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FSU campaigns against workplace surveillance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
... prohibit unnecessary surveillance of employees by companies and to ensure any surveillance is regulated. The Victorian government is currently undertaking an Inquiry into Workplace Surveillance, investigating the current state of monitoring and surveillance ...

E&P free of legacy issues, FUA jumps 26%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
... has now totally moved on," he said, calculating this will cost each adviser around $8500. Anderson blamed the federal government and the regulator for much of the debacle. This includes ASIC failing to take action against Dixon Advisory in a timely manner ...

South Africa readies 'two pot' pension system

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
... introduced, allowing individuals to access some of their retirement savings in times of need. Earlier this year, the government of South Africa passed the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill of 2023, which addresses the nation's concerns on preservations ...

Australians robbed of super savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
... playing field where employers who pay their workers' entitlements on time are undercut by those who don't. While the government has pledged to enact payday super reforms by 2026, the legislation, however, still hasn't been introduced to Parliament, and ...

Inflation eases in July

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicator rose 3.5% in the 12 months to July, down from 3.8% in June, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The most significant contributors to the annual rise were housing ...

ISPT, IFM Investors merger advances

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
The merger of IFM Investors and ISPT has moved forward as the latter's shareholders agree on the conditions of the deal. ISPT's board has notified IFM Investors that it "has elected to support a binding offer made to ISPT and their unit holders." ...

Economists hit back at RBA guidance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... economist Shane Oliver agreed that interest rates were likely to come down and added that more should be done by the government to ease inflation, rather than the RBA. "Tighter fiscal policy in the form of tax hikes and spending cuts or maybe a 1% super ...

BlackRock launches new bond ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... which enable Australian investors to add duration in a simple and low-cost way. Alongside our Australian long duration government bond exposure ALTB, we now offer investors one of the broadest ranges of Australian-listed fixed income and cash ETFs available ...

Regulators given new powers to protect financial markets in crises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2024
The government has passed legislation that will put in place new powers for regulators to protect financial market infrastructure in the event of a crisis. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the new laws will provide regulators with more powers to manage financial ...

New bill seeks to block investments involving Cbus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024
... involving Cbus. Bragg argued that Cbus' connection to the CFMEU makes it an "untenable party" with which to do government business, adding that involving the industry fund and the scandal-plagued union in the HAFF "further risks the integrity of ...