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Former adviser back in Australia to face theft charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... allegedly stole $4.1 million from 13 clients between January 2009 and October 2013. She then fled to New Zealand, with the Federal Court making interim asset preservation orders against her in 2014 as investigations into where the money had gone kicked ...

Chalmers says tax reform coming, but offers no detail

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... that while the government intends to cut income taxes twice more, which was already legislated before the most recent federal election, the Roundtable discussions last week highlighted the need for more reform. "When we changed the tax cuts and then ...

ASIC freezes assets of First Mutual Private Equity

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
The Federal Court imposed urgent interim orders to freeze the assets of First Mutual Private Equity (FMPE) and its sole director Gregory Raymond Cotton, with ASIC concerned more than $50 million of investor funds is at risk. ASIC is investigating FMPE ...

Anti-hawking exemption for advisers a 'silly carve out': SCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... value to consumers, erode super balances due to exorbitant fees, and jeopardise people's life savings. SCA is urging the federal government to prohibit unfair trading practices economy-wide, including for financial services, and pushing for an amendment ...

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... Pakistan, a series of confusing announcements from Trump on his tariff policies and a stream of invective directed at the US Federal Reserve, which is stubbornly refusing to cut interest rates on command. Perhaps market sentiment has become immune to ...

Unemployment falls, more women enter the workforce

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
... but now it is finally coming down - thanks to the collective efforts of working people, their unions and reforms by the federal Labor government," ACTU president Michele O'Neil said. "The level of women in work is now also at its highest level ever ...

Mercer Super sued over 'longstanding and systemic' failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... member services failures, including one into premiums charged to dead members being refunded incorrectly. Lodged with the Federal Court today, the proceedings allege Mercer Super failed to report seven serious investigations at all, while another was ...

NAB fined over $15m for delaying hardship applications

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
The Federal Court has ordered National Australia Bank (NAB) and its subsidiary ASFH Nominees to pay a pecuniary penalty of $15.5 million for failing to respond to customers facing hardship. The court found that between 2018 and 2023, NAB and ASFH failed ...

ASIC to review RG97 to boost property supply

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... Zorbas said doing so would be a zero-cost, high-benefit improvement to the regulation. "Critically, and rarely amongst federal politicians, the Minister for Housing and Cities understands the importance of institutional investment into the work of Australian ...

Decade-long ban for UGC director upheld

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... superannuation 'health check,'" ASIC said at time of banning. Subsequently, ASIC obtained interim orders from the Federal Court freezing the assets of UGC and its authorised representative Global Capital Property Fund (GCPF). The entity entered ...