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Another AMP worker recounts campaign of harassment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
A new whistleblower has come forward, recounting what amounts to a campaign of harassment and a derailing of her career at AMP, leading several other former employees to do the same. The account from the whistleblower was read to the Senate by Senator ...

Facebook, Google face crypto class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
Sydney-based law firm JPB Liberty has filed a class action against Facebook and Google for the losses suffered by Australian cryptocurrency providers after their bans on cryptocurrency advertising. JPB Liberty is seeking damages for the losses the cryptocurrency ...

Chief economist update: Comeback COVID

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... reading of 54.7. The manufacturing PMI slowed a tad from 51.8 to 51.7 in August. However, renewed euro strength versus the US dollar - up 3.6% this year to date and up 8.8% from its 2020 low) - amongst other challenges wrought by the virus, would increase ...

AIST calls for top-ups for low-income ERS recipients

ANNABELLE DICKSON, KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... threshold is $54,837. The AIST said a temporary approach could be to increase the co-contribution rate to $1.50 for each dollar in the 2021/22 and 2022/23 financial years. "Increasing the value of the current government co-contribution scheme will provide ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
Is this the new normal cycle? The cycle of coronavirus cycling its way around the world and infection, containment through social distancing and lockdowns, easing of restrictions, and back to infection - the second wave? This cycle hit home when the ...

Chief economist update: The wages of COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... jobs anyway). But before you wail, "the sky is falling", it is not! Sure, many of us, Australians all, have seen a lower dollar figures on their pay slips over the past quarter (cough, cough), but generally - and as the ABS wage price index report shows ...

Rejigging retirement income: First Sentier Investors

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... across all asset classes and prioritising dividend policy over value creation. "Focus on long-term income generation on a dollar basis which is what the client understands, rather than a yield basis," he said. Minbatiwala said that retirement income ...

It's your money: Hume calls out Keating

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... Stephen Jones who claimed the Liberal party is opposed to superannuation as a whole. "The Liberal's opposed every single dollar that went to superannuation. If Australia listened to the Liberals there wouldn't be a dollar saved to access during this ...

Chief economist update: The V in recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
Were it not for the "second wave" now doing the rounds in a number of cities around the world, the letter "V" would now be standing for "victory" against the war on COVID-19. The gradual easing of restrictions has unfrozen social and business activity ...

Another sentenced in ATO fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
A man has been sentenced to over seven years in jail for his role as principal conspirator in a syndicate alleged to have defrauded the Commonwealth of more than $105 million over three years. Simon Anquetil pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to ...