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ASIC chair steps aside pending pay review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... outcome of a review into his remuneration arrangements. Tabling the 2019/20 ASIC annual report today and addressing the Senate Estimates committee, Shipton flagged certain relocation expenses incurred by both him and deputy chair Daniel Crennan. Shipton ...

SMSF changes unlikely to mushroom new funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... Thorp. Earlier this month, a bill to increase the maximum number of SMSF members from four to six was reintroduced to the Senate, and the government has asked submissions on questions about it. To the question of whether raising the maximum number of ...

SMSF member increase bill reintroduced

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... increase the maximum number of self-managed superannuation (SMSF) members from four to six has been reintroduced in the Senate. The bill amends the SIS Act, Corporations Act, ITAA 1997 and Superannuation (Unclaimed Money and Lost Members) Act 1999 and ...

Liberal senator slams super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... command and control - it feels like I'm sort of at a QAnon cell meeting," he said to parliament. "Not the Australian Senate, not where the adults engage in this stuff." Ayres also rejected claims industry super would become the biggest political ...

Another AMP worker recounts campaign of harassment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... career at AMP, leading several other former employees to do the same. The account from the whistleblower was read to the Senate by Senator Deborah O'Neill, with parliamentary privilege shielding the whistleblower legally. A spokesperson for O'Neill told ...

ERS scheme referred to Auditor-General

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... "The government administration of the scheme appears to have departed from this legislated purpose. Evidence given to the Senate Select Committee overseeing the government's response to COVID-19 had revealed major problems with the scheme." Jones lists ...

First Sentier bolsters board of directors

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... superannuation fund for around six years. She is also a member of the board of the St James Ethics Centre and a member of the senate for the University of Queensland. Wastcoat was also appointed to First Sentier's board in June, previously served as ...

New class action regulations slammed

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... announced by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg defining class actions as "managed investment schemes" labelling them "bizarre", as the Senate holds its second public hearing into litigation funding and the regulation of the industry. The regulations could stymie ...

Billionaires targeted in Twitter bitcoin scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more as we have it." The US Senate Committee on Commerce has requested Twitter brief the committee on the issue no later than July 23, with committee chair ...

Industry super accused of misleading consumers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... after BT was fined for using the term 'industry super'. The subject arose as Falinski questioned ASIC during the Senate Parliamentary Joint Committee, Corporations and Financial Services on its litigation against Mayfair 101. Part of ASIC's ...