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Investors vulnerable as property schemes shirk risk disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... vehicles for such people, but they do carry risks as well as opportunities," Tanzer said. "When schemes aren't adequately disclosing those risks, investors are put in a vulnerable position." In March 2012 ASIC introduced benchmarks that unlisted property ...

ASX200 companies 'poor' on gender diversity disclosure

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... disclosures surrounding gender diversity were rated as 'excellent' and 19% as 'good'. The rest were "poor or generally non-disclosing." Perpetual and Westpac were the only two financial services companies who had 'excellent' gender diversity disclosure. ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... year that will demand super funds to disclose publicly all, or at least the majority, of their holdings. This includes disclosing the individual assets held by managed funds in which the super fund is invested. Private equity, infrastructure, unlisted ...

ASIC warns fund managers to fix fee disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... underlying investment vehicles within funds were simply not being disclosed. It also found instances of incorrectly disclosing fees net of tax and inconsistent disclosure of performance fees. The report identified a need to provide further guidance from ...

ATO closing in on undisclosed offshore income

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... financial institutions, advisers and thousands of people over the coming months," he said. Under Project DO IT, people disclosing their offshore assets will generally be assessed for the last four years, be liable for a maximum shortfall penalty of 10% ...

Portfolio disclosure's unintended consequences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... the problem is not that private equity managers don't want to disclose this information to their investors, it's that disclosing this information on public websites of super funds would force them to declare which private companies they could be preparing ...

Government agnostic on portfolio holdings disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
... publicly disclose all their investments down to the underlying assets. Under the current proposals, this would mean disclosing the underlying assets owned, for example, by managed investment schemes in which the super fund has invested. Super funds would ...

ASIC puts stop order on misleading Trilogy PDS

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... advertising of the two funds misleadingly used headline rates of return, and compared themselves to other funds without disclosing the differences between them. ASIC also expressed concern over "use of ratings statements without providing adequate details ...

ASIC to focus on analyst briefings

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... issued a revised Guidance Note 8, which assists listed entities to understand their disclosure obligations and requires disclosing market sensitive information to the ASX. "All investors - large and small- should have access to equal information from ...

StatewideSuper withdrawn from SelectingSuper assessment

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... group. Research director, Alex Dunnin, said the withdrawal of the quality assessment is due to Statewide Super no longer disclosing information to the Rainmaker group and in those circumstances the information group is unable to support its quality assessment ...