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Medcraft to chair IOSCO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft has been elected chairman of the board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) at the annual conference in Beijing. Medcraft's IOSCO term will begin when current chairman, Masamichi Kono, steps ...

FOFA misses the mark on investment fraud

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... Trio inquiry, Townsend does not believe that regulators or Government fully understand the potential for another fraudulent MIS offering in the future. "Ripoll's reviews of Storm and advice processes etc has built better investor protection around making ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
If you're in Victoria (Australia) and you watch television, chances are you've probably seen Quit Victoria's new anti-smoking ad. I don't know if this is shown in the other states but the ad shows a fretful young dad in a hospital waiting room waiting ...

PJC blasts Trio follow-up

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has expressed strong concern over lack of follow-up from regulators and criminal authorities in the wake of the Trio Capital collapse. In the report on the largest superannuation ...

ASIC moves on insider trading

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
Insider trading and market manipulation charges are on the rise, according to ASIC, which gets 200 trade surveillance alerts indicating unusual trading activity each day. Deputy chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Belinda ...

JPMorgan execs to resign over US$2bn trading loss

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
Three JPMorgan Chase executives will resign this week following a US$2bn trading loss of synthetic credit securities, according to reports out of New York. The Wall Street Journal has named Ina Drew, chief investment officer and head of the risk-management ...

Research houses to step up transparency

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
There have been calls for more transparency and accountability in response to ASIC's consultation paper on the regulation of research report providers and research houses. Released in November last year, Consultation Paper 171, 'Strengthening the regulation ...

Centro MCS proposes DPF wind-up

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
Centro MCS has informed unitholders of the proposed wind up and termination of its Centro Direct Property Fund. The move follows the redemption of more than 93% of units in the Direct Property Fund (DPF) after the Centro group restructured in December ...

Australia eyes Israeli super system

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
Engagement with lifecycling and a better engagement with annuities are two key aspects of the Israeli pension model where Australian super should take note, according to industry heavyweight Jeremy Cooper. Just back from a research trip to Israel led ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
There were really no fresh talking points I could find on cyberspace last night, just a flipping of the flop in sentiment seen over the past few days. For last night we got news that US unemployment claims came in a thousand heads better than expected. ...