odds over adviser enshrinement

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
The debate around the enshrinement of the term 'financial planner' has revealed division between Treasurer Chris Bowen and shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann. "An important priority for a re-elected Rudd Labor ...

AMP Capital raises US$300m for infra debt fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... this was the first direct infrastructure fund that AMP Capital's business partner Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) had marketed to their clients - "with great success." AMP's global infrastructure debt team consists of eight investment ...

Gunns chairman avoids jail for insider trading

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
Former Gunns chairman John Eugene Gay has avoided jail and instead been fined $50,000 and banned from managing a corporation for five years. Gay is the most senior executive to be convicted of insider trading in Australia and pleaded guilty to the crime ...