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FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Committee (ASIC). The inquiry, chaired by Labor Senator Mark Bishop, grilled ASIC commissioners and CBA executives equally. By the end of the Senate investigation, the reputation and methods ...

SMSF collapses imminent in hunt for yield

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... Aberdeen Asset Management (Aberdeen). Speaking at a media briefing yesterday, Aberdeen head of Australian fixed income Nick Bishop said that investors and SMSF trustees had been given a greater degree of access and empowerment, but this has not been ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... its auto, shipping and aerospace industries. Also, Russia's "reviewing" airspace restrictions. Knight takes pawn. Check! Bishop takes knight. The 'West' and Russia are playing a game of chess that'll ultimate end in a stalemate (only because I could ...

CBA boss to be grilled on Senate report

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... client signatures to facilitate profit-producing product switches. The committee's chairman, retiring Labor senator Mark Bishop, said CBA failed to open its books and fully identify the number of clients affected and those entitled to compensation. He ...

CBA apologies again, refutes reckless culture accusations

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... non-compliance and unlawful activity as long as profits were being made," the Economics Committee chairman Senator Mark Bishop said as the report was tabled in the Senate. "The CBA's compliance regime failed, which not only allowed unscrupulous advisers ...

Investors should take responsibility for themselves: Medcraft

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... register for advisers. We see it as constructive. We'll see what happens." The Senate Economics Committee chair, Senator Mark Bishop confirmed on his Twitter account that the report into ASIC will be tabled today. "Timing uncertain. Most likely between ...

CBA and ASIC "sketchy" info delays inquiry conclusion

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The committee has issued an interim report signed by its chair, Senator Mark Bishop, referring to ASIC and Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) efforts to clarify some inconsistencies in their submissions. According ...

Senate Committee forced to delay tabling of ASIC report

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... the tabling of the report into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The committee's chair Mark Bishop said on Twitter that a two-page interim report delaying the tabling of the final report will be made public later today. The ...

Wake-up call for watchdog after inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... widespread report that will include the industries' black holes and dark corners." The senator and chair of the Committee Mark Bishop told Financial Standard that the report will reflect "the strong impression that the Committee has as to the adequacy ...

ASIC admits wrongdoing in Senate hearing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... earlier," senior executive leader Greg Kirk said. The hearing reached its most dramatic moments when Labor Senator Mark Bishop asked ASIC officials if they knew that CFP was "sanitising" or "doctoring" client files. During the morning, it had become ...