
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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afr.com | Lucas Baird
May 29, 2025 – 7.13pm 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 builder Hutchinson says a disgraced CFMEU official’s boast that he could exploit his relationships with $100 billion superannuation fund Cbus to control which contractors get work on its construction sites is garbage.
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afr.com | Lucas Baird
May 27, 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? The corporate regulator has upped its attack on the boards of superannuation funds, which it criticised for being too reliant on outsourcing, and complacent following the failings in death benefit payments.
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afr.com | Lucy Slade |John Kehoe |Joyce Moullakis |Lucas Baird
May 26, 2025 – 7.17am or Subscribe to save article4 mins ago – 7.15AMRussia and Ukraine complete prisoner swap hours after Moscow launches major aerial assaultRussia and Ukraine swapped hundreds more prisoners on Sunday (Monday AEST), the third and last part of a major exchange that reflected a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire in the more than three years of war.
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afr.com | Lucas Baird
May 25, 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 Australian companies and superannuation funds operating in the United States face a 20 per cent tax increases on investments, in a Republican push to retaliate against countries deemed to discriminate against American businesses through measures such as this country’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
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afr.com | Lucas Baird |Carrie LaFrenz |John Kehoe |Michael Stutchbury
Lucas Baird, Carrie LaFrenz, John Kehoe and Michael StutchburyMay 22, 2025 – 7.47pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
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