APRA yesterday released a draft guide on transferring a member's benefit from one superannuation fund to another without their consent. The interpretation adopted provides minimal protection to superannuation fund members. ...

The privatisation of State-owned companies SOEs known as equitisation in Vietnam continues to be high on the Vietnamese Governments agenda as it continues to move towards a more market-driven economy and seeks to raise much needed capital to address the State budget deficit However to date progress ...

The ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce members and terms of reference have been announced The terms of reference are very broad and come as no surprise with an emphasis on evaluating the adequacy of ASICs enforcement toolkit We analyse the key themes that are likely to emerge ...

Dismissing employees whether for under-performance or misconduct has always been a difficult task in Vietnam given the strongly pro-employee labour legislation However the Government has recently issued new legislation in an attempt to level the playing field and create a clearer avenue for ...

Partners David Donnelly and Nicholas Ng examine public-private partnerships PPPs in Australia including the year in review the general framework bidding and award procedures recent decisions and the outlook for 2015 ...

The Federal Court has awarded a substantial penalty of $500,000 against a franchisor that had contravened both the Australian Consumer Law and the Franchising Code of Conduct ...

The recent settlement of the Great Southern class action raises a number of interesting and important issues not only because the court took the unusual step of publishing its reasons for judgment after the settlement had been announced ...

New tax legislation has been introduced to Parliament that contains tax concessions for employees of small start-up companies who are granted employee shares and options Partner Sarah Bernhardt and Senior Associate Shaun Cartoon members of Allens Accelerate team report ...

Hands up if you tuned in to the Financial System Inquirys discussion of bank capital - but felt you didnt really understand the basics well enough to follow it closely To paraphrase one of our numerous recent prime ministers this article is here to help ...

Sensible changes have been proposed to the taxation of employee share schemes in the new tax legislation before parliament. ...