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350 tax practitioners under investigation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... Board chief executive Michael O'Neill said in some of the cases that have already been considered the board handed down heavy sanctions. "Of eight cases investigated under the debt and lodgement project, five tax practitioners had their registrations ...

Industry funds could solve energy crisis: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... Australia's ageing energy infrastructure continues to fall further and further behind the rest of the world. Much of the heavy industry has already gone, costing jobs and driving power costs up even further," Anthony said. "The failure to achieve ...

Chief economist update: BOE lets peers do the heavy lifting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... downward momentum in global economic growth that would lift all boats, including the UK. The BOE's letting its peers do the heavy lifting while it tries to restore monetary policy back to normal.

Macquarie, Aberdeen Standard team up for Thames tunnel

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
A consortium of global infrastructure heavyweights including Macquarie Capital and Aberdeen Standard Investments will build a £1 billion tunnel under the River Thames. The RiverLinx consortium has been selected by Transport for London (TfL) to design ...

CBA down, industry up for employment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... there are several factors that impact this. "It is not necessarily a sector where a lot of people want to work. It has some heavy competition from sectors where the awareness is not so high but the willingness to work in the sector is not as high," he ...

NZ$5 trillion investor group supports Christchurch Call

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... Australian government already passed new social media laws as a response to the Christchurch attack. The new laws impose heavy fines, make reporting "violent and abhorrent content" to the Australian Federal Police mandatory and could see social media ...

Chief economist update: Countdown to T-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... index is still 11.8% on the up; and China's CSE 300 index remains close to a bull market - up 19.6% - in spite of the heavy sell-off over the past few days. But as Murphy's Law dictates, "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". Not only could ...

Wealth heavyweights join FSC board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
Some big names in wealth management have joined the board of the Financial Services Council, including from AMP and Challenger. AMP chief executive, wealth management Alex Wade, Challenger chief financial officer Andrew Tobin and Jason Yetton - who ...

Banks move to derisk, workforces shrink

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... Ben Ong says. But super funds have incentive to stay in bank stocks and the purchasing power to buy more. "It is the same heavy weighting that, however, would prevent funds, particularly index funds, from dumping bank and financial services stocks from ...

Jamieson Coote Bonds introduces global fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... emerging markets currencies and seems deeply intertwined with the performance of the Chinese economy, given Australia's heavy reliance on China as a major trade partner." JCB said it has actively managed its global strategy since February 2018. Its ...