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Foreign investors face tip offs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... investment rules for residential real estate," he said. The campaign follows legislation that introduces higher infringement notice penalties for residential land valued over $5 million to support more effective enforcement, as well as new civil penalties ...

Jail time for tax adviser

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
The Federal Court has sentenced a tax adviser to seven and a half months in prison and fined him $640,000. Brisbane-based Kent Scott Hacker will spend Christmas behind bars after receiving the seven and a half months sentence. He, and his related companies ...

ASIC takes action against La Trobe Financial

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
... Financial, but the latter plans to fight the claims. The regulator has taken issue with La Trobe Financial's 90 Day Notice Account and Classic 48 Hour Account. The two funds in question have minimum investment thresholds of just $10 and allow investors ...

New heatmap shames trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
The same underperforming and costly MySuper products APRA named and shamed last year have failed members again in the latest iteration of the heatmaps. APRA is taking action on 10 MySuper products overseen by eight trustees. It will issue notices for ...

Almost 3000 advisers gone in 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... terms last year and terminated a number of practices," Macdonald said. "We knew there were about 250-300 firms they gave notice to that they were terminating, so it's not a surprise that they would be the biggest. There was another smaller group that ...

Retail fund ups premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... members," ING Living Super said. This will affect members with income protection policies for a benefit period to age 67. In a notice to members, ING said premiums for a female in a white-collar profession on a $2000 monthly benefit and 60-day waiting ...

Chief economist update: East and west at crossroads

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... government to: "Just shut up for a while. Every time someone says something, it just makes it worse." Or as Bruce Lee said: "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

New AMP Australia chief executive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... high-quality work that Blair Vernon has performed in his four months as Acting CEO. Blair stepped into the role at short notice and has been decisive in keeping our transformation activity moving and managing the complex legacy issues of the business. ...

US regulator, states sue Facebook

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... prohibited from imposing anti-competitive conditions on software developers and for Facebook to be required to seek prior notice and approval for all future mergers and acquisitions. "For nearly a decade, Facebook has used its dominance and monopoly ...

Key advice reforms tabled

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... changes to the annual renewal arrangements in response to concerns raised by the FPA in relation to the annual renewal notice and anniversary date operation," he said. "These changes demonstrate positive outcomes achieved for financial planners by the ...