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Macquarie suffers first strike on pay package

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
Macquarie Group suffered its first strike against its remuneration report at the annual general meeting yesterday, with 25.4% of shareholders expressing their dissatisfaction. Macquarie Group chair Glenn Stevens told the meeting that senior leaders ...

RBA delivers 'confounding' rates decision

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
... outcome. And I think it's fair to say as well that there were millions of people who were hoping for more rate relief yesterday and didn't get it. I think all of those things are self-evident," Chalmers said. "What we've done as a government is we've ...

ASIC targets advisers, platforms, research houses in super switching scams

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... of dollars in lost or inaccessible retirement savings. ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court pointed out at a media briefing yesterday that across the value chain - from the lead generator to the financial adviser and super fund to platforms such as Macquarie ...

APRA expects 'no cutting corners' with CPS230

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... Continuity Management and SPS 232 Business Continuity Management. APRA member Therese McCarthy Hockey told a media briefing yesterday that "the way we plan to test the industry and understand their ongoing investment in this space is on a staggered three-year ...

Super funds given reprieve from Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
... Treasurer Jim Chalmers welcomed the news after confirming he had a "productive" conversation with his US counterpart yesterday. "This development on Section 899 is a really welcome one for Australians and for the Australian business and institutional ...

Inflation continues to drop, calls for RBA cut grow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... inflation in the more comprehensive and reliable quarterly CPI report in late July." Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said he was hopeful inflation data would continue to be within the RBA's target range of 2-3%. "This ...

Chalmers champions productivity, urges tax reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... progress can't be made without proper consideration of more tax reform in a speech at the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday. Productivity, he said, which is too often regarded as "a cold, almost soulless, concept," is a problem that's been with ...

Select stocks in charge of their own destiny: Aoris

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... scientific elements behind it," Aoris chief investment officer and managing director Stephen Arnold said at a roundtable yesterday. "We don't own businesses where the external environment can matter... that would include businesses with a housing cycle ...

Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... portion of its portfolio internally, speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Sydney yesterday. Combet, who succeeded Peter Costello as chair last year, said the Future Fund now has the authority to "undertake Australian ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced at the National Press Club yesterday that Treasurer Jim Chalmers will convene a roundtable in August to support and shape the government's growth and productivity agenda. Albanese said the roundtable will bring ...