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CBA coughs up $5m over RC case study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
ASIC has trumped the Commonwealth Bank for failures in its AgriAdvantage Plus Package, with the Federal Court of Australia ordering the bank to cough up a $5 million penalty. On Friday, the Court found that the bank had breached the ASIC Act and Corporations ...

MLC Life names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
MLC Life has appointed a new chief executive and managing director, effective June 15. Rodney Cook has been appointed to lead MLC Life, close to six months after David Hackett departed the insurer. He will replace Sean McCormack who has been acting ...

Housing affordability improves

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
Housing affordability marginally improved during the March quarter, with the proportion of income required to meet loan repayments decreasing by 0.1%. The report comes out of industry body REIA, which found that affordability improved in NSW, Queensland ...

Advice job market not all doom and gloom

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
There are some bright spots in the market for financial advice jobs, according to Kaizen Recruitment, despite over 1000 advisers leaving the industry since the start of 2020 and only about 50 joining. "The implementation of restructures and exits announced ...

UniSuper stares down job crisis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
The industry superannuation fund for universities is the only defined benefit fund still open to new members in Australia, now it is grappling with how the sector has been decimated by COVID-19. The travel bans put in place around the world to curb ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
With wage cuts across the country and wage rises likely off the table, a former senior public servant and academic has pressed the case for wage growth instead. In an article for The Conversation, Australian National University College of Business and ...

ERS emerges as tax loophole for expats

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
The government's early release scheme has opened up a handy loophole for expats living in Australia, helping them withdraw their super balances tax-free. Normally, temporary Australian residents would face a 35% tax on the taxable component of their ...

Expats sweat as main residence CGT cut-off looms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
Already facing a rapidly approaching deadline signaling the end of exemptions from capital gains tax, expats now face further challenges in selling their former family homes, with only COVID-19 to blame. Atlas Wealth Management managing director James ...

US regulator settles with Ares

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Ares Management LLC, which has a joint venture with Challenger's Fidante Partners in Australia via a related company, has paid US$1 million to settle charges alleging it traded in a portfolio company based on non-public information while an employee ...

Receivers appointed to Mayfair 101 entity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Receivers have been appointed to Mayfair 101's IPO Wealth, with Mayfair slamming the decision by the trustee and claiming this won't harm its Dunk Island development. Vasco Trustees Limited, the trustee of IPO Wealth, advised that on 22 May ...