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ASIC withdraws property fund licence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
Devgroup will wind up four property funds after ASIC revoked its financial services licence for failing to resolve ongoing breaches of licence conditions. The fund manager had been unable to meet net tangible assets and reporting obligations under the ...

Shorten unveils advisory panel

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Bill Shorten, the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, has unveiled a new financial advisory panel to help with the Government's Future of Financial Advice reforms. "The Panel will play a key role in lifting the level of professional ...

ASIC cracks down on CFD trading

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
ASIC has turned its attention to over-the-counter contracts for difference (CFDs), and is calling for improved product disclosure to help retail investors understand the highly leveraged derivative products they trade. The corporate regulator released ...

CFD health check prompts more oversight

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
The regulator has stepped up its monitoring of the contract for difference (CFD) market and proposed new measures to improve the market's transparency, following a study that found consumers are still confused about the risks when trading CFDs. The ...

Gunns freezes MIS offerings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
Gunns Limited, which owns the Responsible Entity of several Great Southern schemes, flagged it will not be making any MIS offers this financial year. Gunns Limited owns Gunns Plantations - the responsible entity for the 1998 - 2006 Great Southern pulpwood ...

ASF names former S&P head as CEO

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
The Australian Securitisation Forum has appointed former Standard & Poor's managing director, Chris Dalton, as chief executive. Dalton replaces Greg Medcraft, who was appointed commissioner at Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The RMBS market is in danger of collapsing and - without government intervention - consumers may be left at the mercy of the big banks as the only remaining mortgage lenders. "The RMBS market is dying on the vine," said Greg Medcraft, chief executive ...

Super funds to resurrect ailing RMBS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
Investor interest in Australian residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) has dropped from $45 billion last year to virtually zero early this year - but a model overhaul and cash injection from super funds could pull the sector out of the doldrums. ...

ASF appoints exec director

Australia's representative body for the securitisation industry, the Australian Securitisation Forum (ASF), has appointed Greg Medcraft as executive director. Prior to his appointment, Medcraft was the managing director and global head of securitisation ...