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FEATURE | Emerging markets: Twists and turns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
... imposed limitations on air-conditioning usage for government workers. He recently suspended fuel tax excise on liquified petroleum gas and kerosene and implemented temporary work-from-home arrangements for private companies. The Philippines' crude ...

Kenya to establish sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... infrastructure investment priorities; and build a savings base for future generations when the nation's minerals and petroleum resources are exhausted. It will be seeded with $2.3 billion (Ksh200bn) in capital. In relation to strategic infrastructure ...

ASIC sues Fiducian for ESG failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... the fund held investments contrary to the representations made in the PDS, such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Woodside Petroleum, Newcrest Mining and Orica. ASIC also alleges the PDS of the fund contained false and misleading statements that it would monitor ...

Praemium names interim CFO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... financial officer role from March 2022. Prior to that he held the same role at IOOF for more than 12 years and United Petroleum for just under a year. He steps down on March 7. Moore's experience covers finance, strategy and mergers and acquisitions ...

Praemium hunts for new chief financial officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... financial officer role since March 2022. Prior to that he held the same role at IOOF for more than 12 years and United Petroleum for just under a year. "I would like to thank David for his contribution to Praemium and the work to restructure and align ...

Treasury flags $23bn in CGT benefits

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... share of tax here in Australia, encouraging investment in important areas like housing and clean energy, reforms to the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax that will see the offshore LNG industry pay more tax, sooner, and improving tax compliance," Chalmers ...

Netwealth FUA soars, names new chief financial officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
... services and other sectors. He has acted as the chief financial officer of RMS Cloud, Catapult Sports, SXiQ Digital, United Petroleum and Interactive. Netwealth said he has a proven track record as a collaborative business partner delivering high-margin ...

Tax miners, major corporates to tackle housing shortage: CFMEU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023
... able to carry losses forward. Still, it said taxes of this kind can still raise significant revenue. For example, the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax is paid by fewer than 14 companies each year but, following some recent tweaks, is expected to raise about ...

ASIC permanently bans David Sutton

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
... failed to exercise his power and discharge his duty with care and diligence in relation to his directorships of Paltar Petroleum and Aus Streaming. Sutton was also involved in and facilitated misconduct by Kristofer Ridgway, a former financial adviser ...

Australia-UK FTA a boon for local business

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... services. As for imports, personal travel (excluding education) services top the list at $144.8 billion, followed by refined petroleum at $25.3 billion and passenger motor vehicles worth $22.4 billion. Commenting on the FTA, Australian Chamber of Commerce ...
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