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Policy & Regulation

ASIC chair probed on governance review of regulator

The corporate regulator’s new chair, Joe Longo, believes that reading the publicly available report of the regulator’s governance practices is sufficient and has not aske...

Policy & Regulation

How ASIC executives paid $33,000 to a team-building consultancy

Faced with rebuilding its management culture in the wake of the expenses controversy surrounding its chairman and deputy chairman, the Australian Securities and Investmen...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC's Shipton confirms retaining top legal team

The chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has temporarily returned to his role heading up the regulator but only after retaining the services o...

Policy & Regulation

Should the industry be paying for ASIC’s policy advice to Govt?

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is recouping millions of dollars from the industry to pay for the provision of policy advice to Government. Should th...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC scheduled to be back in the Parliamentary committee hot seat

Tough questions are awaiting the Australian Securities and Investments Commission when it fronts the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services ...

Editorial

You want to reduce advice costs? Then reduce regulation

If the Government seriously wants to make financial advice more affordable then it needs to conduct a thorough review to strip out the layers of regulation which have dri...

Features

InFocus: Is it time to impose external oversight on ASIC?

Mike Taylor writes that in the aftermath of the Thom Review into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission the Government has the opportunity to impose externa...

Policy & Regulation

Shipton to depart ASIC

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, James Shipton has been cleared of any wrongdoing but has agreed to leave the regulator....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC reveals Crennan documents

The documents attaching to the rental allowance controversy which led up to the resignation of Australian Securities and Investments Commission deputy chair, Daniel Crenn...

Policy & Regulation

Keeping it verbal: Why a behavioural report on ASIC management is not available

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission retained the services of a special behavioural analysis firm to observe meetings of its leadership team but is claimi...

Policy & Regulation

Troubled ASIC faces imposition of external board

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission faces being oversighted by an external board as the Government considers ways of avoiding further controversies such ...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC’s Chester claims chair Shipton was 'opaque' on expenses

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission acting chair, Karen Chester has claimed the stood-aside chair, James Shipton, had been “opaque” in informing fellow c...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC and its leadership structure under Parliamentary scrutiny

A key Parliamentary Committee has flagged it will today be giving specific attention to the future structure of Australia’s financial services regulators in the aftermath...

Outsider

Graceful or not. Who exited fastest in 2020?

As this is the last print edition of Money Management for 2020 but Christmas is still some weeks off, Outsider thought he would start a new tradition – The Rapid Exit Awa...

Editorial

ASIC needs to be a regulator, not a revenue centre

The standing aside of Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, James Shipton, points to fundamental issues with respect to the regulator....