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Regulators discuss streamlining some supervision operations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... Inquiry and eight years after the creation of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the bodies are in discussions about how to streamline some aspects of their supervision ...

Adviser jailed for five and a half years

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... client money. Shane Hoy was sentenced to five and a half years jail by the Brisbane District Court after an Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation into his company, B G Investments, which is currently in liquidation. The ASIC ...

Beware of hedge risk: Deloitte

... require an Australian financial services licence (AFSL) and, depending on structure, may be regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). By contrast, the US courts are blocking attempts by the regulator, the Securities and ...

ASIC pleased with insurance industry

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has released a report examining the improvements home building insurers have made to their policies and whether they are providing customers with better access to information about the costs ...

Perth adviser faces jail over $1.5m fraud

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
... adviser has had 12 new charges added to the 33 charges he was already facing over a $1.5 million fraud. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) brought the 12 new charges against Antonio Pisano in Perth Magistrates Court yesterday ...

ASIC takes SMSF site offline

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... operating a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) has been taken offline after an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Online Super Legal agreed to shut down its website after ASIC raised concerns it was operating ...

ASIC updates court on Westpoint progress

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
The Federal Court in Perth yesterday received an update from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) on its investigations into the Westpoint collapse in support of ASIC's bid to extend the freezing of assets of key Westpoint figures. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd will host its half year results, and Nare Diamonds will list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Yesterday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 16.1 points at a record 5,591.50, and all ordinaries ...

Westpoint Recovery Fund still in pursuit

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... directors of Westpoint. It also intended to pursue auditors KPMG and would eventually "vigorously pursue" the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for what Bristow said was its part in the fiasco. "Despite ASIC threatening people previously ...

Company directors arrested on theft charges

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... $930,000 from investors. Victorian Police executed warrants for the arrest of Shaun and Nicole White after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) obtained warrants relating to the pair's involvement in the alleged theft of $930,000 ...