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Policymakers face significant challenge in regulating AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... investors. Implementing a rigid and complex regulatory framework is likely to impose excessive costs but do little to protect society," Hebner said. "Unfortunately, such an outcome seems highly likely given the political pressure to act, even though ...

Ireland to create new sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023
... 'stop-start' public capital investment as we have seen in the past, we must also consider the known challenges facing our society and economy. The impact from rising global temperatures as a result of climate change will affect all parts of our society," ...

ASIC flags AI regulation remit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023
... consensus on how to regulate AI - if at all. Pointing to global counterparts, the European Commission has led by proposing an AI law. It takes a risk-based approach, while prohibiting some particular forms of AI, he said. In the UK a "pro-innovation ...

Could the anti-woke movement come to Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... managers from basing investment decisions on factors like climate change. This month, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill barring state officials from investing public money to promote ESG goals, and prohibiting ESG bond sales. This ...

Pay gap bill passes, effective next year

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023
... plans for action." Aware Super chief executive Deanne Stewart commended the House of Representatives on passing the bill into law. "The gender pay gap is a stubborn beast. We've been talking about it for decades, and still, Australian women on average ...

Menopause: The silent economic crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... leave as part of a broader campaign that includes paid menstrual leave. Forming a working group with several trade unions, the law firm is pushing for the federal government to recognise the various impacts menopause can have on a woman day-to-day, particularly ...

Super, advice class actions dampen CBA results

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... and breached its trustee duties when taking out group insurance policies obtained from Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited (CMLA). It is alleged that CFSIL entered and maintained insurance policies with CMLA on terms that were less favourable ...

ANZ to pay $42m in insurance lawsuit

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... the class action against ANZ, OnePath Life, OnePath General Insurance, and QBE Insurance in 2020. A spokesperson from the law firm confirmed ANZ and its insurers will pay $42 million while QBE Insurance will pay $5 million. The bank's contribution ...

Aaron Santelises joins ART board

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2022
... service leave authority. He's also a volunteer solicitor with Caxton Legal Centre and a committee member on the Queensland Law Society's Industrial Law Committee. Commenting on the appointment, Australian Retirement Trust chair Don Luke said ...

Liberals should liberate Australians from super: Bragg

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has pulled no punches in a recently released policy manifesto titled The basis of a fair society is a strong economy, once again calling for superannuation to be voluntary for those on low incomes. "Superannuation is a significant ...
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