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Chief economist update: Biden cooks Donald's duck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... virus. The battle to build prosperity. The battle to secure your family's health care. The battle to achieve racial justice and root out systemic racism in this country. The battle to save the climate. The battle to restore decency, defend democracy ...

Healthcare dominates impact investing: American Century

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... sustainability as their first preference followed by improved education, mitigating poverty and racial equity and social justice. American Century vice president, head of ESG and investment stewardship Guillaume Mascotto said even though healthcare ranked ...

Rest climate case dismissed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... Mark McVeigh against the $57 billion industry super fund has been dismissed. The case was scheduled to be heard today but Justice Perram ordered that by consent the case was to be dismissed. McVeigh and Rest have been ordered to each bear their own legal ...

Federal Court freezes investment scam, winds up SMSF operator

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... corporate purpose. Naseeruddin is accused of replicating the same business model for Acquila Group, where he was a director. Justice Derrington said: "That is to say that, whilst Mr Naseeruddin and Aquila Group received funds from investors for investing ...

Derivatives issuer cops $75m penalty

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... Markets and Ozifin. AGM was ordered to pay $35 million, while OTM and Ozfin have each been ordered to pay $20 million. Justice Beach handed down the penalty following the February 2020 decision that AGM, OTM and Ozifin had engaged in "systemic unconscionable ...

Westpac puts Australia on bad banking leaderboard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Canada's Scotiabank reached settlement agreements with the US Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over charges of metals market manipulation.

Manipulative trading at J.P. Morgan costs it over $1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... forced to cough up more than $1.3 billion (US$920 million) after entering into an agreement with the US Department of Justice, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The agreements with the three government ...

J.P. Morgan set to cough up US$1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... reported by Bloomberg, the settlement - which could come as soon as this week - would squash investigations by the US Justice Department, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission into whether traders rigged ...

Adviser demands answers from Media Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... worried about his client. The client has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and lost her job with the justice system as a direct result of her PTSD. Media Super has already granted the woman access to her roughly $80,000 in retirement ...

New class action regulations slammed

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... market, he argued. "Less funding will increase the proportion that funders will charge, and there will be less access to justice because of a more limited number of funders," Morabito said. "I commend the government for wanting to protect the interests ...