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Business tax expanded to big corporates

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
The government has expanded its temporary tax write-off measure to include businesses with turnover over $5 billion. Businesses with aggregated turnover over $5 billion due to income from overseas that have invested $100 million intangible depreciating ...

Aussie dividends lag on global stage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
Global dividends took an 11% hit, falling $76.7 billion in the third quarter with the weakest results coming from Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands, according to Janus Henderson. The Global Dividend Index revealed Australian dividends suffered ...

Kogan execs chase big bonuses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
Online retailer Kogan, which has recently expanded into superannuation, has faced shareholder revolt over the bonuses it wants to pay its executives. Kogan was one of the few businesses to relatively benefit from COVID-19, thanks to an uptick in online ...

Elanor sells mall for $130m

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
The Elanor Retail Property Fund (ERF) has sold a retail property for $129.5 million to SCA Property Group, which is nearly double of its purchase price from five years ago. ERF sold 100% of its interest in Auburn Central, a shopping mall in Western ...

AMP Capital shutters Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
AMP Capital has decided to close its 19-year old sustainable share fund, after its portfolio managers Genevieve Murray and Emily Woodland announced their resignations in August. In a notice sent to investors on Friday, AMP Capital attributed the closure ...

Industry fund slashes admin fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
A $13 billion superannuation fund has slashed its administration fees by a third. LGIAsuper members will pay less administration fees - from $1.50 per week or $78 per year to $1 a week or $52 per year starting this month. LGIAsuper chief executive Kate ...

ESG push not going anywhere

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Close to 90% of investors globally are asking their fund manager for environmental, social and governance (ESG) products, according to the 2020 EY Global Alternative Fund Survey. According to the survey, allocators are increasingly focused on ESG products ...

APRA eases hard caps in revamped executive pay

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
A new draft of APRA's remuneration guidelines has scrapped its original plan to cap financial measures' contribution to executives' variable remuneration at 50%. Instead the boards will be able to assign a "material weight" to how much of ...

Audit inquiry overlooks vertical integration

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
An inquiry into the quality of audits has fallen short of recommending the breakup of the largest four vertically integrated accounting firms in a bid to combat conflicts of interest. The Regulation of Auditing in Australia: Final Report, tabled in ...

Barrenjoey Capital hires from FIIG

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
The newly-launched, Magellan-backed investment bank has added a head of credit risk from FIIG Securities. Asmita Kulkarni left the role of director, investment strategy group at FIIG to join the new venture established by former Challenger managing ...