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SIV Asset Management slams bill claim

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
SIV Asset Management is currently investigating legal options with regards to a $324,000 bill received from a former subsidiary. Aurora Funds Management, which was sold by SIV in early 2015 and later bought by Keybridge Capital - who then sold it just ...

Tax breaks delivered to first home buyers

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
First home buyers will be given greater opportunities to own their own home under a new savings plan in the 2017 Federal Budget. From 1 July 2017, first home buyers will be allowed to make voluntary contributions of up to $15,000 per year and $30,000 ...

Budget for the wealthy: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Opposition leader Bill Shorten is rejecting claims Treasurer Scott Morrison's 2017-18 Budget is anything like a 'Labor Budget.' Shorten went on Twitter to say the Coalition's budget is "out of touch", as a Labor Budget wouldn't slash school funding ...

Government debt on its way to $606bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Treasurer Scott Morrison's expansionary second budget, bankrolled by government receipts rising more than 6% per annum compared to expenditure rising by 4% per annum, sets Australia on the road towards a surplus by 2020 but one supported by record Commonwealth ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
The 29th of April 2017 marked the first 100 days since Donald Trump was sworn in as chief executive of America, Inc. "Donald, you're fired!" should be what Americans tell him if poll ratings are anything to go by. In her piece on al.com, Leada Gore ...

First Super halts private equity investments

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
First Super will make no new investments in its private equity program as its existing $100 million private equity portfolio is under review. This is being done, the fund said, due to concerns about poor labour practices exhibited by companies in which ...

Media Super launches $30m revolving fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Media Super created a $30 million fund to help finance national research and development projects. The revolving fund makes loans of up to $3 million to companies undertaking research and development eligible for an R&D tax credit under the Federal ...

ASIC wins first court action for FoFA breaches

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
Corporate regulator ASIC successfully brought its first action against a licensee for breach of the Future of Financial Advice reforms in the Federal Court. Melbourne-based financial advice firm NSG Services (NSG) was found by the court to have breached ...

Gross and PIMCO settle dispute

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
Star bond manager Bill Gross has settled a law suit with former employer PIMCO, ending a 15-month legal battle. Gross, 72, sued PIMCO for $US200 million following his abrupt departure from the firm in 2014, claiming that he was forced out so colleagues ...

First Super appoints director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
The First Super board now comprises five female members following the addition of a new director. Janet Gilbert, a legal and industrial relations lawyer with the Timber Trade Industrial Association, joins the industry fund's board as an employer representative. ...