JAMES SHIPTON

Funds management

The former ASIC chair has penned an open letter to the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer asking for their support following a Senate appearance that detailed work, health...

People & Products

Former ASIC chair, James Shipton, has joined share trading and superannuation platform Superhero as a non-executive director....

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People & Products

The Government has appointed Joe Longo as its chair, replacing James Shipton....

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Policy & Regulation

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

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Policy & Regulation

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...

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Financial planning

The cost of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority functions may yet add to the ASIC levy paid by financial advisers....

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Policy & Regulation

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...

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Features

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...

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Policy & Regulation

The Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, made his decision on Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton’s future based on Treasury legal advice on w...

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Policy & Regulation

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

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Financial planning

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been criticised for ‘stalling’ over the tenure of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton following an expe...

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Policy & Regulation

Documents provided to a Parliamentary Committee have revealed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission paid a top tier legal firm for an independent opinion o...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has effectively encouraged parliamentarians to cite any specific instances of the regulator’s personnel briefing the ...

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Policy & Regulation

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...

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Policy & Regulation

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

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