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ASIC chief executive to depart

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... Joe Longo accepted a request from the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) for ASIC chief executive Warren Day to join the CDPP on secondment as the director's executive officer. Day said he will not be returning to ASIC at the conclusion ...

Netwealth's share price rises following strong inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2024
... and strong conversion rates across all segments. The group also flagged that founder Michael Heine, who stepped back from day-to-day management in October 2022 to become an executive director will now transition to a non-executive director role as he ...

Billionaire receives death penalty for embezzlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2024
A Vietnamese billionaire property developer has been sentenced to death for embezzling US$12.5 billion - the country's largest case of financial fraud, several reports show. The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City yesterday handed down the death ...

Government introduces company merger overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
Australia's merger rules will be reformed in a bid to boost competition and productivity in the economy. Treasurer Jim Chalmers and assistant minister for competition, charities, and treasury Andrew Leigh jointly stated that mergers will be approved ...

James Mawhinney arrested as Mayfair 101 saga rolls on

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... demonstrate unless (the charges) are dropped.... there may be a further action to demonstrate malicious prosecution.'" The day before he was arrested, Mawhinney published an article on the Mayfair 101 website, again calling for a Parliamentary inquiry ...

Forager schedules LIT delisting

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... Entity considers that the fund would be more appropriately operated as an open-ended, unlisted unit trust with daily (if that day is a business day) redemptions and subscriptions based on NAV," The Trust Company said. FOR traded at an average discount ...

MetLife enhances employee benefits package

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
MetLife Australia is introducing menopause, fertility, and gender affirmation leave for employees, while also extending its parental leave policy. The life insurer is rolling out a revamped benefits program for its staff, saying the new policy is designed ...

Indigenous communities reunited with $25m in lost super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... behalf of First Nations Australians that took part in the foundation's Financial Wellness Week, previously known as Big Super Day Out. "The combined success of the previous Big Super Day Out initiative and Financial Wellness Week highlights both the ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... moved to what would soon become Israel with his mother and sister; his father tragically died just weeks before the Allied D-Day invasion. When he was 15, a vocational test suggested he become a psychologist and he graduated from the Hebrew University ...

Director facing $13k fine in first of its kind action from ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced the first prosecution action against a director for failing to comply with the obligation to have a director identification number (director ID). ASIC did not name the director ...