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Cbus lacks stringent director, expenditure policies: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... requirements to the declaration, including media searches to identify concerns about the director's character, in addition to federal police and insolvency checks. It also suggested Cbus introduce a formal mechanism for rejecting director nominations ...

Firms treat CSLR as 'insurance policy': FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... government relations and policy George John is hopeful that the committee will report by the designated date. However, if the federal election is called before May, the inquiry lapses. "The calling of the election is when parliament is suspended and ...

$3m super tax faces axe, pushed to 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... superannuation tax last week may well see the measure abandoned. The Division 296 tax could be shelved until after the next federal election, missing out on the opportunity to pass during the final parliamentary sitting of the year. Neo Super head of ...

Illegal investment scheme operator to pay $1.25m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
The Federal Court has ordered Sasha Hopkins to pay $1.25 million and be disqualified for four years, in proceedings brought by ASIC. The court also ordered that The A Team Property Group, five of the investment schemes and associated companies be wound ...

BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard sued over climate stance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... laws and caused reduced coal production and higher energy prices. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a case with the Federal Court in Tyler, Texas, claiming the institutions "conspired to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive ...

SMSFs surpass $1tn milestone

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2024
... lower house last month, was on its way to the Senate only to be reported that it could be shelved until after the next federal election. "It appears the government has come to the realisation that they don't have the support of the Senate cross bench ...

Inconsistencies abound in Future Fund mandate change: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... changes "appears elusive." "Reform should seek to bring change. But the explanations of these reforms - from both the federal government and the Future Fund - have restated that, ultimately, the risk, return, independence, strategy, portfolio and role ...

$3m super tax faces uncertain future

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... million superannuation tax, which was expected to come into effect 1 July 2025, could be shelved until after the next federal election. SMSFA chief executive Peter Burgess said the proposed tax is "deeply flawed" and would come with many unintended consequences. ...

Former Western AM investment chief charged for 'cherry-picking'

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... favoured and disfavoured portfolios. The SEC has since charged Leech with violating antifraud and other provisions of the federal securities laws. In light of the SEC's effort, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has also announced ...

Swan tells Bragg he won't front parliament

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... hear from Swan." Bragg has been questioning the relationship between Swan and Chalmers since the Labor government won the Federal election in 2022.