James Paterson

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

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 ...

Superannuation

ACTU accuses Govt over early release super

The Government has a hatred of superannuation and is encouraging people to take early access to their superannuation simply to protect the Budget bottom line, according t...

Superannuation

Was ISA inflating its super release impact figures?

Government Senators are claiming vindication because a senior Treasury official has suggested Industry Super Australia may have used inappropriate data to inflate the imp...

Policy & Regulation

Don’t rely on our audit inspection reports says ASIC

The audit industry has been delivered a reasonably favourable assessment by a key Parliamentary Committee because the Australian Securities and Investments Commission sai...

Policy & Regulation

Is Frydenberg being equivocal on 12% SG?

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has stopped short of restating the Government’s promise to increase the superannuation guarantee, preferring to say that it has no ...