Lucas Baird
Reporter at Australian Financial Review
Brimming with unearned self-confidence | No relation to Mike/Julia | financial services + breaking news for @FinancialReview | [email protected]
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1 week ago |
afr.com | Lucas Baird |Jessica Gardner
Sydney/Washington | Australian companies and superannuation funds in the United States have secured a 12-month reprieve from punitive new taxes that would dramatically increase their costs after Republicans watered down core parts of Donald Trump’s so-called “big beautiful bill”.
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1 week ago |
afr.com | Patrick Durkin |Lucas Baird
The take-home pay of the country’s top 100 chief executives has largely flatlined over the past decade, pushed lower by a slump in multimillion-dollar golden parachutes, research commissioned by super funds shows. The highest-paid chief executive in Australia was outside the ASX 100 – Victor Herrero, recently departed from Lovisa, the fast-fashion jewellery chain backed by billionaire Brett Blundy.
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1 week ago |
afr.com | James Eyers |Lucas Baird
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched an inquiry into the ASX, focusing on the sharemarket operator’s risk management and governance after a spate of issues regarding the upgrade of its ageing CHESS settlement system. ASIC chairman Joe Longo said the inquiry provides an opportunity for ASX to bolster market trust. Peter RaeLoading...
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3 weeks ago |
afr.com | Lucas Baird
Jun 6, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Major superannuation funds could see returns from their American investments fall by nearly $3.5 billion over four years under a punitive tax regime that would target countries that the Trump administration deemed to have discriminated against businesses in the United States.
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3 weeks ago |
afr.com | Lucas Baird
Jun 6, 2025 – 11.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? I arrive for lunch looking more pauper than prince – a key distinction given I’m eating with someone who has actually met the King. On this wild, wet and windy Sydney day, however, Aware Super chief executive Deanne Stewart will have to settle for one mildly soaked newspaper hack.
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