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ASIC drags CommSec to court

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... Court. CommSec overcharged brokerage fees to customers on 120,933 occasions totalling $4,352,194 between August 2010 and February 2020, ASIC alleges and CommSec has admitted. CommSec and AUSIEX also allegedly failed to comply with their best execution ...

NEOS shakes up leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... including new leads for its actuary, claims and implementation departments. Kirshan Reddy joined as chief actuary in February after working at MLC Life Insurance as the head of profitability and performance reporting for over a year. He spent most of ...

CPP Investments chief steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... travel personally" to the United Arab Emirates to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The Wall Street Journal reported on February 25 that Machin travelled to the UAE for the jab; he resigned one day later following a discussion with the pension fund's board. ...

Remains of Melissa Caddick found

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
... the subject of an ongoing ASIC investigation. The human remains were discovered on a beach on the NSW South Coast on 21 February 2021. NSW Police said a group of people were walking along Bournda Beach when they located a running shoe containing human ...

ASIC takes NAB to court

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... listing it as "Incl Tfr Fee $[amount of fee]". ASIC alleges the mischarging went on from at least 20 July 2007 to 22 February 2019. In just two years before the bank finally turned them of, about 5787 NAB customers were mischarged 195,305 times to the ...

ATO begins stimulus fraud convictions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... seek to exploit the stimulus measures, we will put a stop to it and apply the full force of the law," Day said. As at February 16, $84 billion in JobKeeper payments have been made by the ATO to over a million businesses. The ATO said it has a dedicated ...

Chief economist update: Australia's virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... injected before Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's arm a day before the national roll-out on the 22nd of February this year, this 'Land Down Under' has already been returning to pre-covid normality. The latest Australian Bureau of ...

ASIC extends olive branch to inside traders

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... Maple-Brown Abbott Michael Ming Jinn Ho received a 50% discount to his sentence after he entered an early guilty plea in February to insider trading on Big Un shares and cooperated with ASIC by providing documents and interviewing with the regulator. ...

Macquarie to profit off severe weather

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... them meet the unexpected needs of their customers," Macquarie said in a statement. Macquarie previously announced on February 9 that it expected its FY21 result to be slightly down on the previous year. However, Macquarie said the short-term outlook ...

Chief economist update: The vaccine has landed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
No more tears, fears... and hopefully snap lockdowns. Today, 22 February 2021, will go down in Australian history as VAC (vaccine against covid-19) Day (although Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly and 84-year-old ...