One super fund’s efforts to properly serve remote Indigenous customers sparked a national change – which has helped women fleeing domestic violence and those who’ve lost everything in a flood or fire.
Getting good advice can pay for itself many times over. But how do you find it? And what questions should you ask before signing up with a financial adviser?
On Friday the government will receive a report likely to recommend a requirement for advice in a client’s “best interests” be replaced with a requirement to give mere “good advice”.
The royal commission wanted the corporate cop to first ask ‘why not litigate?’. The treasurer’s new guidelines suggest it should instead ask ‘why not negotiate?’.
In the 1700s ‘burial clubs’ emerged in response to fears of funeral poverty. These schemes persist today — along with marketing targeting the poor and vulnerable.
Businesses are reluctant to invest, but that might be because they know what they are doing.
Westpac is “deeply sorry” and has pledged to spend $18 million over three years tackling the online sexual exploitation of children in the Philippines.
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The number one commandment of the anti money laundering law is “Know your customer”. AUSTRAC is alleging Westpac didn’t, and didn’t seem to want to.
Australia’s anti-money-laundering agency has accused Westpac’s senior management, including chief executive Brian Hartzer, of indifference to the bank’s anti-money-laundering obligations.
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It’s no wonder corporate wrongdoing occurs when the profits from wrongdoing outweigh the costs of being caught and punished.
Josh Adams of Wales scores one of four tries during the Rugby World Cup match between Wales and Fiji on Wednesday. They earned Wales a bonus point.
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Executive Director, Australian Institute of Performance Sciences, and Industry Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy and Governance at, University of Technology Sydney