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Productivity Commission tasked with five new inquiries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... Chalmers added that the new inquiries will have a focus on practical reforms and their implementation, as well as detailed policy insights. The inquiries will run for 12 months, with preliminary recommendations for productivity-enhancing reforms due ...

Crypto operator to fork out millions after court ruling

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
Bit Trade, the operator of the Kraken Exchange in Australia, has been slapped with an $8 million fine for "unlawfully issuing a credit facility to more than 1100 customers." Bit Trade offered a "margin extension" product, which allowed payments to be ...

Anne Fuchs takes on new role at ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... guidance and education work. The portfolio includes strategic communications, media relations, government relations and policy, and corporate and social responsibility. In the new role, Fuchs will report to the chief enterprise services officer Julie ...

Super moves: Future Fund, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... data collection, analysis, and publication of state-based health prevention programs. Before that, she was a research and policy analyst at the Mitchell Institute for education and health consulting role, which combined research and analytic skills to ...

AMP nabs Mercer wealth manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... solutions that differentiate AMP Super and AMP Investments. Reece came on board as general manager of risk, compliance, and policy. Allmey is one of several investment professionals who moved from BT to Mercer Australia as part of the sale of BT Super ...

Active Super transfers members to Challenger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
... Guaranteed Income product, launched in July 2016, was developed in partnership with Challenger and is already invested in a life policy issued to Active Super by Challenger Life. According to APRA data, about 190 members currently hold the product, with ...

MLC Life and Resolution Life Australasia to merge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
MLC Life Insurance and Resolution Life Australasia are set to merge, creating one of Australia's largest life insurance businesses. Nippon Life Insurance - MLC's parent company - announced it will acquire 100% of Resolution Life. As a result ...

RBA 'paves way' for February rate cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
... Commonwealth Bank head of Australian economics Gareth Aird agreed that a February rate cut seems feasible. "Once again monetary policy was characterised as 'restrictive'. The implication is that as the board becomes increasingly confident that inflation ...

Top superannuation policy priorities for 2025: SMC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
Super Members Council (SMC) has set out its key policy priorities in 2025 to further strengthen the superannuation system. The advocacy group, which represents over 11 million people, has called for no changes to the superannuation system's fundamental ...

Superannuation tax shakeup proposed by Actuaries Institute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
... distinction between the tax treatments currently applied to concessional and non-concessional contributions. Under current policy settings, contributions are classified as concessional or non-concessional, subject to annual limits, and treated differently ...