Andrew Bragg
Company blamed for Cbus insurance delays hits back
Cbus has partially blamed administration platform MUFG for delays in paying out life insurance claims. The group’s CEO hit back on Friday.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Superannuation
Senate committee orders Wayne Swan to explain ‘discrepancies’
Cbus’ chair will be asked to clarify “gaping holes” in his testimony last week following the release of an independent inquiry examining corporate governance failures at the fund.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Wayne Swan defends controversial CFMEU appointments to Cbus board
The super giant’s chairman was hauled before a Senate committee, where he was grilled over the governance failings engulfing the embattled fund.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Superannuation
Wayne Swan is ‘happy to be here’ at the Senate grilling he tried to avoid
He looked about as thrilled as Johnny Depp and Amber Herd in the 2016 “hostage video” delivered after they smuggled their dogs Pistol and Boo into Australia.
- by Matthew Knott
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Superannuation
Former treasurer Wayne Swan hauled to inquiry over super scandal
Anti-superannuation Liberal frontbencher Andrew Bragg will question Swan in a hearing over allegations Cbus mishandled $20 million of payouts.
- by Paul Sakkal
The tangled web that links big unions and Labor to the $3.9 trillion super sector
Some of the largest and most powerful players in the Australian economy have connections to unions and the Labor Party in their DNA.
- by James Massola
Super giant apologises for ‘unacceptable’ insurance delays
Appearing before a Senate inquiry on Thursday morning, Cbus chief executive Kristian Fok was grilled on a litany of scandals engulfing the embattled fund.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Home loans
Relaxing lending rules to help home buyers splits opinion
Rules governing mortgages are coming under fire by some groups who believe they are harming first time buyers. One idea says a change could help 50,000 people.
- by Shane Wright and Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Home loans
Should it be easier for the banks to give you a home loan?
If a range of sugar-hit policies spur fresh demand leading to higher property prices, ownership could remain beyond the reach of many Australians.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Property prices
The Coalition’s super-for-housing plan could save the budget $1b. But there’s a catch
Amid an increasingly bitter political debate over housing policy, the Coalition says its idea for people to use their super for a deposit will improve the budget bottom line.
- by Shane Wright
Ward on wrong track on trains blame game
South Coast commuters have been seeing the now five-year-delayed intercity trains run empty, on test, for many months. They are a ghost fleet.
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