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Former adviser cops eight-year ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... pleaded guilty for dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception for his role in an illegal retail superannuation scheme. Saad pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining financial advantage by deception and one count of attempting to obtain financial ...

KPMG recommends super changes

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
KPMG says SG contributions should be included in the Commonwealth Paid Parental Scheme, among three recommendations to level the gender gap in the workforce. Its recently published paper Towards a more equal sharing of work says since the 1970s, the ...

Retail funds take out MySuper performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... Super balanced (8.9%). The industry funds followed with AustralianSuper balanced achieving 8.6%, while LGS Accumulation Scheme - High Growth, Mine Super aggressive and retail fund BT MySuper Lifestage 1980s all returned 8.5%. Over one year, eight of ...

ATO seeks IT contractors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
The Australian Taxation Office will approach the market for three major managed services contracts, as it looks to refresh its IT systems. The ATO will look for contractors in: centralised computing; ender user technology, and enterprise service management ...

MIRA to acquire waste management firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... $3.50 per share. BINGO managing director Daniel Tartak and the board are urging shareholders to unanimously approve the scheme announced today in the absence of a superior offer. Shareholders will be given the opportunity to vote in July. BINGO chair ...

Clime appoints new chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... cash profit and operational targets. She will also receive 400,000 Clime shares immediately under the Employee Incentive Scheme. Bristow was paid a total of $572,995 in FY20, up from $511,276 the year before. The 2020 salary included a base salary of ...

Former adviser pleads guilty over million-dollar super theft

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... being charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception for his role in an illegal retail superannuation scheme. ASIC alleges that Saad, while working as an authorised representative of Apogee Financial Planning, illegally obtained ...

ERS spending revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... finances in the months following the introduction of COVID-19 related restrictions. "We found that for people who accessed the scheme twice, the average total amount withdrawn was $17,441. The average single withdrawal was $7728 for the first opportunity ...

Mainstream moves forward with SS&C

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
Mainstream is pursuing a scheme of arrangement with SS&C Technologies Holdings after Vistra missed its deadline to match or provide a superior offer. The Mainstream board unanimously recommends the SS&C proposal on the basis that it is a superior offer ...

Bernie Madoff dies in prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
The architect of the largest Ponzi scheme in US history has died in prison aged 82. Bernie Madoff had been serving his sentence at FMC Butner, an administrative security federal medical centre for male offenders located in North Carolina, at the time ...