Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 191 - 200 of 6438 results for "Fed"

How will Trump's tariffs impact the RBA?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... the inflation picture confronting the RBA might be a little less challenging than that confronting the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and certainly the Bank of England (BoE)," Miller said. "Australia's eschewal of retaliatory measures against US tariff impositions ...

Funeral insurer fined $4.75m

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
ACBF Funeral Plans has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay an additional $3.5 million penalty for misrepresenting that it was Aboriginal owned or managed when it was not. ACBF, a wholly owned subsidiary of Youpla Group (then ACBF Group), offered ...

James Mawhinney contravened law: Federal Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
In a win for ASIC, Mayfair 101 Group director James Mawhinney has been associated with or involved in contraventions of the law by his companies, the Federal Court determined. The contraventions concern the marketing of three products - the M+ Fixed ...

Prime Value expands microcap fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
Prime Value Asset Management is opening its Prime Value Microcap Fund to retail investors. Prime Value said the fund is a newly launched retail offering, built on the same investment strategy and managed by the same team behind the former SIV Emerging ...

AMP actions impacted 'hundreds of thousands' of customers: Shine

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
Shine Lawyers filed a class action against AMP this week alleging AMP Superannuation has slugged investors with excessive insurance fees. Shine Lawyers confirmed the class action has been filed in the Federal Court of Victoria on behalf of hundreds ...

AMP hit with multiple court filings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
AMP has been served two separate legal proceedings; one a fresh class action and the other from Dexus Funds Management. The class action - which has been lodged in the Federal Court of Victoria - has been filed against N.M. Superannuation Proprietary ...

Improved economy not a guarantee of business success

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
While Australia's chief financial officers are confident the economy has passed its low point, this doesn't necessarily stretch to their own business performance over the next 12 months. Deloitte's biannual CFO Sentiment report gathers responses from ...

Banned director sentenced for running financial services firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
A former company director has received a prison sentence after he was found to have continued to run a financial services business despite having been banned from doing so. In 2018, Joshua Fuoco was found to have engaged in misleading and deceptive ...

ASIC places travel restriction on First Guardian RE directors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
The Federal Court has granted a travel restriction order against Falcon Capital Limited directors David Anderson and Simon Selimaj, as the responsible entity of the First Guardian Master Fund, following an application from ASIC. The orders prohibit ...

Hollywood actors lobby pension fund to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
More than 200 actors have signed an open letter to the trustees of the SAG-Producers Pension Plan asking it to divest from fossil fuels and redirect the assets into responsible investments. Members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation ...