Business Definition for: Australian Securities And Investments Commission
an Australian federal government body responsible for regulating Australian businesses and the provision of financial products and services to consumers. It was established in 1989, replacing the Australian Securities Commission.
Mar 03, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Securities & Investments Commission ASIC will scrutinise the use of off-market share buybacks. Many Australian companies have used off-market buybacks to dispose of surplus capital and franking credits. However, they are complex and...
Nov 26, 2001 The Asian Wall Street Journal ABIX via COMTEX -- Stock transactions in Qantas Airways are behind insider trading allegations against Rene Rivkin. The Australian stockbroker is facing charges from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission. QANTAS...
Byline: Fiona Buffini Mar 06, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Corporate regulators in the US may exempt some overseas companies from the US regulatory burden. The chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission SEC, Christopher Cox, has discussed this...
Jun 09, 2005 (Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) Greg Pound has been appointed as director for regulatory affairs by Deloitte. The appointment, which is part-time, will take effect on July 4 2005. Pound is currently chief accountant at the Australian Securities &...
Dec 12, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Rene Rivkin has accused the Australian Securities & Investments Commission of conducting a vendetta against him. The flamboyant Australian stockbroker has been accused of insider trading in Qantas shares. Rivkin bought 50,000...
Byline: Katharine Murphy and Michael McKenna Feb 08, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison has announced extra funding of $A300m for agencies engaged...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. and Australian stock exchanges and brokers could be allowed to operate in each other's countries without being subject to most local regulation, under an agreement between regulators. Wall Street interests praised the announcement of the agreement made Monday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
Byline: Glenda Korporaal May 31, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Tony D'Aloisio has sounded a warning about the potential impact of a slowdown in the Australian economy. The newly appointed chair of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission says it will...
Apr 21, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The HIH Royal Commission has recommended information exchange between Australian regulators be improved. According to Justice Neville Owen, communication between the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority APRA and the Australian Securities & Investments...
Nov 15, 2002 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Government will review the performance of the country's major industry regulators and institutions. Among them are the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Australian Taxation Office, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission,...
Apr 25, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The HIH Royal Commission has not adequately addressed the failures of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission ASIC. The findings clearly highlight the inadequacies of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, but there is no mention...
The Australian securities and Investments Commission ASIC has let off Telstra in an investigation over a possible breach of the securities law. The market regulator has accused the company of briefing the government before informing the common shareholdThe Australian securities and Investments Commission ASIC has let off Telstra in an...
Aug 17, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian regulatory bodies are finding it difficult to attract top personnel. The resignation of David Knott from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ASIC in August 2003 indicates that many executives are finding...
Nov 14, 2002 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Public "watchdogs" in Australia are to be reviewed. On 14 November 2002, the review was announced by the Prime Minister, John Howard. The review will scrutinise the workings of the Australian Taxation Office, the Australian...
Feb 04, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Australia needs meaningful disclosure regulations for fees charged to manage investments. Ian Ramsay, Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne, has warned greater disclosure of fees charged for managed investments is necessary...
Jun 02, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) There was inadequate evidence to gain criminal convictions against Australian businessman, Rodney Adler. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission ASIC told an Australian Senate Estimates Committee hearing that the HIH Royal Commission had...
Byline: Tony Boyd Sep 28, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Banks participating in the third-stage privatisation of Telstra must abide by strict regulatory rules. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission will be handed the "T3" prospectus for ...
Mar 10, 2005 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) Australia will have more time to put its case for concessions from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The US Securities & Exchange Commission has given foreign companies an extra year to comply with the Act. The deadline for...
Dec 11, 2002 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is investigating the National Telecoms Group's accounts. The re-seller of telecommunications services, which has had its shares suspended from trading, is also the subject of investigations by Australia's ...
Oct 01, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Two Australian regulators have announced plans to launch legal action against real estate marketeer, Henry Kaye. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission ASIC will pursue Kaye, and his company National Investments Institute NII,...
