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Payday Super penalties ramped up ahead of legislation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... Unions also urged the government to introduce legislation swiftly, with ACTU president Michele O'Neil saying: "Every dollar in workers' super accounts is essential to ensuring that they can afford to retire in dignity. More regular employer super ...

Genetic test results to no longer hinder life cover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
... moratorium. Concerns raised included insurers still requesting test results regardless of whether applications fell below the dollar-based thresholds, and the fact the moratorium is industry-led and lacks government oversight. Lead author of the report ...

Advisers add 5.7% premium

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024
... also behavioural coaches who help clients. "Advisers' practical support also helped clients maintain strategies like dollar cost averaging as rising inflation cut their disposable income," he said. Advisers' value add has decreased by 0.20% from ...

More to do in the fight against inflation: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
The government is rolling out a host of measures to provide cost-of-living relief to Australians. As previously flagged in the Budget, from this month the government will provide more help for renters, pensioners and reduce the cost of medicines for ...

Former Courtenay House director sentenced

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
... The Courtenay House companies appointed liquidators on 16 May 2017 and have since distributed dividends of $0.28 in the dollar. The liquidation process is ongoing.

ASIC wins case against crypto exchange Kraken

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
ASIC has won its case against Bit Trade, the operator of Kraken in Australia, after the crypto exchange was found to have not complied with design and distribution obligations when offering a margin trading product to its customers. Bit Trade's ...

BlackRock launches new bond ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... restored. Therefore, ULTB could be a very useful tool for portfolio diversification," Stats said. "Hedged to the Australian dollar, ULTB also offers Australian investors an additional layer of stability without having to weather the ups and downs of ...

ASIC project foils scammers' operations

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
A year into its investment scam disruption project, ASIC has taken down more than 7300 phishing and investment scam websites. This includes the removal of 5530 fake investment platform scams since July 2023. It has also seen the closure of 1065 phishing ...

APRA reprimands Cbus, BUSSQ over governance issues

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
APRA has imposed additional licence conditions on Cbus and BUSSQ over governance concerns in the wake of the CFMEU scandal. The prudential regulator's additional licence conditions stipulate that Cbus' trustee, United Super, and BUSSQ bring ...

Investors brace for turbulence as Biden backs out

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... deregulation, higher tariffs, and infrastructure spending. "The impact of these policies on the markets included a rising dollar, higher bond yields, specific sectors like banking, healthcare, energy, and industrials seeing gains due to deregulation ...