Finance

Many international dealmakers now believe ESG is a key consideration when making investment and M&A decisions. 

Verve Super will become the first Australian superannuation fund to direct its investments towards companies that perform well on gender equality measures.

Employers will be required to pay their workers a higher rate of superannuation from July 1 under legislated changes to super.

Hardworking or not, Australians on more than $200,000 are rare. And an awful lot of them don’t work at all.

COSBOA encourages the Fair Work Commission to consider supporting a stable employment regime through a minimal increase in the award-based minimum and associated wages.

Melbourne-based drinks business Mighty Craft has announced plans to buy South Australian producers Adelaide Hills Distillery, Mismatch Brewing and Hills Cider in a deal worth $47 million.

The data — leaked by an anonymous source — is American, but this kind of thing happens in Australia too, UNSW associate professor Ann Kayis-Kumar explained.

The Australian Taxation Office has switched on its new online services platform for SMEs and will soon retire the business portal it is replacing. 

The latest GDP data shows business investment in equipment and machinery grew at its fastest rate since 2009.

A Sydney-based tax agent has had her registration cancelled, after the regulator found she filed 43 JobKeeper applications without her clients' permission.