Showing posts with label Bill Shorten. Show all posts
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Thursday, 30 August 2012

Phoenix fund's future going Dodo

IT'S hard to know which is more mythical. The Phoenix – feathered metaphor for perpetual renewal - or successful applications to the Assetless Administration Fund (AAF). 

Launched in 2005 and administered by ASIC, the AAF has been a source of diminishing assistance in recent years.

In 2009/2010, ASIC doled out $3.17 million to insolvency practitioners with no cash and grounds for investigation. The following year they had to manage with $2.84 million. That shrank to $2.16 million in the year just past. AAF allocations prior to 2009/2010 are not made public.