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Stop orders placed on property funds

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
... were the Australian Residential Property (ARP) Fund and Private Property Trust No.20. The orders prevent the responsible entities of the funds from issuing interest in, giving a product disclosure statement for or providing general advice to retail clients ...

ASIC concerns see 18 funds update advertising materials

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
... disclaimers related to performance and downplaying of risks, leading 13 providers to make amendments. To date, 13 responsible entities or trustees have voluntarily updated their marketing materials across 18 managed funds, ASIC said. This includes nine ...

ASIC releases CCIV guidelines

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2022
... for corporate directors, and financial resource requirements for licensees that are corporate directors and responsible entities". ASIC said it will now accept re-lodgment of certain proof documents and acknowledged that some AFS licensees with an interest ...

ASIC releases estimate cost recovery levies for 2021/22

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... indicative minimum levy of $18,000 plus $17.85 per $1 million of assets above the $250 million threshold. Responsible entities and wholesale entities were appraised budgeted cost recovery amounts of $20.75 million and $5.8 million respectively. The 426 ...

ASIC consults on refreshing PDSs, FSGs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
... instruments that relate to shorter PDSs and PDS obligations for superannuation trustees, IDPS operators and responsible entities of IDPS-like schemes into one new instrument. Stakeholders from superannuation trustees, platform operators, responsible ...

ASIC exposes RE structure conflicts of interest

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
... the $1.5 trillion managed funds sectors' responsible entity structures. ASIC's review of 10 major responsible entities found potential conflicts of interest arise at the board and staffing levels, particularly within a large group. The report ...

ASIC smooths path for crypto ETFs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... practice. The regulator has also introduced a new 'crypto-asset' category in the licensing application for responsible entities. "Crypto-assets have unique characteristics and risks that must be considered by product issuers and market operators in meeting ...

Funds valued illiquid asset correctly: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... fund managers on how they handled valuing illiquid assets at the height of COVID-19. ASIC found that the responsible entities of the funds were responsive to the increased valuation risks during its review period of 1 March and early November 2020. "They ...

Another cash ETF bites the dust

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... iShares's $437 million core cash and $230 million enhanced cash. In recent years ASIC has forced funds and responsible entities to justify their use of "cash" in fund names if they are investing outside of it.

ASIC looks to tighten crypto ETP oversight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... appropriate compensation scheme is in place in the event things go awry. In terms of disclosure, ASIC is proposing responsible entities disclose market risk, pricing risk, immutability, increased regulation risk, custody risk, cyber risk and environmental ...