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More businesses fold, unpaid super recovery measure to launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... the recovery program over its lifespan," she told a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry last year. Super has not been included in the entitlements until Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced the recalibration last ...

UK forewarns Australia on wholesale test changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
... could result in channels of funding dry up. A recent Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry is considering a refresh of the entire wholesale investor test framework. According to the terms of reference, the government ...

Wholesale investor test reform has several ramifications: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... consequential impacts." On March 20, a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services launched an inquiry into the entire wholesale investor testing framework. Key facets such as application of the tests in practice, legal requirements ...

Quality of retirement does not depend on super balance: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... existing and proposed super for housing policies. Chair of the Senate Economics Committee Senator Andrew Bragg said the Inquiry was recalibrated to assess how policy could improve retirement outcomes by letting Australians use their superannuation to ...

James Mawhinney arrested as Mayfair 101 saga rolls on

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... day before he was arrested, Mawhinney published an article on the Mayfair 101 website, again calling for a Parliamentary inquiry into ASIC and its investigation of IPO Wealth Group and Mayfair 101. "The Australian Parliament needs to uncover what has ...

James Mawhinney applies to have ASIC's case struck out

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... Mawhinney said. "Mayfair 101's clients and the Australian public deserve answers. I urge Australia's Parliament to commence an inquiry." The representations which Mawhinney's lawyers have applied to strike out include the 'Bank Term Deposit Representation' ...

Wholesale investor tests up for parliamentary review

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
The federal government wants to shake up the wholesale investor tests further in launching a parliamentary inquiry into the entire framework, worrying many fund managers operating in the high-net-worth space. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations ...

Mayfair 101 regains control of assets, liquidators abandon claims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024
... ongoing investigation into him and Mayfair 101 should be discontinued. He also reiterated earlier calls for a parliamentary inquiry into ASIC. "The settlement makes clear that ASIC, the liquidators and Vasco misrepresented the affairs of the companies ...

New campaign pushes for reproductive leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... on a woman day-to-day, particularly her ability to work. The lobbying is gaining traction, with the Senate referring an inquiry into issues related to menopause and perimenopause to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs in November 2023. ...

Bragg calls for another Financial System Inquiry, critiques ASIC, APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
Senator Andrew Bragg has called for another Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to address "structural problems" in the twin peaks of financial sector regulation, ASIC and APRA. In his speech to the Financial Services Council (FSC), Bragg argued that "clear ...
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