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RBA to meet for final 2024 rate decision

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
... "sustainably" within the RBA's range. The research found that the tax cuts - which were implemented to offer cost of living relief and support stretched households - appear to have gone towards paying down consumer debts and mortgages, rather than increased ...

MLC trustees to pay $65m in MySuper class action settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... will provide fund members with a welcome boost to their retirement incomes. This will hopefully provide some much-welcomed relief to superannuation members who - like all Australians - are struggling with the rising cost of living." If the settlement ...

GDP grows but still slow: 'Confirms our worst fears'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... rose by 1.4%. Keenan said social benefits paid to households increased this quarter as households received energy cost relief rebates. "At the Commonwealth level growth in social benefits to households was lower, including NDIS and Aged care, compared ...

HPI calls Hostplus, Charter Hall takeover 'cheap'

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... This has been pushed back to December 17, replacing the December 3 deadline. Charter Hall said it sought and obtained ASIC relief so that it could vary the terms in this way. "This variation has the effect of accelerating the period for payment of the ...

ASIC sues NAB for failing customers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... advise them of the decision within specified timeframes. Longo said that ASIC had seen an increase in customers seeking relief from lenders as cost-of-living pressures have risen. "We have seen first-hand the impact on lives and livelihoods when lenders ...

CSLR warns adviser levy will balloon

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... of sophisticated investor​; and failure to follow instructions​ and act in clients' best interest. Separately, a relief that allows financial advisers to rely on website disclosure information instead of providing a Financial Services Guide (FSG) ...

Inflation debate: Albo says rebates will keep inflation down

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
... as having a material impact on the CPI figures. The ABS data found that the combined impact of Commonwealth Energy Bill Relief rebates and state government rebates drove a 17.9% drop - the largest fall in electricity prices on record. "The falls in electricity ...

Inflation cools but RBA unlikely to budge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... electricity (-17.9%) were significant moderators of annual inflation for the month as a result of Commonwealth Energy Bill Relief Fund rebates. "The falls in electricity and fuel had a significant impact on the annual CPI measure this month", ABS head ...

ASIC extends two advice instruments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
ASIC has extended the reportable situations relief and personal advice record keeping requirement instruments for another five years. The regulator has established ASIC Corporations and Credit (Breach Reporting-Reportable Situations) Instrument 2024/620 ...

ASIC updates and reissues RG 121

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... which was issued in June 2013. ASIC said RG 121 has been reissued to remove references to expired or repealed AFS licensing relief, including class relief granted by ASIC to foreign financial services providers and foreign collective investment schemes. ...