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Crescent Foundation partnership to mentor refugees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... substantial resources to this cause. "We hope our support of Deakin University will encourage other private sector corporations and institutions to come forward to help facilitate the inclusion of refugees into the workplace and break through the canvas ...

Chances of CBA admitting to Essential Super wrongdoing "non-existent"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... Essential Super as a result of the distribution agreement, which ASIC believes amounts to a contravention of the Corporations Act's ban on conflicted remuneration. ASIC said the arrangements could reasonably be expected to influence the choice of ...

APRA closes Westpac probe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... conducting its own investigation into whether the conduct giving rise to the allegations amounted to contraventions of the Corporations Act. APRA said the delegation was done to avoid both agencies separately investigating and potentially litigating ...

Court makes orders in ASIC versus TAL

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... declarations about aspects of TAL's conduct it saw as misleading, deceptive and in contraventions of the ASIC Act, Corporations Act and Insurance Contracts Act. The court documents also show in January 2021, TAL's lawyers Gilbert+Tobin argued ...

ASIC pursues criminal charges in super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... its actions against Rest and Statewide Super, ASIC is seeking pecuniary penalties, alleging the funds breached the Corporations Act and ASIC Act. In December 2020, the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Bill was passed, delaying ...

Dover, McMaster hit with $1.4m penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
... ASIC's claims that from around 25 September 2015 to around 30 March 2018, Dover breached several sections of the Corporations Act because the policy contained a clause that did not provide the maximum protection available to clients, and instead ...

ASIC takes Statewide Super to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... since November 2018 the leadership team knew it was to determine whether the issue was reportable to ASIC under the Corporations Act. ASIC says that deducting premiums for cancelled insurance cover deprived the impacted members of the value of the premiums ...

ASIC drags CommSec to court

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... systemic compliance failures at the trading platform and that CommSec and AUSIEX breached the market integrity rules, Corporations Act and ASIC Act. ASIC alleges the conduct spanned a significant period of time and involved failures across multiple systems ...

ASIC extends olive branch to inside traders

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecution (CDPP) on criminal immunity. This is for some contraventions of the Corporations Act. It has set up a hotline (+612 9911 5008), an email ( [email protected] ) and an online form for people to report. ...

Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... will be made permanent. In May 2020, the government announced the temporary measures, modifying provisions under Corporations Act section 674, relaxing a listed company's decision on continuous disclosures that will not attract liability unless there ...