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AUSIEX to acquire FIIG Securities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... highly sensitive client information such as names, addresses, birth date, driver's licences, passports, bank accounts, and tax file numbers. The data was then released on the dark web. The breach occurred after a FIIG employee downloaded a.zip file ...

Escala launches alternatives platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
... solutions to optimise operational workflows, including document processing, onboarding, subscriptions, performance reporting, tax management, investment calls and distributions processing, Escala said. In creating the platform, Escala is giving its clients ...

Super lobbies welcome bipartisan support to fight financial abuse

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
The federal opposition has said, if elected at the upcoming federal election, it will work to fight against financial abuse. This comes after Labor senator Katy Gallagher and minister for social services Amanda Rishworth promised to introduce new measures ...

Future Group confirms more mergers ahead, undertakes review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... behalf of 7500 members. Meantime, MLC Insurance Only is used by about 97,000 members to fund life insurance premiums in a tax-effective structure. It also has superannuation accounts with funds under management totalling about $200 million. The insurance ...

Government to 'crack down further' on financial abuse

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... to harm victims. Should the government be re-elected, the ministers said they'd seek to prevent perpetrators from using the tax and corporate systems to create debts as a form of coercive control and make perpetrators accountable for these debts if they ...

Spender criticises Labor's 'lack of urgency' on advice reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... beat a fairly well-worn path to the Assistant Treasurer's door to talk about the issues related to financial advice and tax reform, because these are issues that matter to me."

Div 296 must proceed to strengthen 'fairness' in superannuation: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... for specific reforms in the sector, including proceeding with the controversial Division 296 Bill, which aims to double the tax on super balances exceeding the $3 million threshold. The bill has been put on halt until at least after the election ; the ...

Institutional capital returns to retail real estate after hiatus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... inflation falling to 2.4% in December 2024, down from a peak of 7.8% two years earlier. The continued flow-through of income tax cuts, positive real wage growth of 0.9% per annum, and potential cuts to the official cash rate, the likelihood of which ...

DII drives life insurance disputes: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... they are unable to work due to illness or injury. APRA said DII made a turnaround in 2022 when it reported net profits after tax for five straight quarters. This followed an extended period of losses, with the sector losing $3.4 billion in the five years ...

New government must prioritise payday super: SMC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Super Members Council (SMC) is urging Australia's newly elected government to pass the payday super legislation as a matter of priority within its first 100 days in power. The council's analysis found that in 2021-22, about $5.1 billion of super went ...