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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... John Havens, fed a glut of speculation, with most reports pointing to a clash with the board over policy and perhaps compensation. LONDON - European stock markets chalked up strong gains and the euro has hit $1.30 on fresh hopes that Spain will ask for ...

Super fund backs News Corp independence push

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Super chief executive Graeme Russell. First Super will also be voting its shares against the company's executive compensation report. "We don't believe that any senior executive is worth four or five hundred times the wages paid to the employees who ...

CBA proffers Storm settlement

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and ASIC reached a settlement agreement. Up to $136 million will be offered as compensation for losses suffered by CBA customers who borrowed from the bank to invest through Storm, including CBA customers who are ...

Politics around LISC heats up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... struggle in their retirement," he said. "The rebate for low income earners making super contributions is actually compensation for the 15 per cent tax on super contributions. Without that rebate many low income earners would actually face a penalty when ...

Harsh ASIC ban on Seagrim slashed

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... said the ATT. Capital lost had been reimbursed to the Seagrim's Superannuation funds through the government-funded compensation scheme. The ATT provides independent review of a wide range of administrative decisions made by the Australian Government ...

Storm's victims counselled against settlement

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... that it would enable the banks to avoid scrutiny of their misconduct during the GFC. Levitt expects the value of the compensation claim against the banks associated with Storm to be higher than the $1 billion that ASIC has previously estimated. He says ...

Trio fraud victims demand compensation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... (VOFF) said all fraud victims should be compensated by the government. "In the Trio Capital case, VOFF are demanding compensation for all without discrimination, paid by the government," he said. Telford rejected as disingenuous claims that because they ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... third quarter of 1991. Have jobs (and some handouts), will spend. With the Gillard government distributing carbon tax compensation in May, and June and 123,400 people finding jobs in the first five months of this year alone, and the RBA lowering borrowing ...

Cold calling scammer gets 10 year ban

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... an environment where investors could feel confident when making decisions. "While victims of CIA will receive some compensation following the urgent court orders we obtained in September last year to freeze investor funds, the scam will also be shut ...

SMSF Trustees want compensation: SPAA

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... Fund professionals' Association of Australia has rejected calls for a levy to be imposed on SMSF trustees to fund a compensation scheme. In the wake of the Trio fraud there has been a misconception as to what the legal standing of SMSFs is when frauds ...