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ASIC's Chester spills Crennan truth

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... of Mr Crennan's travel allowance payments in a previous financial year had brought it to the attention of ASIC and nothing was done about it," he said. "It is not normal for the auditor-general to write to a minister and say that in order to gain ...

Risk but no reward in institutional equities portfolios

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... holdings cancelling each other out and hurting performance. "While the concept of the cancellation effect at a stock level is nothing new, the frequency of underlying holdings, style tilts and sector over- and under-weights cancelling each other out ...

ASIC reviewing risk advice, pushes for scaled advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... advice but we are hearing from licensees that they don't want their advisers in that space," she said. Metz said there is nothing in the law stopping advisers from offering scaled advice but thinks there is a misapprehension that the corporate regulator ...

Hume clarifies survival of the fittest in MySuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... part of the federal budget this week. FSC chief executive Sally Loane started the event by pointing out that Hume "gave nothing away" about the impending changes to superannuation in her pre-budget media appearance on the ABC, surprising many in the ...

Opposition in opposition: Labor responds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... to find out if that is the right and responsible way to spend so much money." Bandt said the business tax cuts will do nothing but help big business and hurt casual workers. "There are no limits on what is possible right now, if we just have the vision ...

No evidence lower SG will result in higher wages: ACTU summit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... she said. "It's very hard to achieve wage growth in a recession so workers will either get the SG rise or they'll get nothing and they have had nothing now for 16 years in real wage growth." Bill Kelty, former ACTU secretary, agreed with the sentiment ...

Adviser demands answers from Media Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... post. "This was a desperate plea from me to you to intervene. I labelled the message clearly. What do I get from you? Nothing. Are you too busy to care Media Super ?" Financial Standard reached out to Griffin for comment. He said: "You can understand ...

Chief economist update: Australia succumbs to pandemic-induced recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
It was good - so good - while it lasted. But as the saying goes, "nothing lasts forever". It had been more than a generation since Australia experienced "the recession we had to have" back in 1990/91. The Australian economy withstood the US savings ...

Law firm summarises report AMP won't release

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... apologies were not delivered to Ms Szlakowski personally. Apologising via a press release is not genuine. It appears to be nothing more than an empty PR gesture" In response, Bornstein summarised the two pages of findings of Burns' investigation Szlakowski ...

Heine family sells Netwealth shares

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... $27.8 million from the sale of 2 million (of the 5.5 million) NWL shares attributed to him in company filings. "There is nothing untoward in the sale. The stock has done incredibly well since the IPO, they are still big believers in the business, they ...