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Productivity Commission recommends corporate tax cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
A new Productivity Commission (PC) proposal suggests slashing Australia's company tax rate would boost GDP by $14 billion with no net cost to the Budget over the medium term. Draft recommendations in its interim report, Creating a more dynamic and resilient ...

Australian investment in venture capital lags: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Super Members Council (SMC) has said with the right policy settings, Australia's $4.2 trillion superannuation system could jump-start productivity and generate stronger investment returns for members by better connecting capital with scientific minds ...

ASIC calls out trustees 'passing the buck' on super switching

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... Like supermarkets, while trustees are not responsible for overseeing the production, they are "expected to check that the product is fit for purpose, because you have chosen to put them on your shelves." Advice licensees, meanwhile, and their input into ...

'We're proceeding' with Div 296: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
Legislation for the government's $3 million super tax has been pushed to beyond next month's Economic Reform Roundtable, but Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the government has every intention to proceed as planned. "We're proceeding with the policy that ...

CALI launches review of Life Code

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... services to their customers, covering areas not addressed by the law including claims handling, complaints resolution and product design. "This review will ensure the Life Code continues to reflect the needs of Australians, keeps pace with changing laws ...

Adviser banned for PRP supervision failures

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... considering the clients' circumstances were not made, and there was no demonstrated need to move to another superannuation product to meet the clients' objectives. The provided projection graphs and tables also presented a "distorted comparison" of the ...

Former adviser charged over clients' near $1m loss

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... (PWI) appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court yesterday on six charges of dishonest conduct in relation to a financial product, contrary to s 1041G of the Corporations Act and one charge of the same offence committed by proxy, ASIC said. The charges ...

Sequoia resumes trading after ASX query

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... representatives of InterPrac. ASIC said certain authorised representatives of Venture Egg provided personal financial product advice to consumers who invested in the Shield Master Fund and the First Guardian Master Fund.

T. Rowe Price brings research equity strategy down under

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
The $2.6 trillion asset manager has launched its actively managed Global Structured Research Equity Strategy in Australia, complementing its existing suite of products. The fund leverages T. Rowe Price's global research platform to provide investors ...

Rest calls for super performance test reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
In its submission to the government's Economic Roundtable, Rest has called for reforms to the superannuation performance test among a range of other measures. In its submission, Rest said the superannuation performance test needs to be reformed to cater ...