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ASIC submits broad performance review to Senate inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... priorities and performance. It also describes the regulator's accountability framework, its collaboration with other regulators and law enforcement bodies and its complaints management policies and practices. ASIC also refers to its work with whistle-blowers ...

ASIC funding in spotlight after annual report release

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013

Law firm questions CBA compensation for Nguyen victims

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
Law firm Maurice Blackburn has questioned Commonwealth Bank's compensation to clients affected by inappropriate advice within the bank's financial planning unit given by adviser Don Nguyen. In a submission to the Senate inquiry on the performance of ...

CBA could face legal action over Operation Lantern

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) may have broken the law when commissioning a security firm to conduct Operation Lantern, a surveillance operation on anti-banking lobbyist Michael Fraser. Fraser was followed and photographed by private investigators from ...

Baird proposes tax changes for NSW infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... assets, using the proceeds to start new infrastructure projects which will themselves eventually be privatised. Under current law, tax revenue from a private company involved, for example, in the future construction and operation of the WestConnex tunnel ...

ASIC concedes Trio ringleader investigation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... our overseas regulatory counterparts have sought to obtain extra evidence to establish that Mr Flader breached Australian law. However, despite this work, there is insufficient evidence to prove Mr Flader breached Australian law," the regulator said. ...

Former Bell Potter adviser jailed

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
A former Bell Potter Securities adviser who pleaded guilty to dishonest conduct has been jailed for one year by the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal. Lawson Stuart Donald was found to have used his position as an employee of Bell Potter in a ...

Problem is weak credit law, not us: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... regulatory framework," the submission said. "Our reports on those matters contributed significantly to reforms both of the law and of industry practice." The Senate inquiry is looking into ASIC's performance on a number of matters after whistleblowers ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
Some years back I used to have discussions with several of my gentle readers (you know who you are, gentle folks) about whether or not QE would work, is working, or not. The passage of time since the Fed minted its first QE dollar had proven that it ...

REST appoints new director

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... John Edstein to its board as an employer nominated director. Edstein was a partner for over 20 years at top tier national law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques (subsequently King & Wood Mallesons) where he practised extensively in superannuation and trust ...