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Cbus delivered last blow before RC interim report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
Cbus' culture and senior executive Maria Butera's conduct have again been criticised by the Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption and Governance, following the improper leaking of member data and allegations of perjury. ...

Murray takes aim at industry culture

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
Former Commonwealth Bank boss David Murray has taken aim at the culture of the financial services industry, arguing there is an 'established mythology' of distrust that must be addressed. Speaking at an event in Sydney yesterday, Murray said that post ...

Adviser jailed for two years over $1.5M fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
A former Perth-based financial adviser has been jailed for two years for stealing almost $1.5 million worth of shares. Michael King was made eligible for parole, but the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner John Price ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
You wouldn't miss it even if you tried. Markit Economics did a dump - a dump of fresh PMI data, that is - but after a brief knee-jerk reaction from the financial markets, everything went back to where they were. As they should. This is because the November ...

Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The government will continue with its quest to push through amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms despite last night's crushing defeat in the Senate. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told ABC Radio this morning that the government ...

SEC imposes US$4.16bn in penalties

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
The US corporate regulator, the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), won orders for and imposed US$4.16 billion in penalties and disgorgements last year. In its 2013-14 annual report the SEC stated these penalties and disgorgements arose from ...

Cbus executive denies perjury allegation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
Cbus' head of workplace distribution Maria Butera has denied she committed perjury at the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption, contradicting claims made by Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission, Jeremy Stoljar SC. In his submission ...

Japan did it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
How many Prime Ministers does it take to fix the Japanese economy? Sixteen... and is still counting. That's the number of times Japan has changed its leader since 1990 when the economy did a Humpty Dumpty. Twenty four years on and all 16 kings - and ...

Prosecution drops charges against Storm adviser

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has withdrawn its charge against former Storm Financial adviser Walter John Fullerton-Smith, following the death of a key witness. Fullerton-Smith faced a charge of making a false or misleading statement ...

Minto re-elected as ASFA board chair

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014