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Regulatory inadequacy to blame: Hayne

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... Planning. He also slammed the common rhetoric within the industry that misconduct comes down to 'a few bad apples'; a defence used numerous times by AMP, CBA and Westpac in recent years. Rhetoric of this kind is common. And responses of this kind to ...

TAL partners with mental health NFP

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... Institute and the University of Sydney as part of its commitment to improving mental health outcomes. Neil Greenberg, a defence mental health professor at King's College London was recruited to help understand PTSD. This year, a partnership with ...

ClearView defends arrested director

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... support of NASFUND. The fund believes Brown did not breach any laws and also stated it will defend Brown in his "vigorous" defence of the charge brought against him. The national fraud and anti-corruption directorate of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... Government spending and investment (G) added 0.37 percentage points to growth as the Trump administration ramps up its defence and infrastructure expenditure. After subtracting 0.02 percentage points in the first quarter, net exports (X-M) added 1.06 ...

Chief economist update: The Goldilocks rate of interest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
... what markets already know and have speculated about since the US central bank's June policy meeting or in former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld words - they're known knowns. He was optimistic on growth (as he should): "Incoming data show ...

ASIC takes civil action against AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... conduct to ASIC. He was subsequently banned by ASIC in 2016. "AMP will carefully consider ASIC's pleadings and file its defence in due course. In the meantime, we will work with ASIC to agree a timetable for the progress of the proceedings," AMP said ...

New Government body to advance financial literacy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... Australia. Clitheroe will be joined on the board by former The Smith Family chief executive Elaine Henry and Australian Defence Force independent chair Air Commodore Robert Brown, both of which also sit on the board of the National Financial Literacy ...

Budget big picture: Surplus on radar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... welfare spending, the 17% increase in education spending, the 10% increase in health spending, and the 14% increase in defence spending. These expenditure increases account for 68% of the $72 billion uplift in projected outlays, slightly more than their ...

Commonwealth Super signs technology partner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... and disability benefits within the CSC's defined benefit schemes. It will also enable greater servicing of Australian Defence Force personnel entitled to benefits under ADF Cover legislation. Sonata's defined benefit capability was added just last month ...

CBA and AUSTRAC agree to mediate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... contraventions." "If an amended claim is served on us, we expect the court would set a timetable for CBA to file an amended defence. We will provide market updates as appropriate."