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Terminally ill woman questions superannuation early release laws

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... who said he was "appalled" by Penny's situation, adding that he was "happy to ring the minister personally to make sure justice is done and she is treated fairly." In a reader poll carried out by the Fraser Coast Chronicle, 77% of readers said laws should ...

SPAA approves government's response to Trio reports

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... chief executive Mark Rantall said. "We also support recommendations that address our concerns about better access and justice in compensation for poor financial advice and more importantly poor financial products." On Friday, the Minister for Financial ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... gained 0.8 per cent. Anheuser-Busch InBev rose 1.7 per cent after announcing it reached an agreement in principle with the Justice Department that will allow its acquisition of the remaining stake in Grupo Modelo to go through. The revised transaction ...

ASIC slaps biggest fine ever

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... Hobbs either "personally chose" or "implicitly approved" the other individuals who operated the scheme with him. Yesterday Justice Ward said that Hobbs' scheme targeted unsophisticated investors, tricking them into thinking they would get rich quick ...

CalPERS cry foul play, backs lawsuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... government's civil lawsuit against credit rating agency Standard & Poor's Rating Services. Early this month, the US Department of Justice sued the agency for fraud in relation to the rating of mortgage-backed securities in the years leading up to the ...

NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... duty. Apart from that claim against LGFS, a subsidiary of the NSW Local Government Superannuation Scheme, Federal Court Justice Jayne Jagot said damages should be split evenly between ABN Amro, Standard & Poor's and LGFS. Speaking on the court decision ...

Abbott government to index military pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... military retirement pensions if elected next year. "An incoming coalition government would finally offer a measure of justice to ex-service personnel by properly indexing defence pensions and would deliver this in our first budget," he said. The announcement ...

ASIC civil case a dead duck: Storm founders

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... their director's duties in addition to disqualification from managing a company and holding a financial services licence. Justice Reeves is yet to decide on the Cassimatis' application for dismissal of the ASIC civil action. Last week Commonwealth Bank ...

Judgment reserved for accused Ponzi head

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... funds they in fact comprised one scheme. The trial began on July 4 and finished last Wednesday with no indication of when Justice Ward will announce the decision. ASIC said more than 700 Australians had invested more than US$42m in the funds since 2002. ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... concluded that the laws that were challenged, with high probability, do not violate the constitution," declared chief justice Andreas Vosskuhle. Germany could now legally participate in the a,-500 billion ESM permanent rescue fund. However, this would ...