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US, China trade truce 'welcome' news for Australia: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
The United States and China have agreed to a temporary easing of trade tensions for a 90-day period. The move will see US tariffs on Chinese imports drop from 145% to 30%, while China will cut duties on American goods from 125% to 10%. While welcome ...

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... Trump's pullback from the Liberation Day announcements as soon as "the bond market started going peculiar." One piece of good news, though, is that in the long run White thinks Trump will be "less disruptive economically than one fears at the moment ...

Ascent Investment mastermind cops 33 criminal charges

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... Criminal Code 1913 (WA). These amounted to more than $4 million in investor funds. Five counts relate to failing to act in good faith under section 184 of the Corporations Act 2001, amounting to about $2.5 million of investor money. Another five counts ...

Industry bodies call for delay to Payday Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... Ensure the severity of penalties considers whether shortfalls in payments are accidental or deliberate. Allow employers with a good compliance history to make voluntary disclosures of historical shortfalls without penalty and to remediate 'honest ...

Fed holds rates, but RBA still poised for a cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... 25 basis point cut when the board meets towards the end of this month. "The March quarter consumer price index (CPI) was a good enough result for a 25 bp policy rate cut at the next RBA meeting on May 19-20, but that is about it," Miller said. "...expectations ...

The top Australian small-cap fund, year after year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... co-founder] Stephen [Ng], we discuss it, and then work out the weight. It's just rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat - at a good cadence," he said.

No US recession priced in yet: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
UniSuper head of fixed interest David Colosimo said while US President Donald Trump's tariffs have caused a great deal of uncertainty, a recession in the US may not be on the cards - yet. "I think in the immediate aftermath of the tariff announcement ...

Hedge fund scraps local sales role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... "Whilst my golf handicap has not improved, the time with my family has been invaluable. As they say in the classics, all good things must come to an end and I am keen to explore new opportunities and challenges," he posted on LinkedIn. As for Mitchell ...

Federal Court hammers defunct advice firm with $11m penalty

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
Defunct advice firm Equiti Financial Services, since renamed DOD Bookkeeping, which has been placed into liquidation, has been slammed with an $11.03 million penalty for providing "cookie cutter" advice and breaching conflicted remuneration laws. Equiti ...

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

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... important," she said. "We have already been engaging with the Assistant Treasurer on this issue. [The CSLR] is there for a good reason; to compensate losses incurred by clients of poor financial advice. "However, this is the textbook case of moral hazard ...