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Productivity Commission identifies priority reform areas

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... interim reports will be delivered over July and August. The PC will then conduct further consultation to inform the final inquiry reports to be delivered to government in December.

What Labor's second term means for regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... Better Financial Outcomes 2 (DBFO) and unfair trading prohibition. The election also upended the highly anticipated public inquiry into the failures of Dixon Advisory, which was slated to provide a report by the last sitting day of March 2025. The Financial ...

New ACCC chief named

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... of the ACCC's work across telecommunications, rail, ports, airports, electricity and gas as well as the 2023 Childcare Inquiry. Proudfoot was appointed executive general manager of the ACCC's National Anti-Scam Centre in August 2024 and has been acting ...

UK watchdog to open Australian office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... head of compliance for Westpac's institutional bank. In 2014, she was a principal advisor for Treasury's Financial System Inquiry, after which she made the leap to the UK to join the Central Bank of Ireland's policy and risk team. Her appointment is ...

Jones clarifies scope of new class of adviser

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... backstop, de facto capital, stable investment product that the scheme guarantees,'" he said. The Senate Economics Committee Inquiry into Wealth Management Companies (CSLR and Dixon Advisory) has been deferred from March 27 to July 28 - a four-month delay. ...

ASIC recommends standards for virtual AGMs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has provided Treasury with a report after conducting an inquiry into companies holding virtual AGMs. As part of the report, the regulator made five recommendations, including that ASIC and ...

Treasury responds to CHESS replacement inquiry

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
Treasury has released its response following the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services report, Competition in clearing and settlement and the ASX CHESS Replacement Project: The CHESS Replacement Project is too important ...

GCQ enters ETF market, expands sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... ETF always figured in our longer-term thinking, we brought forward our planned launch date due to the level of inbound inquiry." GCQ is further beefing up its distribution team with the appointment of Adam Philippe, who joins as distribution director ...

Oaktree offers Star $650m lifeline

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... "governance and cultural concerns" plaguing the casino operator. In November 2024 the Queensland government launched its own inquiry examining potential criminal links at the casino. Late last year Perpetual halved its investment in the casino operator ...

Senate calls to overhaul super fund boards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
The Senate Economics Committee has released its third interim report as part of the inquiry into Australia's retirement system. Senate Economics Committee chair Senator Andrew Bragg said the third report is focused around the "shocking governance ...