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Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... Fund (IMF) categorises fossil-fuel subsidies into explicit and implicit forms. Explicit subsidies are direct government payments or tax breaks that lower the cost of fossil-fuel production or consumption, while implicit subsidies arise from under-pricing ...

State insurer names new CIO as government review looms

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... solely on long-term growth, ACC must balance the need for returns with maintaining sufficient liquidity for ongoing claim payments. The appointment comes as the New Zealand government reviews the state insurer. The Kiwi government commissioned Willis ...

FX expert jumps from Insight to HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... forex specialist spent 15 years at Principal Global Investors as head of passive currency and chief dealer and as head of payments and FX at trading platform AXIchain. He was also manager of treasury sales for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Australia ...

Permanent disablement claims for mental health explodes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... day, it's Australian taxpayers who'll be footing the bill if these trends continue as government safety nets and payments are stretched beyond capacity," Cupitt said.

ASX100 slavery disclosure strong

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Tinto, Lendlease, Evolution Mining, South32 and Mirvac. In a six-level ranking system, fund manager Janus Henderson, payments tech Block Inc (formerly Square), and retail giant Harvey Norman all scored an 'F' grade being the sixth lowest ranking. ...

World Bank exit policy gets thumbs up from local experts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... debt investments with complaints attached were exited early; 88% of these were IFC cancellations or client-initiated pre-payments. The bank did not even consistently record why exit decisions were made, although 30% of complaint-linked exits cited environmental ...

Cbus board still considering CFMEU directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... responded. Bragg went on to question the $5.8 million Cbus has paid to the union in recent years, with Fok clarifying the payments are for several things including director payments, the partnerships program the fund operates and more. "What I will say ...

Parental leave super narrows gender savings gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... contributions paid alongside government-funded parental leave entitlements passed parliament this week. Parents receiving payments from the Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave scheme will begin receiving Superannuation Guarantee contributions from 1 July ...

Super on parental leave bill hits parliament

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... announcement in March that it would begin paying Superannuation Guarantee (SG) contributions alongside the parental leave payments. Under the legislation, those who take paid parental leave will accumulate SG contributions on the income paid by the government ...

Philanthropic donations under scrutiny

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... clear that Australia needs more transparency around political spending, political contributions, real-time disclosure of payments to parties, and lowering the threshold at which those payments have to be disclosed. "At the moment, it can be up to 18 ...
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