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MUFG chief executive Vivek Bhatia.

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.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey

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Cbus, chaired by Wayne Swan (left), was unable to demonstrate its controversial relationship with the CFMEU (pictured right, former Victorian CFMEU secretary John Setka) was in members’ best financial interest.

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.  

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Wayne Swan appeared before a Senate committee on Friday morning.

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.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Wayne Swan gives evidence to the Senate economics references committee on Friday.

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.

  • Matthew Knott
Cbus chairman Wayne Swan has blasted critics of industry super funds.

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.

  • Paul Sakkal
Wayne Swan, Paddy Crulin, Nicola Roxon and Angrisano are among the many superannuation fund directors with labour connections.

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.

  • James Massola
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Cbus chairman Wayne Swan

Cbus scandal revives ghosts of banking royal commission

The allegations against one of the country’s biggest superannuation funds is politically explosive and hugely embarrassing for one of the so-called gamekeepers of governance.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Kristian Fok

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.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
ASIC is taking action against Cbus, chaired by former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan.

Super funds warned over delays in assessing life insurance claims

ASIC believes the scale of alleged failings at $94-billion super fund Cbus are a broader industry issue, and it’s flagged there could be more “enforcement action to follow”.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey and Clancy Yeates
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‘Lifters, not leaners’: Analysing 123 years of Australia’s budget speeches

We’ve used artificial intelligence to analyse one million words from 124 budget speeches from 40 treasurers since 1901. Here’s what we found.

  • Shane Wright, Matt Malishev and The Visual Stories Team

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